He was terribly unqualified. He majored in political science, for pity's sake. A bit of a loon as well:

"enslaving" minorities, called black leaders "race traders," and labeled former President Barack Obama a "Maoist" with "communist" roots."

And

 "He was brought up by socialists to be a socialist. His associations were socialists or worse, criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States. He has no experience at anything other than race baiting and race trading as a community organizer."

Usually, you have to to Alex Jones to get this level of reality disconnect. Not the person to be the chief scientist by any stretch of the imagination.