Other recipients: “Special Ed” Schultz of MSNBC, Newsweek and Daily Beast owner Tina Brown, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

They also name John Boehner, though their explanation focuses on blasting his politics and base rather than really explaining why the Speaker of the House is one of the least influential. The man has stopped Barack Obama’s lefty agenda cold turkey.

Obama comes in at number 25, and unsurprisingly their entry goes on about how he’s refusing to do the awesome things he could do, you know, if the rest of America outside of Berkeley disappeared tomorrow.

Okay, so we’re cheating a bit with this one. He did order the raid that wiped Osama bin Laden off the face of the earth. But then he used that surplus of political capital to let everyone in Washington stick a boot in his ass. This is a man who should be the most transformational figure of the century. Hell, he promised to be that. Instead he wields all the power of a substitute teacher at night school.

As inclined as I am to side with GQ when they name Obama one of the least influential people, they’re just wrong here. Not about the fact he’s far less influential than presidents usually are, but instead with the idea that he could use the Osama capital to ram through his agenda.

First of all, he doesn’t have Osama capital outside of credentials in the war on terrorism. No one outside of the progressive caucus is going to fall for “let’s pass even bigger government policies because he ordered Osama’s killing back in May”. Not gonna happen. The same bump in the polls he got? Long gone. Voters are looking for a new president, not rallying around the incumbent.

Second, he has no choice in how he yields his powers these days. He long ago chose to pursue a far-left agenda. He long ago threw it all in for the extreme left, so much so that he’s now tied to those failed policies no matter what he does. He would have to admit he was wrong and change course. Until then he can’t even get the full support of his own party’s caucus, much less enact transformational policies. And even if he changed course…that wouldn’t be what GQ would want. They want more of the same. Not gonna happen.