The defense that the main stream-State run media and the White House plays is that all the previous President's had 'czars' or 'advisors'.  Here's what seem most authentic when referring to the age old question: who started this Czar business: 

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977549415

"The newly benign term evolved again during World War II, when Roosevelt expanded the government rapidly and appointed a host of brand-new federal overseers. The Washington Post reported in 1942 on the sudden rush of "executive orders creating new czars to control various aspects of our wartime economy," and a cartoon from that year shows "czar of prices" Leon Henderson, "czar of production" Donald Nelson, and "czar of ships" Emory S. Land all cramming onto one throne.

In the postwar era, the rise of the "czar" has accompanied the expanding role of the executive office in promoting policy initiatives; the term tends to be used when presidents create special new posts for the individuals charged with pushing those initiatives through. Nixon succumbed to czarmania, appointing the first "drug czar," Jerome Jaffe, in 1971 (long before William Bennett took the mantle in 1988). But it was the title of "energy czar" that got the most attention during those days of OPEC embargoes and gas rationing. Though John A. Love first held the title in 1973, his more powerful successor William E. Simon really got the "czar" ball rolling. Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau found the "czar" title fitting, depicting Simon imperiously asking for his "signet ring and hot wax." Simon, for his part, enjoyed the sendup and took pleasure in colleagues calling him "your czarship."

    According to Fox News latest count, President Obama has again...32 Czars...he was down to 31 yesterday with the resignation of Van Jones.  So why we ask ourselves, does Barack Obama need all of these 'czars' and/or advisers ?   I asked myself that too today and the little light bulb inside my brain flickered momentarily and 'of course, that's it'.  

    Why do people do the things they do dear reader?  We do it because of our influences over a lifetime be it family, friends, education, experience.   We reach our conclusions by processing in our brain housing group, information to come up with an answer to our questions.  Is it not true to say that 'we are products of our environment'? 

    Let us look at our President, and the impressionable periods: 

http://www.biography.com/articles/Barack-Obama-12782369

Article text in Times New Roman, B.E.V. comment in italics. 

Meantime, Barack's father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya pursue his dreams in Hawaii. At the time of his birth, Obama's parents were students at the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father went to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies and then returned to Kenya.

    Divorce has a very profound and confusing affect upon children.

His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language.

Four years later when Barack (commonly known throughout his early years as "Barry") was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother (who died of ovarian cancer in 1995).

   The school President Obama attended was a public school with a majority of muslim children.  The school itself was not a muslim school or madrasa, but to fit in, one sometimes has to mimic the majority in order to reduce intimidation by peers, especially among children.  But here again, during the formative years, severe 'change' afflicts young Barack with instability of a home life and the worse thing that can happen to a child who is old and cognizant enough to understand, the death of a mother.

  He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. He was only one of three black students at the school. This is where Obama first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be an African-American.

   Again, a profound period upon a person during very formative years of one's life.  Often, by one's teen years, we are able to withstand many pressures, but as well, seek something to soften and deter the onslaught of daily displeasure's. 

In his memoir, Obama described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He saw his biological father (who died in a 1982 car accident) only once (in 1971) after his parents divorced. And he admitted using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.           Drugs and alcohol use, used as escapism.

After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.

After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's South Side.

It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna c. laude in 1991.

After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer.....

   When are the most impressionable times in one's life dear reader?  Age 3 -5, 10 -15, 18 -25.  It seems during those years in one's life, we have experiences and learning curves that affect our lives greatly which maps us for our entire future.



 Heavy personal influences:

Obama and Frank Marshall Davis

Frank Marshall Davis was identified only as Frank in Obama's memories Dreams from My Father. Davis, a radical activist and journalist had been suspected of being a member of the Communist Party in the 1950s. He was a friend of Stanley Dunhman, fObama's maternal grandfather. According to Toby Harnden, writing in the Telegraph, (Aug. 24, 2008), Obama lived with his white grandparents and was introduced to Davis in 1970 at age 10. In his memories, Obama recounts how he visited Davis several times when he was grappling with racial issues. In 1968, Davis published a hard-core pornographic autobiography under a pseudonym.

Obama and Reverend Wright

Reverend Jeremiah Wright is among four people who influenced Obama life in Chicago, according to an article in the print edition of the CBS News, by Andrew McCarthy, "The Bad Company of Barack Obama", (April 13, 2008). Rev. Wright is known as an unapologetic racist and hard Left advocate. Obama cites Wright in his inspirational memoir, The Audacity of Hope, the title taken from one of Rev. Wright's sermons. Wright inspired his congregation, of which Obama was a 20-year-member, with "black liberation theology". Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. The task of the black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the Black community. Rev. Wright married Michelle and Barak Obama and baptized their children.

Obama Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn

Bill Ayers had been indicted for bombing the Pentagon on May 19, 1972 as well as the U. S. Capitol, the State Department, banks, police stations and courthouses. He told the New York Times on September 11, 2001, "I don't regret setting bombs." Obama, then a "community organizer", made his announcement about running for office in 1995 in the home of Ayers and Dohrn. In 1997, he made a joint appearance with Ayers on a University of Chicago Panel, both of them being invited by Michelle Obama, the Associate Dean of Students Services. Among the many other times that the paths of the two men crossed was when serving on another panel together in 2002.

Obama and Rashid Khaldi

During the the years that Ayers and Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charitable organization, they voted to donate $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a long time supporter of Palestinian "resistance" attacks against Israel. He has been accused of being an influential apologist for Yasser Arafat. At the University of Illinois, Khaldi and Obama and Michelle Obama and also Ayers and Dohrn were part of the same circle. He funded a fund raiser for Obama in 2000 when Obama ran an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. House of Representatives. 

 ( B.E.V. back in New Times Roman font)

    So what motivates a man to name so many Czars?  Psychiatrist and Psychologist may or may not agree with B.E.V.'s assessment here, but is it not the influences that affect the decisions we make?  In the case of Obama appointing so many Czars, one Czar for almost every aspect of our entire Governmental and Private enterprise system.  Because, of all of those influences, Barack Obama does not trust anyone within the established systems of Government and Private business.  He has a deep held belief inside that all of these people currently in charge of every aspect of Government and private business to be the cause of all of his displeasure's while growing up.  It's his goal to replace as many if not all with people he alone trust, has the same 'radical' social and political views, and/or can control.  This is not going to change at all, despite the resignation of Van Jones. 

   His speech today at the AFL-CIO picnic event is 'action speaking louder than words'.  Instead of enjoying time with his family, instead of a surprise visit to the troops or their families at a base, instead of going somewhere non-confrontational but supportive of the American way of life, he chose to go to a group that is quasi socialist in it's existence and practices and supportive of Obama's subliminal socialist agenda.  The Czars, and Health Care, are all designed to 'control' freedom of choice, the very base of the American way of life.