Augen on 09 December 2013
From day one he was in for one of hardest presidencies in terms of getting anything done. The Republicans made it clear they would oppose by all and nay means possible to anything proposed that might make him look good. They saw Obama as a distinct threat that could cause Republicans to be out of power for the next decade or so. The whole 2010 election locked in safe seats and set us up for a more divided and extreme congress for least 10 years (the next census).
If the goal was to disillusion all the 2008 hope voters then yeah, the Republicans might have succeeded in lowering moral. If anything the past five years have set back democracy and public discourse and has left many victims in its wake, the greatest being the President.
