Imagine this: you get a lease on a house, take excellent care of it, and when you leave it's in better shape than when you got it, and the value has been increased. The landlords thank you for your efforts.
Imagine this: you get a lease on a house, and while you're in it, you punch holes in the walls, mistreat all the appliances to the point where they won't operate, scratch the beautiful original wood floors, paint the walls a series of hideous, glaring colors that will take multiple coats to cover, never clean out the gutters which collapse over time and damage the exterior, burn down the garage, use the kitchen sink as a toilet rather than getting the toilet fixed, pry off the hand carved moldings and sell them and keep the money for yourself, park your car on the lawn, never mow, and break all the windows for fun. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to repair the damage and you accept no responsibility for what you've done and refuse to pay.
Example # 1: Clinton's lease on the White House.
Example # 2: Bush's lease on the White House.
Firebaggers are mad at Obama because he hasn't fixed everything at once and because he doesn't fulminate at the enemy and hasn't delivered us from our plutocratic oppressors and because their wittle feelings are hurt that Daddy doesn't pay them enough attention. Their goal now is to withhold their votes in 2012 to teach him a lesson, all the while assuring another Republican monster takes the White House, so that the insufficiently progressive majority of Americans are punished for their failure to be really, really progressive. Teabaggers want to make sure he can't fix anything ever, because they like oppressing people, and intend to do more of it.
In their shared selfishness of thought, both extremes refuse to acknowledge that cleaning up from example # 2 is going to take more than four years, more money than Steve Jobs has, and that all the while the President has to govern day to day. Thank goodness (yes, goodness) that both extremes will be rejected by the voters in 2012, as the adults doggedly continue to clean up the mess left by a bunch of uncivilized, overprivileged and violent political bullies.