Funny thing, Work Farce, but "the other side" saw just the opposite.  That Obama was fighting for blacks and oppressing whites.  Hence Trump.  Or at least, a huge amount of the reasons for Trump's rise - he tapped into white anger, fear and hate.

Obama even saying that any son of his would look like Trayvon Martin set off the wails of white privilege.

And Jimbo5 makes a sadly pertinent point - the Republicans opposed everything Obama did and right from the start with the failure to close Guantanamo we learned that many Democrats were not going to walk the talk either.

Obama was never God, Oprah Winfrey's endorsement aside :-)