Compared to U.S. Presidents from Truman to Bush, Obama stacks up well

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I woke up this morning to a disturbingly silly headline. President Obama is the worst president since World War II, according to a plurality of voters in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

When you look beneath the numbers, it's not what it looks like. Only about 33 percent of those polled called Obama the worst president, but that number roughly mirrors the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, a group which has tried to sabotage, block, sue and impeach the president in recent years.

As the Washington Post's Philip Bump reports today, the new poll numbers do seem to reflect some concerns about health care and the economy among young people and among those under 50. But there's also something else here, something closer to total hatred of the president by Fox News-viewing conservative Republicans over 50. And the passion of their venom skews everything . . .

Under President Obama, the unemployment rate has fallen from 10 percent in 2009 to 6.3 percent today. Under George W. Bush, on the other hand, the unemployment rate rose from 4.2 percent to 7.8 percent . . . Under President Obama, the U.S. economy is gaining 200,000 jobs a month. When Bush left office, however, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month.

Under President Obama, at least 24 million people have gotten health insurance. The rate of uninsured has declined from 18 percent to 13.4 percent and the rate for Blacks has dropped dramatically from 20.9 percent to 14.7 percent. And despite all the exaggerated GOP claims that Obamacare would be a "job killer," we've actually added more than 9 million new private sector jobs since the president signed the law.

Under President Obama, businesses are also booming again. In the first few weeks of his presidency, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was sitting at 6547. Today it's close to 17,000 . . .


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[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

I've read that literally ALL of those ranking President Obama "the worst" identified themselves as republicans. Little surprise there.

[Louisiana1976]

3. Exactly. Odd that the media blew this up to mean the majority consider Obama the

worst president since WWII.

[Peacetrain]

2. When history looks back.. it will be jaw dropping how much he accomplished

with not one ounce of help from the right..

And those who refuse to acknowledge the ground we have gained.. are losing a great opportunity to help point us forward

If a person cannot acknowledge how far we have come from the point we started.. we are always going to be spinning our wheels, and not get our butts in gear and move forward.

There is a LOT of work left to be done.. but only when we see how far we have come, can we check the map and make sure we are on the right direction..

Edit to add.. I think, no I know the right is invested in trying to keep any kind of acknowledgement of accomplishments because they see it as a venue to get the white house back, and then in the course of the first three months take credit for all that the Obama administration was capable of accomplishing without their help..you can take it to the bank

[liberal N proud]

4. This might explain all the propaganda otherwise.