The woes of a second term are nothing new, but for President Obama they seem to have started sooner and struck harder than for his predecessors.
In his State of the Union address, delivered precisely six months ago Monday, Obama outlined a scaled-down agenda for his sixth year in office, acknowledging the difficulty of passing legislation in a gridlocked Congress and vowing to use “the pen and the phone” to get things done. Now even those circumscribed ambitions have been overshadowed by crises overseas that are demanding his attention and buffeting his presidency. CONT.
Susan Page, USA Today