You could have written that and that only, and this would have been a great article. That is all people sent him down there to do. To not be the guys who f'd up people's lives in plain sight and got bailed out. Thanx for this. I feel the same about him. But, I had low expectations. I warned people he was not a progressive or even a liberal politician. He was a pragmatic guy, cautious to a fault, and he could talk the game of politics. I also had low expectations, very low. I remember pulling for John Edwards to win that year rather than Obama (I am an Independent so I don't do the party mess).