In which area was president obama not successful during his first term in office?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The area in which President Obama was not successful during his first term in office was "bringing combat troops home from Iraq."

President Barack Obama was in North Carolina, at the Marine Corps base in Lejeune, when he publicly expressed that he was going to revise the date of withdrawal of the American troops installed in Iraq. The original date was June 30, 2009, but President Obama said that he had plans to move the date until August 31, 2010. The idea was to strengthen the training of the Armed Forces of Iraq.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”