Obama turned out to be just another politician. He overpromised and underdelivered...just like everyone else. So why all the hatred?
A president with an uncooperative congress is not on his own capable of getting the U.S. into the imbroglio it's in. It really doesn't take much intelligence to notice that none of the problems we face--recession/unemployment, war/security, healthcare--are best described on a trend line that is not book-ended in convenient 4-year chunks that correspond with the term of your least-favorite president. Obama, like Bush, presides at the juncture of multiple clusterfucks. How can you not see that?
It really makes you question what is fueling the high-octane vitriol leveled at Obama. Did you think presidents prevent recessions on their own? How do you muster such a passionate dislike for a guy that is at worst, lame, at best, not shitting the bed like W?
If you haven't read this, you should. If your brain is not clogged with poo and bias, it should make you pause before you criticize someone with vastly more world knowledge than you, i.e. the POTUS. Short read, give it a shot.
http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-limitations-knowledge