Mark Steyn does it again

Gulf War Three - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

Great article worth the few minutes it takes to read. But he describes B Hussein Obama perfectly in the first two paragraphs.

Gulf War Three

Thank goodness, the president has directed BP to order up some new tackle and connect it to the thingummy next to the whachamacallit.

I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet he is always, reliably, consistently mediocre. His speech on oil was no better or worse than his speech on race. Yet the Obammyboppers who once squealed with delight are weary of last year’s boy band. At the end of the big Oval Office address, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the rest of the MSNBC gang jeered the president. For a bewildered Obama, it must have felt like his Ceausescu balcony moment. Had they caught up with him in the White House parking lot, they’d have put him up against the wall and clubbed him to a pulp with Matthews’s no longer tingling leg....

I was drawn to the point made by of all people Maureen Dowd.

...The Times’s Maureen Dowd deplored his “bloodless quality” and “emotional detachment.” This is the same Maureen Dowd who in 2009 hailed the new presidency with a column titled “Spock At The Bridge” — and she meant it as a compliment. Back then, this administration was supposed to be the new technocracy — cool, calm, and credentialed chaps who would sit down, use their mighty intellects to provide a rigorous, post-partisan, forensic analysis of the problem, and then break for their Vanity Fair photo shoot.

My answer to that Maureen is Mr Spock from the alternative universe in Mirror, Mirror, "I do not desire the captaincy. I much prefer my scientific duties. I am frankly content to be a lesser target."

In English Maureen, the cool, calm, and credentialed chaps are great specalist, but they don't belong sitting in the center seat.