I call it Magical Negro Syndrome. The press had built Obama up to be omniscient and all powerful. The left thought that with a chorus of Zippity Doo Dah he could close the well. With a drive of his Bagger Vance golf club all the oil would be removed from the beaches. That the laying on of his John Coffey hands he could heal the gulf fisherman's woes.

The reality that he is just another stuffed shirt politician, who has about as much executive \ managerial skills (him or anyone in his administration) as Barney Franks had pussy, and the fact that he is much less competent to handle a crisis than even Bush, has been a let down of enormous proportions. So of course they are angry, hurt, and turn to back stabbing him, because none want to be seen as the last clown backing him now.