Everyone wants Obama to be a failure. Not just the right, and the libertarians obviously. The (tiny) far left as well. A sane person in the White House that thinks rationally and tries to pull the country together? That has disaster written all over it for the careers of the kind of people around him. In the worst case they'll eventually be replaced by less corrupt ones - the horror!

Maybe he can't even be bought? Imagine the horror among interest groups - he's not sucking off big oil, but he also pushes back against the auto unions. That's a nightmare.

So from all sides people try to character-assassinate him.

Of course his foreign name and skin color were the easiest targets. Next: community organizer?? What, the guy wasn't a sociopathic corporate lawyer, only in the game for the money? Let's call that un-American!

Then he has the audacity to tackle difficult issues - he actually mentions atheists and religions other than Christianity under the name of America? That's persecution of the Christian "minority"(because, you see, the real Christians who believe Jesus rides T-Rex, are still in the minority).

Hiring Goldman Sachs people - the best in the business - for government positions? The only explanation must be that this is all part of a century old Rothschild-Jewish-Nazi-Communism conspiracy involving the Federal reserve and China who now holds a total of eight percent of American public debt - which means they "almost totally" own us. At least on that point the far left and the far right agree.

And so on.... the neverending stream of bullshit.

The best are the "disgruntled supporters" (aka rightwing shills) saying "I always believed in Obama, but now that he [made pragmatic compromise without which there would have been no improvement at all] I'm so disillusioned I'm not voting at all. Or maybe for some fringe party that definitely will not win, so the GOP can take over again."