Despite the mess he inherited from George W. Bush, Barack Obama has been doing an excellent job his first two years in office. It’s like when Randy Shannon replaced Larry Coker as University of Miami football coach. Coker had screwed up the program so Donna Shalala brought in Shannon to fix it. When shit gets really messed up, you give the job to the black man. So if he doesn’t succeed right away, it’s easier to push him out before he even has a chance to prove himself.

Obama took over the country on the brink of a depression. The government was broken, the banking system blew up, and we were engaged in two wars that cost us billions of dollars a day. It couldn’t have been worse. I ask myself all the time why Obama would want his job.