>Obama was all that and more when he appeared. Educated, smart, passionate about some issues, loved by people etc.
>Yet things changed for a worse anyway. It is not about who is going to be president. Question is what anybody as president can
>really do or change when elected. The same system seems to be cast in stone.
>

Have they really changed for the worse?
Step back from the daily news cycle and look objectively at a few metrics regarding where we were when he took office and where we are now.

Check a few:
National Debt
DJIA
S&P 500
Unemployment rate
Number of manufacturing jobs
Number of US troops in harm's way
Number of people without health insurance

Reagan asked it this way:
Are you better off than you were 6 years ago?
Looking at those metrics, there is only one answer.

The national debate has definitely changed for the worse but that trend was set in motion long before Obama came along.
His biggest failure in my judgment has been his inability to unite the country as he promised he would.
Cynical leadership put us on the current course and strong, honest leadership can take us off it.