This article expresses what I have been feeling about Obama. He has gotten all the issues on the table, balls up in the air, really out there, but there is no sense of a Big Plan, such as seems to have been the case with Roosevelt, even Lincoln. I do not think this has been a lost year, it has just been..not "messy" but FULL year. 2 wars, recession, gay rights (the big rights of the decade), childhood obesity, and of course health care. ( )