But where was/is the leadership? There is none, IMO. Reagan was a leader, so was Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and even Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Bush 41 to some degree. Carter, Clinton and Bush 43 have been absymal in leadership roles. They have each allowed the opposition Congress, foreign governments and/or conflicts/crisis to dominate them!
I have been disappointed that the country did not take a turn to the right under his watch, so your point has some merit. Nonetheless, he gets major kudos in his approach to the war on terror, which includes ousting Sadam. I grant you that he should have let the generals fight the war; that is, the surge should have occurred much earlier. But overall, he has done well on terror.