Let’s see if you can spot a familiar pattern here, and it’s probably a pattern that has held true in most of Obama’s jobs. Time magazine gushed in 2008 about Barack Obama’s 12-year tenure as a law lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, saying, “Within a few years, he had become a rock-star professor with hordes of devoted students.” That may have been true during his first two years, when he ranked first among the law school’s 40 instructors, with students giving him a rating of 9.7 out of a possible 10. In 1999, only 23 percent of...