[M203M4]

Having gone through life graded on a different curve...

[Verginius Rufus]

One of Obama's accomplishments is having been the first black president of the Harvard law review. Of course, they had to change the rules to have him win--before that, it was the top student, but they wanted to have a black person win.

I'd be tempted to say it's a bit like the Democratic Party picking him as their nominee, except that if you look over the Democratic presidential nominees of the last several decades, it's hard to believe that most of them were the best the Democrats had to offer.