It's not Obama's fault, he tried, but the big meanies wouldn't let him change the system.
These apologias are going to be more common now that the whole nation gets to see the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure that inhabits the White House. Academics are well suited to the job, they're ingenious and terrific wordsmiths and can concoct all sorts of plausible sounding idiocy, see "Race is only a social construction" for example.