Maybe wishful thinking on my part, but if things don’t change...and I mean change FAST, I think Zero is a one-termer.
There are two huge societal changes against him, right off the top of my head:
First off, thanks to tv/video etc, the American public now has the attention span of an ant. They are not going to sit back and wait YEARS for the economy/unemployment to improve. Due to his reckless spending, inflation will reduce their impatience even more.
Secondly, he can’t pretend this is 1932 and he is FDR. No future president can. The New Media is running circles around the moribund, backwards, and biased Old Media (see events in Iran!) If he’s hoping for some fireside chat to calm the masses, he’s even more stupid than he seems.
You are quite right. Take his Rose Garden speech later this morning. It will be Twittered to pieces before he is finished reading it.