wow ! ........I just reread your post ! Classic F6! ...
you are not the only one here who sees plenty Obama deserves credit/support for doing/trying to do in the context of the disastrous state of affairs dumbya&co left for him to try to handle in the midst of what has from since before his day 1 been a raging shitstorm of an unabashedly traitorous opposition's neo/theo-fascist lies and hate/fear-mongering aimed at nothing but demonizing him and his supporters and causing him to fail at anything and everything he tries to do -- whatever mistakes/miscalculations he may have made, however he hasn't yet done or tried to do everything he might or should have
........for that exquisite painfully true description of the state of our union I will go try to find the pieces .. lol .....