WASHINGTON: Six years after sweeping into the White House on the slogan "Yes We Can," Barack Obama, whose Democratic party has lost control of both houses of Congress, must now find a new can-do spirit.

Floundering in the polls and shunned by his own party's candidates, as Obama moves into the final two years of his term his presidency seems a world away from the promise of his 2008 campaign.

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