this will be brief because As a strong Obama supporter I'm now sick of excuses and the Hopium bullshit !
Analysis: Obama's buck-stopping goes only so far
http://news.yahoo.com/...
A Gallup Poll near the end of the year found 25 percent of people — just one in four — feeling satisfied with how things were going in the United States.
"The president himself, not surprisingly, may feel quite satisfied with accomplishments in his first year," said Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll. "But we don't see signs that the American public is positive."
IMO Obama's mistake was appointing Rahm Emmanuel, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, keeeping Ben Bernanke and making his bed with Vampire Squid from Hell.
Otherwise it could have been different.