Real men are protectors.
Our professorial president is no feckless W., biking through Katrina. He is no doubt on top of the crisis in terms of studying it top to bottom. But his inner certainty creates an outer disconnect.
He’s so sure of himself and his actions that he fails to see that he misses the moment to be president — to be the strong father who protects the home from invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments.
—Maureen Dowd, “Captain Obvious Learns the Limits of Cool”, The New York Times, January 9, 2010 (available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/opinion/10dowd.html).
