As I have said before, he's in for 4 years of hell. That's what anyone is in for who gets elected president.

Obama wants too much to be liked? Well, gosh! We probably all want too much to be liked...aside from those few among us who have decided that they get more satisfaction from being known as "the biggest bastard" on the block. Some people are like that. They actually get a real charge out of how much they piss off so many other people around them. I think Winston Churchill was one of those types. ;-) Obama definitely isn't.

Obama will bore anyone who basically doesn't believe in him in the first place. He will interest and appeal to those who do believe in him in the first place. That's how boredom works. You simply need a basic lack of interest or a basic disinclination toward something, and you get bored.

People always have patience if they're genuinely interested. They don't if they're not.