Trap, you're right on there with your post.
BO's mistake was thinking that getting to the White House the first time was enough. The man has spent his entire life building a facade that would get him into the White House. He had no plan after that except to shove every new policy down our throats and assume that what worked to get him into the White House would work to retain him. He had one goal and that was to be president. He is not the brilliant thinker--the mastermind--that he or his pals think he is. If he was he would have seen what was coming and prepared his administration and campaign for it. But because he and his pals don't understand the United States beyond their negative, hate-filled rhetoric they gave no credence to opposing views. They don't see opposing views as thoughtful, deeply held, grounded beliefs based on truth and natural rights. They see those beliefs as superficial and selfish as their own. If you think you're enemy is stupid you don't prepare the same and if you're as lazy as BO is then you mistakedly believe you're right in that view.