Obama is not powerful,the office he holds is.
You only have to look at who the mans heroes are and ask why would his Theseus or any major paper he wrote in collage be sealed ?

The man spent 40 years in a church known to be anti U.S. with regular attendance, his wife said " electing her husband was the first time she has ever been proud of our country". His inauguration and speeches in it was a direct finger flown at white americans that elected him.
The first speaches he made where all to the Arab world appoligizing for the U.S.

I don't hate the man but loath his politics.

He simply campaigned well and got foreign backing,and ran with the full help of a very liberal media behind him.
You are lucky now to meet 2 or 3 people that will even admit to voting for him.
The U.S. needs your equivalent of Winston Churchill as our next leader, a man I respect more every time I learn more about him.