When Obama took the office the country was in terrible shape. A leader would have been able to ask everyone to sacrifice, pull the vast majority together, and get us going in right direction. Difficult times bring out real leaders and this President missed an opportunity. Instead we got out of a terrible situation by driving the next generation so far into crippling debt that their futures are very much in jeopardy. Now everyone is back to "what can polititians do for me", and we are all locked and loaded. Until we have another crisis it will be business as usual, but I don't think we will be waiting too long.