Noonan: A Bush League President

PEGGY NOONAN, who voted for Obama, writes another devastating column in the Wall Street Journal. A few quotes: 

 He looks pleasant but lacks joy; he's cool but lacks vigor. A lot of what he says could have been said by a president 12 or 20 years ago, little is anchored to the moment. As he makes his points he often seems distracted, as if he's holding a private conversation in his head, noticing crowd size, for instance, and wishing the front row would start fainting again, like they used to.......

 How odd to have a Democratic president who doesn't seem to like humans all that much....

 It is still so surprising that a person who seems bored by politicking has risen to the highest political office in the land.......

  All of this looks so bush league, so scattered. Add it to the General Services Administration, to Solyndra, to the other scandals, and you get a growing sense that no one's in charge, that the administration is paying attention to politics but not day-to-day governance.....

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