While most tend to look at the top of the water, I tend to look underneath the top of the water, to see where it's really going (although admittedly I flubbed up big time with the recent presidential election).
There's a lot of things about the Big Zero, his words and his conduct, that indicate he's slowly becoming aware he's w-a-a-a-a-a-y over his head in this president thing, and it's starting to make him sweat. His selection of old-timers, for example, for high-profile offices, rather than new people.
The Big Zero is a guy desperately looking for a helmsman.
Being a product of corrupt Chicago machine politics, it would be no particular humiliation, or even weakness, for the Big Zero to hand the reins of power over to someone else, while he himself remains in the driver's seat.
It's happened ever since the Democrats invented corrupt politics circa 200 years ago.
In other words, the Big Zero remaining president de jure, but someone else becoming president de facto.
This would "cover" the Big Zero two ways: (a) he'd still get all the fame and glory of being the first "black" president in American history, including credit for anything, if anything at all, that goes well during his presidency, and (b) if something goes wrong, the de facto president, and not the Big Zero, would be blamed.
I frankly suggest the Big Zero make the junior U.S. Senator from New York the de facto president, to run things, and to take the blame if something goes wrong, while the Big Zero, as the de jure sits back and enjoys the temporary prerogatives of the presidency.
This would involve no particular problems; the junior U.S. Senator from New York could remain the junior U.S. Senator from New York; it's only that she would actually be running things, while the Big Zero could play with his toys.
