Obama's in the same position any president is in after the brief honeymoon that (sometimes) may follow being elected : he is the number one guy in the country to bitch about and blame for whatever goes wrong...or whatever one doesn't like...etc. He symbolizes the government, so he gets the blame. The same thing happens in Canada with our prime ministers. I hear people complaining about Mr Harper constantly. (Mr "Who???" say all the nonCanadians...well, he's hated by a lot of people here in the Great White North.)

There's nothing unusual about it at all.

Just look back to the years of Bush or Clinton or whoever came before them. They got bitched about constantly too by more or less half the public, accused of being terrible and evil and all that, and the usual partisan stuff played a very large part in it.

Nations are bitterly divided by their political parties, and you can expect whoever gets elected to be singled out for harsh criticism once he's in office by a very large segment of the public and regarded as "the enemy" by those same people. About the only time it tends to moderate is in the early stages of a war, when people tend to rally round the flag and are afraid to be seen as "unpatriotic" if they don't.

I like Obama...as a person. I was very glad to see him elected in 2008...mildly relieved to see him elected in 2012. I am quite disappointed in his foreign and domestic policy decisions, for the most part...but I haven't agreed with USA domestic OR foreign policy for about as long as I can remember, so there's nothing new about that. It's not about Obama for me...it's about the American Empire and its ambitions.