Interestingly enough this isn’t the first time we’ve heard reports of Barack Obama’s deteriorating condition. Gawker reported in September that the New York Times was working on a story about the president possibly being depressed.

Now we’re hearing he’s basically ignoring his cabinet, speaking with only a few close aides behind the scenes, and ending his workdays early. Cabinet secretaries are reportedly angry that they’re getting little face time with him, and even advisers aren’t sure what he does after he ends work for the day.

 The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.

Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.

The president’s workdays are said to end early, often at 4 p.m. He usually has dinner in the family residence with his wife and daughters, then retreats to a private office. One person said he takes a stack of briefing books. Others aren’t sure what he does.

Any reason to believe it? Well, yeah. See, we already knew he was skimping on face time with cabinet members. New York Magazine already reported, via MSNBC, that it took Obama two years before he met with a half-dozen cabinet members.

What’s going on? The man has never held a real job in his life. He went from theories in college to political activist to legislator. Now he’s been thrown into the world’s most stressful job and he can’t handle it — just as conservatives predicted would happen to the inexperienced senator from ACORN.

He’s watching his presidency circle the drain, his Solyndra and Fast & Furious scandals are seeing light, the electorate is looking for a new guy, and he has nothing to offer except the same tired and failed policies no one outside his core base wants. We’re watching him come to grip with reality and it’s not pretty.