Most people see what they want to see, or are inclined to see, if you don't like Obama you see media one way, if you hope he can do some good for the nation, you see things another way. But a serious difference is how rabid big money conservatives go after a democratic president. I guess we can blame it all on FDR as he started a period that lasted till the eighties of a little pie for everyone. I remember some of the dislike of Carter but Clinton was demonized from the beginning and for years into the Bush administration the hatred of Clinton continued unabated. Clinton was blamed for the terrorism of the times and even Bush's failure to pay attention. Obama has had it even worse as the power of propaganda has infected more minds than even in Clinton's presidency. Meanwhile in the background the infrastructure collapses, monies for the public good are diminished, and the poor stand still as the wealthy grow their greed.
"This is when the Republican Party set its trap. Meeting in closed sessions at the beginning of the Obama regime, the party of tax cuts for the rich, unfunded wars, and the largest deficit in the history of the country redefined itself. It suddenly became the party of deficit reduction through lean government joined to supreme confidence in unregulated financial and corporate markets. It even opposed the bail out of General Motors and Chrysler, though these actions stopped unemployment from reaching a dangerous tipping point, allowed the two companies time to reconstruct themselves, and enabled them to pay back the loans within two years–-creating one of the most successful bailouts in the history of Euro-American economic life."
The Contemporary Condition: The Republican Pincer Machine