Pres. Obama is not the problem - his "handlers" are. Every action he has done so far does not show him as being independent from 20+-plus-years-in-the-House Speaker Pelosi, 20+-years-in-the-Senate Leader Reid, and the others with multi-decade DC time who have written the platforms, paved the way, and now are collecting their debts. Pres. Obama is just too new a face with too few folk owing him to have the impact he's getting "credit" for.