Joe Klein, in an otherwise decent column:
There is the fear that he won’t have the strength to stand up to the Israelis (or the Iranians) or to the left wing of his party on health care or to the porkers on the defense budget. On the other hand, there are three dead Somali pirates who attest to this President’s ability to make tough decisions in a timely fashion.
Somali pirates are not the scariest menace evah and Obama is not the greatest American hero for authorizing Navy Seals to attempt a rescue (as John has pointed out before). It starts with gushing over a president’s ability to outwit a band of teen-aged pirates and it ends with awe over a flight suit that makes “the best of his manly characteristic“.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
(And if Joe Klein thinks that the “left wing of his party” is the 800 pound gorilla in the health care room, he’s a bigger idiot than I thought.)