Yeah comparative politics isn't generally used to compare presidential administrations.
Comparative politics is used as a socio-scientific method to evaluate the effects of different government institutions and ideologies relative to each other. In essence it's trying to create as best possible a lab study using cases of different government organizations to measure their effects.
Generally, comparative politics would have very little to do with measuring Obama vs. Bush unless there were significant systemic or idealogical changes. The latter may hold but an analysis would only be useful after the fact.
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