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Originally Posted by KSigkid
I agree with your point to a certain extent, and I should have clarified my own point a bit better. You're correct in that, in many ways, Presidencies are judged based on comparisons to others; how did this President deal with this situation as opposed to previous Presidents, etc.
My main point is that what you hear from some Obama supporters is "Well, you can't criticize Pres. Obama because Pres. Bush was terrible." I think that's where the comparisons have to stop; we can't give Obama a free pass because of the perceived shortcomings of the Bush presidency.
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Really, no one can criticize President Obama because it hasn't even been a GOOD month yet and to judge now based on a few weeks in office I think is a sad mistake.
To be quite frank, even 'the First 100 days" at this point with what we have to dig ourselves out of is not a good enough of a measuring stick to judge where this is going and we are in quite a different position than what we were in when Bush first took office.
I honestly believe it will take a year before anyone can adequately gauge where Obama's presidency will stand.
And I agree no free passes but being negative just for the sake of being negative is a mistake also.
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