SURVEY: WHICH GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT DOES OBAMA MOST...

[redstate_democrat]

a) sound like
b) look like
c) have policies like
d) inspire like
e) brings the kind of change we need like

[Clio the Leo]

1. The man is an archetype in the making.....

... and that is why he's so wonderful.

[az chela]

2. His speeches remind me of JFK who

I never tired of listening to

[GoesTo11]

3. George Washington

Hard to explain, but it is not a hard answer. Washington just did the right thing courageously and competently, without desiring it for himself. He stepped up when the time was right and he stepped down when it was right. A steady hand. Judgment. Gravitas.

[theoldman]

4. I will repeat a reply to a previous post.

Obama has the charisma of Kennedy, the political shrewdness of Clinton, the civility of Lincoln and the wisdom of Jefferson.

[mth44sc]

5. that about covers it

n/t

[Genevieve]

7. yes. nt

[abumbyanyothername]

6. I would just say that BHO is

most like FDR in policies.

Sounds and looks like JFK.

Inspires like Bobby and Martin (I know these guys aren't Presidents). Abraham Lincoln? (post mortem)

Brings the change we need like . . . . . I think the jury is still out here. Obama needs to bring us energy independence and that is likely to involve some short term pain. I have to see if he is up to slapping $1.00 or $1.50 per gallon gas tax on us, and if he can sell that to us. That is definitely what we need. I hope he can do this.

[Historic NY]

8. I agree .

[Recursion]

9. Flame suit on: Reagan

Not policy-wise or ethics-wise (thank God), but communication-, vision-, and getting-cross-party-support-wise. He understands the communications media today the way Reagan understood them in the 70's and 80's.

It's trendy to compare him to FDR but in a lot of ways that doesn't work: FDR was the last really aristocratic President and still had that sense of Dieu et mon droit and noblesse oblige (and probably some other French stuff). And FDR was a lot, lot, lot more confrontational than is Obama's style. Reagan governed by shaping the narrative about issues rather than being right on points; that's Obama's style too. He's like a version of Reagan that is good instead of evil.