The last President who got elected, with a compliant media, by mouthing feel-good platitudes like Obama was the dreadful Jimmy Carter.
On the bright side, Carter’s fiasco resulted in the election of President Reagan.
Carter has never forgiven us.
See my post #1583
Not even Reagan was able to fix all of Carter's F-ups. He couldn't fix FUBAR Iran, where we would have had an ally bordering Afghanistan and Paikstan and Iraq if not for Carter. He couldn't get the Panama Canal back, a massive strategic asset that the chinese are trying to elbow in on. He couldn't fix the CIA, which is still disgustingly useless and politicized in today's war.
If we lose the war against Jihad, the best conservative president would have an impossible task trying to pick up the pieces and make everything better again in 2012.