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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Ultimately, presidents aren't assessed by what great people they were. Jimmy Carter is a great person, and he's regarded as a dud as a president. They're assessed by what tangible measures they accomplished and whether voters remember their term as a happy time. Obama, largely due to a dysfunctional Washington, didn't accomplish much. As for whether his term will be regarded as a happy time, it was pretty miserable for the large swathes of the country that never recovered from the 2008 financial meltdown.
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I was age 5-9 during the Carter presidency and even at that young age remember watching the news and seeing Carter flounder. I recall thinking for some reason Reagan was a great president in the years that followed and as a child he certainly held much more charisma. I had no concept of left or right but the TV I was watching, and this was pre-CNN, showed me that Regean was better than Carter. I don't know why.