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Originally Posted by HOZ
My goodness you are hung up on Bush. This is the second time I posted something and you went off on a Bush tangent. You are very sensitive to me criticizing Obama. Somehow equating my criticism of Obama as trying to make Bush's presidency better. Well I am not. Bush is history and Obama is the man in power.
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There's a whole field of political science called Comparative Politics. In order to measure someone like Obama (assuming a neutral measurement is what you're looking for), you have to contextualize him with other world leaders, as well as previous Presidents.
Without measuring Obama against previous Presidents, it's pretty tough to judge how good of a job he's doing. Bush was the most recent example of someone who had the same job Obama was elected to, I'd say comparisons aren't just useful, they're necessary to figure out what is improving and what isn't. You also need a 'sample' amount of time... 60 days isn't enough.
But, if the goal is to say 'Obama sucks', then I suppose comparing him to the next most recent US President is out of the question.