Comey: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

[H2O Man]

27. Perhaps I am confused,

but after reading your post three times, it sounds like you pretty much agree with what I was trying to say in the last paragraph of the OP.

I did not expect Obama to be capable of miracles when I supported him in 2008. I did think that he would do about the best he could, though. And I understand the distinction between "can't" and "won't."

Picking an FBI director is, by its nature, more limited than many (if not most) of the other choices a US President makes. In a very real sense, it is more restrictive than options for that person's supervisor, the Attorney General. (Hence, the swine Ed Meese.) I've yet to see this President go outside the box on any such choice -- he always goes with a company man or woman.

The FBI director is always inside the box. Thus, in looking at the possible choices from in that box, I think that for all his faults -- which are real and significant -- Comey is at very least as good as any other option, because in his rigid manner, he has at times opposed the breaking of the company's written rules.

Again, I'd one thousand times prefer someone with Elizabeth Warren's character. But I recognize that there is zero chance of President Obama picking anyone like that. Thus, my essay is based on the reality of the choices the President might make, not what I want.