I love when people say he was handed a shitty situation, he was in congress, he choose to run for POTUS, he knew what he was getting into.
Oh, I am not excusing him. I said he was a bad president. He came with bells and rings attached and most of Europe thought he shit gold for fuck sake. Look at when he first went to Germany after being elected. People equated a black president being elected after an economic crash with some notion that suddenly the world was different...
Now it isn't Obama's fault that race relations are shit in America, you can argue about the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan (Afghanistan gets forgotten - it has improved a lot)... but on the Arab Spring, on Qaddafi, on Egypt, on Assad - he made terrible misjudgments.