Is there such a thing as a good one-term President?

President Obama has stated that he would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.  Is there such a thing as a good one-term president?
Last year the Chicago Bears signed potential franchise quarterback and supposed team savior Jay Cutler to much fanfare and great optimism and eventually even more criticism and greater disappointment as the team went on to an underwhelming 7-9 record and Cutler led the league in interceptions.
After trading away draft picks, incomprehensible personnel moves and questionable coaching decisions, Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo and Head Coach Lovie Smith are on the hot seat.  Conventional wisdom is they have a year to get it right. Make the playoffs next season or find new jobs.
But suppose that everything works out.  Suppose the sun shines everyday in Chicago and flowers bloom in the winter...
Suppose new offensive coordinator Mike Martz transforms the team from offensive pauper to powerhouse. Suppose Cutler performs as the Pro Bowl quarterback-of-the-future he was supposed to last year. Suppose the defense doesn't allow opposing offenses to carve them up like a Thanksgiving turkey.  Suppose the team makes the playoffs, or, perhaps, even returns to the Superbowl.  Which, then, is more likely?  That Angelo and Smith will be sent packing?  Or will there be much rejoicing among the formerly hostile fans and once again fawning media celebrating their brilliant job in turning the team around?  Contract extensions, perhaps?
So, again, is there such a thing as a good one-term President?  After all, a one-term President is a President who is not reelected.  The two most recent one-term Presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, were both disappointments in that respect.  Carter's incompetence led to the Iran hostage crisis and economic stagflation.  Bush broke his promise not to raise taxes.
But what about President Obama?  Essentially what President Obama is saying is that he would rather achieve his wildly unpopular agenda and policy goals rather than win reelection.  That means he wants his healthcare reform, he wants his climate change legislation, he wants his immigration reform, he wants his financial reform.  It also means he understands his centralized authoritarian policies are disliked to such an extent that the American people will not want four more years of him in charge.  Yet he intends to push ahead with his agenda anyway despite the wishes of those who elected him.  It is obvious in his recent, even more accelerated and forceful push for his type of government run healthcare.
A one-term President doesn't get his contract extension.  A one-term President is told to take his playbook and take a hike so someone else can clean up his mess and return the team to glory.