The ability to govern requires the room to be misunderstood.
In America, when Republicans are in charge and they act, the fools who will never understand - the ignorant and their handlers - begin a campaign of insistence. A spin job, as it were, and those who can (but don't necessarily care to) understand, begin to be inured to the new crime with handy propaganda points from a well-oiled machine, while those who understand cry bloody murder and hyper analyze the quantity and quality of the wrongness among themselves.
When Democrats are in charge, They act with perpetual trepidation. At each infuriating step, those who would understand attempt to explain to those who can understand amidst the baying of those who don't understand with varying degrees of success. Throughout this annoying journey there are frequent times when those who understand become bored and begin to muddy the waters intentionally out of momentary lapses of how fragile the process is.
This is what leads to Huffington Post articles that inexplicably punch the presidency in the back of the head. They think they are being "fair" by arbitrarily being pedantic. it makes them think they have "integrity" to nitpick and distort. Of course this is exactly what we all need in this glacial marathon of progress: some hard hitting news people to yell fire in the theater of national debate.
That there is now a conversation about the relative merits of Obama's attitude toward the banks is a crime and nothing less.
Some may like HuffPost some may not, but there is no doubt that they are popular so your particular opinion is unimportant. What is important is knowing that they are Vichy France. You or your friends may find some fine wine while hiding out there, but there are turncoats everywhere and they will turn you in for a paltry sum.