A Look Back at the Last Day You Felt Unreservedly Good About Barack Obama: Inauguration 2009 Max Read · 01/21/13 09:32AM It's been a hard four years for liberals. There's the radicalized and intractable opposition, the weak response to our sluggish economy, the widening inequality, and the ever-lengthening "Kill List" of extrajudicial, extralegal assassinations.