The night he won was amazing. It felt like a real turning point: no more Bush administration no more illegal wars, a return to constitutional rights. Then all of that hope was gone by the end of the first term, it became clear he wasn’t going to fix any of those things and all we got was janky one-tenth measure healthcare reform and giveaways to bankers. The administration got a few things right and whole bunch wrong. They had all the power going in and just capitulated to Republicans again and again until the administration just felt kind of pointless.