Seriously. Americans expect their President to do his job...that's what he is being paid for. We don't pay for our President to make campaign stops on the back of air force one, and talk about all the greatness he has done (whether or not that is the case). An incumbent should be confident enough to let his or her record speak for itself and besides joining the challenger for a few debates near election time, do some fucking work for a change. This isn't directed JUST at Obama but it would be nice to see him actually show a sprinkle of character.
THIS incumbent President needs to campaign because he desperately needs to frame the debate of the upcoming election. If he can't shift the electorate's focus away from the economy, unemployment and a growing deficit...onto social issues like abortion rights and student loan rates then he's toast in November. He has two major "accomplishments" so far in his first term...ObamaCare and the Obama Stimulus. The first is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever cobbled together and will most likely have major components ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The second was so bad at creating jobs that they had to come up with a new economic statistic to HIDE how bad the numbers were...the laughable "jobs saved" number.
The problem that Barack Obama has is that he himself said that if he couldn't fix the economy in three years that he would deserve to be a one term President. Not only hasn't he fixed the economy but he seemingly has no plan to do so in the future. He's concentrated at the moment on "the Buffett rule" and on student loans...neither one of which will do anything to help on the economic front but are solely campaign issues he hopes will rally his base.