George Will made the suggestion that the only reason Obama seems poised to win re-election is because he's black and Americans are reluctant to throw out of office our first black President. In his column in the Washington Post, Will declares that “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 not 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.”