The apotheosis of stupid.

As I contemplate Mr. Obama’s being the legal and actual commander in chief of our armed forces, my mind resembles a roaring V8 engine with the throttle wide open and the clutch in neutral, obscuring the driveway down to the mailbox with great billowing clouds of blue smoke shooting out the exhaust.

Evidence of activity but no useful work.

How is it that we managed to elect as the president of the United States, no less, a man who grovels before a Saudi king -- in particular one who presides over the export of pustular Wahhabism (but I repeat myself) -- and thinks that a nuclear arsenal in this age is a superfluity?

President Obama wants all nuclear weapons to be eliminated in every country. The Russians cannot believe their ears. Is he stupid? Does he understand what he is saying? American military power sits on a nuclear foundation, and the U.S. president wants to remove the foundation? This catches the Kremlin short. Perhaps it’s a trick. . . . Whatever happened to presidents like John F. Kennedy, who championed a stronger nuclear arsenal?

"Finding the right Tune." By J.R. Nyquist, Financial Sense Online, 7/10/09.