wouldn't Reid be an example of a Corollary to Murphy's Law?
By default he's landed in a position he is totally unqualified for.
He's reached his level of incompetence, and now the world can see it, we just didn't know what a fool he was before.
Rascality has limits; stupidity has none.
Napoleon
"wouldn't Reid be an example of a Corollary to Murphy's Law?"
Think you mean the Peter Principle...
It's a matter of color. The Demos want the colored vote. If Thomas was white there would be problem, they do not want them in a power. Look at the hard time the Demos gave Condi.