No, not inappropriate.
I don’t particularly care for this president or agree with him on most matters of major policy (or any other president, for that matter). But it’s important for all Americans to realize that “The President does not ‘run the country’; he doesn’t even ‘run the government’. All he does is command the executive branch of the federal government.” (And that federal government should be much smaller and less intrusive than it is.)
There is relatively little that the president can do about the economy (thank God) and next to nothing that he can do about Libya (as if he cares to) or Japan (as much as he would like to) or any of the various other occurrences around the world. The president’s job is to appoint and support a team of players, from economic advisors to military commanders and spy agencies, to name a few, who do their jobs to do what they can do in their own spheres of influence and control.
It’s better to have him picking brackets and showing a sometimes panicky nation that “life goes on”. I expect to see him on the White House lawn rolling Easter eggs with kindergarten children ere long. These are the things that he does best, and that I agree with him on.
I’m not saying a word about his picks, though.