Just substitute George W. Bush for Barack Obama, and you'll understand how the majority of the country felt for 8 years:

The danger to America is not George W. Bush but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an George W. Bush presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than George W. Bush, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a George W. Bush, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.