Why is everything Obama's fault?

Because when you're in charge, something he's very uncomfortable with, you're the one who takes all the slings and arrows, so to speak. I think I heard it put best a year or so ago when a pundit described Obama as a mere bystander in his own presidency.

The guy was elected on a wave of largely media-generated hysteria that made him seem almost messianic....all before taking office. To say the very least, the proof wasn't in the pudding and the hype DRASTICALLY exceeded his subsequent performance. So if you're unqualified, uncaring, and incompetent all at once, what else are we to think?

It's just that he's at the top. Leader of the free world, CINC of the most powerful military on the planet. Leader of the world's largest economy. So, a lot of responsibility goes with all that power. And it's easy to forget, but every previous president was also held to task for everything that went wrong with the country. Comes with the job.

Because scapegoats are much easier than research and study... Oh, and Muricuh... Responsibility and fault are two different things. Most issues will have a thousand variables that no one person can control. That's life. He isn't really to blame for a great deal, but as President, he still shoulders responsibility. It has nothing to do with him, it's just inherent in the office, which is why Presidents seem to age in double dog years...

The President is the leader of our nation, just like a CEO is the leader of a company. The only difference is when a CEO repeatedly screws up, he/she can be fired and replaced. Not so with the other.

I think Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that read, 'The buck stops here" Any President is quick to take credit when things go wrong, a leader takes responsibility when things go wrong. When you are the leader anything that succeeds or fails is your responsibility. Therefore, he is blamed for everything, successes and failures, it comes with the job.

I would have selected other if that was a choice SPC Rory J. Mattheisen. Everything as an all-inclusive category. I certainly don't blame POTUS Obama for all "man-made" global warning activity on the planet. I do blame him for the war on the coal industry, coal-fired energy plants and the miners of this nation.
As the POTUS the buck stops there for decisions which impact our relations with other nations. I blame him fro supporting the Arab spring which turned into the Arab winter.
I don't blame POTUS Obama for the state of race relation sin this nation and the disdain for police officers in many parts of this nation. That preceded him but he could have used his Bully Pulpit to better effect to reduce tension instead of adding fuel to those fires.
I blame Obama for the Its Bush's fault for son long into his administration tenure. In that sense it will be appropriate if the nation blames Obama for his own actions and policies for the nest decade or so. History will sort this out in a century or so.
I do blame POTUS Obama for doing his best to change the social landscape of this nation. He has been the strongest supporter of induced abortion of any President. He has led the charge to use the military as the forerunner of national social change through expanding the military specialties that women can serve in while drawing down the military. [I am a member of the USMAPS class of 1976 and USMA Class of 1980 which were the first classes which included women as cadet candidates and cadets respectively. I saw that process break many women and push other women to do what had not been done.] I concur with the responses of SGT (Join to see) 1LT Aaron Barr Sgt Kelli Mays SSG Trevor S.

He's not responsible for everything, just most of it. The assumption is he's responsible for everything wrong that happened during his eight years. He is responsible for his own actions, or lack there of. Every President is blamed for everything. I remember when I was a kid and I would hear my dad say, all Eisenhower does is play golf. It's been one thing or another for every President to go through during their tenure. Obama has made a lot of unrealistic decisions without accepting input from from those around him, he depends on.
I ask myself in this election year, why would anyone want a known liar or a socialist for our POTUS, and someone who ran on a whim and won, not knowing anything about Washington and politics.

Because he's the President, the same way everything was Bush's fault when he was the President....

It's politics and yellow journalism. It happens on the right and left. I don't know how many political posts I see on facebook about Obama, Trump, Clinton and Bush that are total fabrication, cherry picking quotes or misuse/ misinterpretation of photographs.
It sickens me to no end. Whoever puts that crap up is insuklting my inteligence by thinking I woin't look into it.

Why is the default setting of his supporters to let everything he does slide and to lay blame on others?