Polly Toynbee says...

Obama has done/is doing his best. And they haven't got anyone else.

It seems harder work getting things through in the States than it does here.

Wise move, flickety. I am getting better at not jumping on bandwagons in the first place, but it takes practice.

I think we tend to build up quite unreasonable expectations about what someone who promises to be a new broom, or the first women, first black person etc etc can do. The problems do not melt away as soon as they come into power. They have to cope with the same constraints that limited previous governments.

Fortunately I have a tendency to jump off as soon as I realise I am on a bandwagon so rarely suffer disappointment.

Been reading some of the comments as well. One in particular jumped out and smacked me between the eyes: the poster says how disappointed he is in Blair after the euphoria of 1997 and – this the smack bit – how he feels the same way about Obama.

This has made me brave enough to say what has been in my mind for a while. You can go off people, Obama. [disappointed]

That's what the Greek government thought as well.