What was SNL thinking?

How could they point out the Emperor President has no clothes? SNL gets grief for sketch where Obama says he has accomplished nothing. CNN and Yahoo! leap to the President's defense and attempt to fisk the sketch. [Link]

7. Changing the military’s policies on gay soldiers: In his first week in the Oval Office, President Obama announced that his Administration would have to study the “implications for national security” before he could attempt to repeal the present “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy initiated by the Clinton administration in 1993. On Sunday, White House National Security Adviser James Jones reiterated Obama’s commitment to fulfilling this campaign promise, but added that the president has “a lot on his plate” and would get around to addressing the issue at the “right time.”  [In other words, nine months into his presidency, despite promises, to date, Obama has done . . . yes, wait for it . . . nothing, which is even less than Clinton, who got "don't ask, don't tell" to be the rule.]
8. Placing limits on executive powers: In the early days of his presidency, Congressional Quarterly praised Obama for appearing as if he was “rejecting some of Bush’s most expansive executive power claims” in the White House. However, that sentiment quickly evaporated among Obama supporters and opponents, with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald noting in April that the White House had “explicitly claimed to possess the very presidential powers that Bush critics spent years condemning as radical, lawless and authoritarian.”  [Okay, so if I get this right, Obama actually did something regarding executive powers -- namely, he broke his promise and out-Bushed Bush when it came to presidental powers (and Yahoo doesn't even mention all those czars).]
9. Prosecute those who facilitate torture: In April, President Obama announced that his Administration would not bring charges against those who carried out acts deemed as torture upon U.S. terror detainees, but rather might seek to prosecute the Bush Administration officials who drafted the documents justifying the use of torture as lawful. In August, Attorney General Eric Holder followed through by announcing the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate whether or not the interrogations of suspected terrorists broke any laws.  [In other words, once again, when Obama actually did something, it was to break an explicit promise to do nothing.  I get that.]
So, taking all of this into consideration, are SNL’s satirical criticisms of President Obama’s do-nothingness valid? Probably not, mainly because, as illustrated by the old adage about how one shouldn’t watch sausage or legislation get made, the process of “change” and getting anything done in Washington is a long and messy one, and Obama is merely nine months into his term as president. But that doesn’t mean that Saturday’s SNL skit was humorless, which, for once, it most definitely was not.  [In other words, when it comes to Obama, making promises to do something and then doing nothing, or making promises to do nothing and then doing something, counts as being an effective, pro-active, can-do, follow-through leader.]