Obama’s Failing: Too Much Head, Too Little Gut

Posted 109 days 20 hrs 47 min ago

Liberals have long sought the professorial president. But Barack Obama is coming to betray some of the vices of that virtue.

This president appears too much brain and too little gut. Prof-in-chief has his drawbacks. The decision to send the confessed Sept. 11 mastermind to the civilian criminal court system was defensible in the academy. But it should have failed any seasoned pol’s gut check. This crime was, after all, taken as an act of war.