A bucketful of yardsticks

[madamesilverspurs]

[rock]

1. I pay no attention to any republican's opinion of any black man

I think that's a perfectly sensible and sane position.

[Tanuki]

3. I don't either. Let's find a better use for that bucket of yardsticks...

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[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. Easy.

The approved yardstick for measuring president Obama is marked "W Bush, Clinton, HW Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, Hoover, Coolidge".

I would say Obama comes about three quarters of the way up it, around a bunch of fairly closely-clustered marks.

He's clearly been a better president than W Bush, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Hoover or Coolidge; he clearly hasn't been as good as FDR or Truman; comparing him to Clinton, HW Bush, Carter, LBJ, JFK or Eisenhower - the ones I categorise alongside him as "neither awful nor great*" is perhaps less obvious.


*The exception being LBJ, who has both much stronger negatives and much stronger positives than most of the rest, and I would categorise as both great and awful in different ways.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Too soon.