Why do some Republicans hate President Obama that much?

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Polarisation of the electrorate.

That said I hard feel it's a unique phenomenon for a leader to become utterly despised amongst one region or section of people. Ask an Albertan for their opinion on Trudeau, or somebody from Scotland/Soith Wales/the North about Thatcher. Sometimes decisions affect real people and it is very easy (and tempting) to pin all your hate upon a single figure. And Obama - urbane, mixed race, vaguely foreign, links to Chicagoland machine - is quite an easy figure to be twisted for certain types who aren't doing too well economically. From then on it's the whipping up of groupthink and hyperbole.

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I love when some partisans get into a flurry to prove themselves as completely affectless and blasé about their feelings towards the other party - while the 'other' partisan group, by contrast, are composed of incomprehensibly angry people. You're not proving anything! You're supposed to feel mad and emotional in politics - that's part of the fun of being a partisan in the first place

I think a lot of presidents intentionally cultivate the image they are mocked with. Dubya's 'gee darn I'm a cowboy' act was a genius move, for example, because the mockery it caused from the usual suspects increased his sway among elements of the base.

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Who do you think is more hated: Thatcher in Yorkshire or Obama in Appalachia?