"Obama is the best president of my lifetime."

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33. I disagree

At age 45 I've been alive through Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and Obama. Even though I'm not thrilled with Clinton either. Nevertheless I think President Clinton did a better job than President Obama. "Its the economy stupid." Remember?

One of the posters above mentioned about President Obama:

People forget that he not only had to contend with Republican opposition to each and every idea he had, he had to contend with their racism and disrespect for the office. After all that, he continued to handle himself with grace and intelligence.

First of all dealing with "Republican opposition" comes with the job. To use that as an excuse is like a race car driver trying to use "traffic opposition" getting into his way on the race track at each and every turn. Sorry, but, that's part of racing and how well you deal with traffic is part of what determines how well of a race car driver you are. Similarly how well a President deals with political opposition in Washington reflects on how well of a President they are. And I think there's too much making up of excuses for Obama's ineffective ability to deal with political opposition.

Also the poster above mentions: "he (President Obama) had to contend with their racism and disrespect for the office." President Clinton had to contend with their obsession to destroy his Presidency as well. How many millions of dollars and how many years did "Republican opposition" spend trying to destroy President Clinton? Remember the Republican picked and lead "independent counsel" by Kenneth Starr? They doged President Clinton at least as much as they have President Obama if not more. But Clinton was still able to get a balanced budget and deal with foreign policy issues such as Bosnia, maintaining containment of Iraq, reprisal attacks against terrorist camps in Afghanistan, etc.

I might not agree with or like everything President Clinton did while he was in office, but, IMO he was a more effective President than President Obama is.