• He did not hold a press conference since last July—after running on a platform of greater transparency.
• He were presiding over, by consensus, one of the most incompetent administrations in history.
• His administration did not respond in a meaningful fashion for upwards of ten days to an environment-threatening event of potentially catastrophic magnitude.
• He allowed a major corporation to be on point for the mitigation of an enormous environmental disaster.
• The economy were hemorrhaging jobs for 16 months and counting, particularly after promising that his policy prescriptions would remedy the situation.
• The deficit tripled and national debt were on track to quadruple.
• The Palestinian/Israeli problem were mired in limbo with no progress to-date, or in sight.
• The Iranians were moving inexorably toward a world-destabilizing, deliverable nuclear weapon.
• His party were braced for massive mid-term election losses.
• He stood by embarrassing incompetents the likes of Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder.
• The poll numbers for virtually everyone of his policies were unequivocally negative, and dropping further.
• Someone in his administration allegedly attempted to bribe a U.S. Senate aspirant with a federal job so he wouldn't run against their preferred candidate.

Ya think the storyline might be a bit different, and/or pursued with a touch more vigor, from/by the mainstream media?

Just sayin.

And John Lennon thought he was a dreamer?  Guess he was right...he wasn't the only one.