Firstly, winky smiley?
Secondly to get a bill past congress and enacted as a law is practically impossible for him as the republicans have the majority there.
Our own dysfunctional Dail and a cabinet that is reduced effectively to just Enda Kenny, Noonan and Burton deciding what to do and the party whip forcing it through isn't the way politics is done elsewhere. Before that it was just the two Brians, before that more of the same with Berties inner circle.
To lay it all on Obama is incredibly simplistic.