Mr. Will's race card.

"...Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work.

A significant date in the nation’s civil rights progress involved an African American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues’ first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.

Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.

Perhaps a pleasant paradox defines this political season: That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC’s excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head." {More}

George Will has written a lot of crap in his day, but his latest philippic against Barack Obama might be his most disgraceful to date. It was disgraceful because Mr. Will used the race card to justify his partisan rhetoric. Reasonable people can argue over Barack Obama's accomplishments or lack thereof. (I have certainly had my own issues with the guy) As I have stated before, his presidency hasn't been Kennedyesque, but it hasn't been Nixonesque or Carteresque, either. I know one thing, after eight years of W he was a welcome change. (Pun Intended.)

To suggest that the only reason President Obama is leading Mitt Romney in the polls is because Americans have some soft spot for his race is laughable. I would submit to Mr. Will that Obama is getting grief from certain people in America because of his black half.

It would be nice, as Chris Rock once said, if a black man could get a job, be incompetent while doing that job, get fired from that job, and another black man could actually be hired to take his place. But we all know that's not the case. The black man in a high profile position as president is viewed by many as a black man first.  His accomplishments, no matter how great, won't matter to some folks, because of that one little issue.  

Yes, "managers get fired all the time", but they are fired because their team is losing. I would suggest to Mr. Will that this manager is not losing. At least half the fans of the team think that the manager is doing just fine. And, unlike baseball, the fans vote to keep their manager; not the owner of the team.