There is a reason why each team in Major League Baseball has a group of farm teams that play in the minor leagues.   It is because the young players on their squads need a place where they can play every day and learn the game.  But baseball is only a game.  What happens when we elect a president who isn't ready for the big leagues?   To understand the answer to a question like this, we need look no further than Barack Obama.

When people criticize this president because he isn't demonstrating a sense of command all he and his administration hear is that he is being too aloof and he needs to show some emotion.  Emotional demonstrations are not what we need.  We need a sense that the president has command over the problem.  

No one would belittle his attention toward the NCAA Champs, the MLS Champs, seven rounds of golf or six days of vacation if they thought that he had people in control of the Gulf Crisis.   We would not even belittle his Paul McCartney Concert...well, hold that, this is a powerful problem to the president and would be under any circumstance but it has been made more so because of the timing.  Once again the administration had a guest in the White House from a foreign country who inserted himself into American politics and insulted a prior head of state.   Bad comedy makes Obama look more like Nero than ever.  McCartney was crass and impolite and his behavior was far less than should be expected from a knighted English subject.   This was not only an insult to this country but an embarrassment to the English monarchy and all her subjects.  

All these distractions point more strongly toward a reality that cannot be denied.  There is truly no one that is totally in control of the crisis in the Gulf.  When FDR was president he was faced with a world at war.   What did he do?  He placed a man named Dwight David Eisenhower in command of all armies in Europe.   FDR supported Eisenhower by pushing manufacturing, pushing American citizens and pushing himself to get Eisenhower the boats, the troops, the fuel and the armaments he needed to cross the Channel and then win the war.  Eisenhower then took command of these resources and assigned missions to all his direct reports.   These officers executed their missions and reported back to Eisenhower.  He in turn kept FDR aware of his status and his continuing needs.   

Obama can't be an Eisenhower any more than FDR could have been the commander himself.  FDR wasn't trained for that command.  He was mature enough however to understand that he had to assign this job to someone like Eisenhower and provide for his needs.   This is what Obama doesn't understand.   He only knows how to make speeches and feign emotion.  He is truly not ready for the Big Leagues.