His supporters have called Obama everything from the 'smartest president in US history', to the 'messiah'. He was ushered into office in 2009 on veritable 'wings of change'. Finally, the oppression and embarrassment of the Bush years was at an end. We would be respected again, they cried in the streets on election night. Well, here we are two years later and people are still crying in the street, but for entirely different reasons.