UNLIKE, SAY, PUTIN: Bob Corker: Obama ‘uncomfortable’ as commander in chief.

The senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said President Obama is “uncomfortable” in his role as commander in chief and that his awkwardness has damaged his standing internationally and on Capitol Hill.

Tennessee’s Sen. Bob Corker told CNN Wednesday that while Obama is a “very confident person” in interpersonal settings, his effectiveness as a communicator — as seen the previous evening when he addressed the nation on Syria — fails on larger audiences.

“He just cannot follow through,” the senator said. “He cannot speak to the nation as a commander in chief. He cannot speak to the world as a commander in chief. He just cannot do it. And I don’t know what it is.”

Plus: “He is a diminished figure here on Capitol Hill. I can assure you of that.”

Related: Congressional Outreach: White House cancels picnic for Congress.

ED DRISCOLL ON THE BLOOMBERG BACKLASH. I’ve been very hard on Bloomberg’s nanny-state instincts, but one of my Wall Street readers wrote me once to say that, yes, all that was true — but that Bloomberg was still so much better than the pathetic courthouse hacks who would take power in his absence. This appears to be entirely correct.

AT THIS POINT, JIMMY CARTER ISN’T EVEN A PLAUSIBLE BEST-CASE SCENARIO: Obama fails Lincoln lesson on Syria.

ROLL CALL: Senate Retirement Means Michigan’s Dominoes Are Starting to Fall.

Related: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Jumps Ahead In Polls.

DON’T THEY CARE ABOUT THE CHILDREN? WILL NO ONE THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN? HEARTLESS. The Hill: Democrat’s latest farm bill strategy: Threaten to double the price of milk.

The top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee has launched a new strategy for passing a farm bill this year: threaten to send milk prices skyrocketing.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) said he called Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack this week suggesting that the agency begin the process of implementing the 1949-era dairy policies that would take effect Oct. 1 if Congress fails to act on a farm bill before then. . . .

The 1949 law requires the Agriculture Department to manipulate the dairy market in such a way that milk is priced at a floor of roughly $39 per 100 pounds – a figure that would lead milk prices to roughly double at today’s rates.

Peterson’s strategy is not to see that happen, but to rouse the affected industry groups – particularly the powerful International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) – into pressuring Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders to enact a bill preventing the cost hike.

I think that Collin Peterson just wants to starve poor children. Because he’s mean. I mean, that’s how all the press coverage would go if he were a Republican, so . . . .

SOME GOOD NEWS FOR FREEDOM: How Women, Hispanics, and Blue Collar Workers Defended Gun Rights In Colorado.

HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Obama Hoped to Sway Opinion Abroad and He Flunked. Ya think?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: D.C. executive linked to secret 2008 aid to Hillary Clinton. “The D.C. businessman at the center of an ongoing city corruption investigation secretly spent more than a half-million dollars on get-out-the-vote efforts for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, according to interviews and court documents filed Wednesday.”

DAZED AND CONFUSED: Slate: If your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong. Ya think?

AT POPEHAT: Pax Dickinson: Thought Crime, Public Shaming and Thick Liberty in the Internet Age. Mostly I’ll note that going after people’s jobs is often lefties’ first resort.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in PC Gaming Accessories.

Plus, bestselling Bluetooth Speakers. A friend of mine has this one and the sound is amazingly good.

Also, weather devices up to 45% off. Storm season is coming.

VIDEO: 9/11 Anniversary ‘Tribute in Light.’

GONZO JOURNALISM: Here’s How a Blaze Reporter Went to Cover the ‘Million Muslim March’ and Ended Up on the Back of a Motorcycle to the Capital.

FILM: From left-wing activist to conservative hero: New documentary spotlights Brandon Darby’s strange trip. I’ve met Brandon Darby, and I like him.

ER, FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION STORY, RIGHT? RIGHT? SOLAR MAX NOT SO MAX: “2013 is supposed to be a year of solar maximum. Indeed, the sun’s magnetic field is poised to flip, a long-held sign that Solar Max has arrived. But if this is Solar Max, it looks a lot like Solar Min. The face of the sun is almost completely blank.”

THE VICTORY GIRLS ON 9/11: We Remember, We Are Not Afraid.

WELL, I WOULDN’T DO ANY MORE OF THOSE: Stanley Kurtz: This Was A Samantha Power Speech.

ESQUIRE: The Falling Man. “Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.”

After September 11, the media took great pains to avoid things that might arouse Americans to excessive anger. Which makes sense. After all, it’s not as if the people who brought down the two towers were George Zimmerman, or a rodeo clown.

IN WASHINGTON D.C., Million-Muslim Rally Attracts Dozens, Is Vastly Outnumbered By Bikers, Counter-Protesters.

FREE-FALLIN’: Poll: Obama Collapses to 38% Approval with ‘All Adults.’ “The conventional wisdom is that when you poll ‘all adults’ as opposed to a tighter screening for “registered voters,” Democrats generally do better. If that is the case, the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov is the worse news yet for a president obviously in over his head with the Russians and Syria. Obama currently sits at 38% approve/56% disapprove with all adults.”

Perhaps this is an outlier. We’ll know soon.

I WISH IT WOULD GET TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Yep, It’s Another Housing Bubble.

AS IOWAHAWK NOTED ON TWITTER, with this September 11th oped in the New York Times deriding the “American exceptionalism” that he invoked last night, Putin is basically just doing doughnuts in Obama’s front yard now.

And while there may be some pleasure in seeing Obama’s foreign-relations fecklessness chickens coming home to roost, there’s nothing good about seeing our greatest geopolitical foe putting it to an American President this way. Such are the wages of “smart diplomacy.”

Just don’t say we didn’t warn you. . . .

WATER: Kenya Discovers Huge New Aquifer.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Staying Close Long-Distance. “In the era of free Skype video chat, free Internet texting apps, and email, it is easier than ever to stay connected.”

MARC THIESSEN: “If Bush was so bad, then why did Obama lift so much of his speech making the case for military action in Syria from Bush’s speech making the case for military action in Iraq?”

Obama’s delivery wasn’t up to Bush’s, though. Because Bush actually believed in what he was saying. . . .