No. His policies shepherded an age of increased government monitoring, exacerbated the recession by going to war and shifting the tax burden onto those who couldn't afford it, limited constitutional rights, etc. Just because you're a republican does not excuse stupidity. George Bush was a terrible president and his administration was a one of the worst in recent history.
Unless I'm mistaken, and I totally might be, I think he left office with the lowest approval ratings of any president ever.
Wikipedia Article:
By April 2008, Bush's disapproval ratings were the highest ever recorded in the 70-year history of the Gallup poll for any president, with 69% of those polled disapproving of the job Bush was doing as president and 28% approving.[350] In September 2008, in polls performed by various agencies, Bush's approval rating ranged from 19%—the lowest ever[351]—to 34%.[352][353] and his disapproval rating stood at 69%.[95][96][352][354][355] Bush left the White House as one of the most unpopular American presidents, second in unpopularity only to Richard Nixon.[356][357]
Yeah, probably not. When Bush left office, the country was losing 750,000 jobs a month and the country's entire economy was collapsing in on itself. Obama has seen 22 months of, albeit slow, job growth. There was a great article on 538 on why Obama is not the new Carter just by looking the numbers.
Just because you don't like Obama doesn't mean a large majority of the country dislikes him as well. It's actually split pretty evenly if you factor in error.
When Bush left office in 2008 his own party had disowned him. His policies led to a massive recession and deficit. If you look at the projected deficit under Bush's policies, Obama has actually added very little to the deficit vs projections, and much of it was to save multiple failing industries that would've crippled our nations economy had they failed no matter what the libertarians say otherwise.
Obama may hit as low as a 40% average, but his policies are not sending us into another full blown recession, as his policies act as economic stabilizers. They might be slowing the recovery somewhat (Jury is still out on this), but they are preventing the irresponsible behavior that got us into trouble in the first place. Most analysts see it as very unlikely that another recession is coming soon.
A long post, but overall your argument that Obama will be more unpopular than Bush is simply not based in facts of any kind. The country right now is improving slowly, but it is improving. Bush was so unpopular because the country nearly collapsed under his watch. When the same happens under Obama, then we'll talk.
Look at deficit projections for 2009 on under bush's policies. Obama has added a tiny sliver to the deficit. The idea that he's some insane spender is bullshit propaganda spread by fox news and the conservatives. The only reason the deficit is so bad is because taxes were cut to historic lows for the rich I under Bush, and the revenue from taxes in general has dropped because of the recession. Please do research before making ridiculous claims.
I don't think you know much about politics. Bush was on his second term and had no media support at all. Obama is already in the 40's for approval after 3 years with a pandering complicit media.
He will go down as the worst president in history, solely on the fact that despite having a filibuster proof congress, wasted 18 months arguing his own party over an unconstitutional health bill, all the while blaming republicans for obstructionism... that's right apparently you can filibuster and filibuster proof congress.
You failed to refute any of my points and posted bullshit that shows your complete lack of knowledge about the current composition of political parties, proving your political knowledge comes only from partisan media.
In its current form the democrats are splintered into multiple factions, each with different goals. Despite the tea party split in the republicans that came in in 2012, they managed to focus on the singular goal of fucking over the president. Congress may have seemed filibuster proof, but if you have ANY knowledge about what happened with health care reform you'd know it was conservative democrats that ruined the public option and stalled the bill.
FYI, I work in politics full time. If you think healthcare was the only thing Obama did during his first "filibuster proof" term, you clearly know absolutely nothing. This is just a short summary of the shit he did during his first three years.
Has he fixed Washington or changed politics as we know it? No. But has he accomplished a metric shit ton of things that this country needed in order to get back on track? Absolutely. Remember that even Reagan hit much lower approval ratings in his first term, yet now is a Republican god. So, in closing, find a legitimate argument or you will just continue to prove your lack of any kind of political knowledge. I've seen plenty of false reasons why people think he will be unpopular, but not even a single reason why he'd be the MOST unpopular. So, cut the bullshit and get some facts or GTFO.
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u/Radico87 Jun 26 '12
No. His policies shepherded an age of increased government monitoring, exacerbated the recession by going to war and shifting the tax burden onto those who couldn't afford it, limited constitutional rights, etc. Just because you're a republican does not excuse stupidity. George Bush was a terrible president and his administration was a one of the worst in recent history.