A question for black Americans.

There are charts online comparing/ranking presidents online as stated my many american magazines or simply search "president ranking". Try searching for them, it might come to a surprise to you. But If I remember correctly Obama never fell under the top 15 best presidents. Bush on the other hand constantly stayed between 30-35. As you can see Bush scored lower than Obama. Here's the thing, I think Obama could have been a great president, it is just that he became a president during a very bad time. It is not that he chose the time, it is that someone had to be chosen to take a seat at that time. To me, it doesn't matter who became the president, they would all have done a very bad job during a very bad time. I think Obama could have handled it much better than McCain. You cannot state that Obama doesn't care about them, or anyone. I was watching George W. Bush remembering 9/11 last night, premier. He said he made specific choices during his presidency that may have appeared he didn't care, but he stated that he was the best choice for the country during those difficult decisions. People who don't know will never know how difficult it is to be a nation's leader. People can always just judge them on how they perceived them. Most of us can just make 1 to 2 decisions about our daily lives, The leaders have to make many in one seating and have to calculate the results in the future. Not all results will be amazing, but the results should be able to sustain the country without destroying it completely. Yes USA is in a bad spot, but it is not completely destroyed. Yes USA owes a lot of money to China, but even China is in the top 3 most in debt countries. With that said, I could easily make the argument that all the world leaders are bad, because of how terrible the state of the world is. But they are not, they are just caught up in a bad time, especially economically.

I don’t think that President Obama is the worst president we ever had those honors would have to go to former President Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, and his son George W. Bush. By far, these three former presidents were some of the worst presidents America has elected in its history. Yes, President Obama has made some missteps in dealing with the economy. We can place the blame anywhere we want to, but you must admit that other presidents before President Obama ruin this economy. President Obama biggest mistake was getting healthcare reform passed instead of tackling the economy first. I don’t see President Obama as a dictator or a traitor to this country after all it wasn’t Mr. Obama who wanted the Patriot act, eavesdropping on American citizens without a court order or setting up TSA who does these invasive pat downs at airports. According to the most recent Gallup Poll President Obama's job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference . Obama's job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve. Why? The same reason whites support their presidents because they represent them. If President Obama was from any other race that race would back him just on that basis. So, don’t say it’s not about race because it is. I’m not throwing in the towel on this president yet. He’s got at least one more year to get this economy going again. If he fails to reverse the damage caused by his predecessors then he will be a one term president.

Why do republicans speak of George W. Bush (a man who took away the right of the people to decide health under MEHPA; took away our civil rights under the Patriot Act II; and took the world to war in Iraq based on lies upon lies, resulting in unnecessary deaths of thousands and the expenses bringing the nation to its knees) as a great president?

Im canadian, so I dont follow alot in your politics, not closely atleast from what I see on the news, but you have to commend Obama a little bit. With all of the damage Bush did its hard for a country to jump back from all that destruction.

"Why do blacks give him an 88% approval rating?" Because he's half black.

I'm going to let most of the above comments stand on their own. I especially like the ones that rip your opening paragraph since it is personal bile trying to hide as some kind of fact. The only fact, and the root of the question, is the approval rating. This has to be viewed in the context of the day and not compared to any other standard. For instance, someone above already commented on how, despite the low approval rating, Obama ranks fairly high on a Presidential rating scale. But leave even that aside and look at the mindset of the country as a whole. We are pissed at all our politicians right now. The approval rating for Congress is in the high teens, less than half that of Obama. We've even spawned a huge grassroots Tea Party Movement and noone in Washington is safe from our ire. But among "Black America", and I'm talking culturally not physically or I'd pass out from stooping to caveman terminology, there is still a pride and hope embodied in Obama. A figure around whom we should all be able to say "Wow, That's the American Dream". And your comment that Obama doesn't care about "blacks" is not only unfounded but ludicrous. The important thing is that people who indicated themselves to be "black" on the survey obviously didn't think that way. (And then there's the probable problem that the sampling size was too small to be statistically relevant, since this part is voluntary and I, for one, always choose "Other".) Then you end by saying "This isn't a racial question.It's a fact", but continue that next sentence with an opinion and a loaded question. I certainly took it the wrong way and I'm guessing quite a few other people would too. The possible implication is that you think "blacks" are too inferior to see some evil Obama conspiracy that is so obvious to you and your favorite commentators. Maybe you didn't mean it that way. Maybe you're truly curious, though the rest of your statements in getting to that question are obviously biased against Obama so you don't come across as a person who wants more data to make up your mind. I don't want to get lost on another rant about the inacurately named "racism" and how subtle it can be from fear and hate. Perhaps I should stop here.

What I find unusual, is when I talk to different black people that are struggling, they say they did not vote for him and agree he is not right as a president. Not as a black man. And personally I won't even give him the gratification of rubbing elbows with black people. I guess I am from the Martin Luther King era and I sincerely wanted to see afro americans progress. But then you see when we were in a war together, we never saw color. We saw friends and buddies that would try to keep each other alive. While I embrace the afro american community, I don't embrace this man we call president. In fact I am glad I was in the Army when I was. I could not serve under someone as him I would go AWOL!

Oneidmnster, I strongly disagree with you. Obama is the first black president of the united states and he has done the nation proud but most american especially the white american are against him and they do not want him to succeed. They were patience with George Bush (I and II ) Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, etc but here is a black man and all the white in america are just ganging up against him. If a white man become president today, he can not perform more than what Obama is doing. I think it is high time Obama is giving sufficient time to execute the bold policy his adminstration is carrying out for all americas. George Bush drag america to an endless war in Afghernistan, Iraq etc. But Obama is fighting for the good of all american, yet people are still crying foul of him it is rather too bad and unfair to Obama.

hey guys. all have a belief that that blackians have a good health and wealth than white people. this is due to the fact that that the black people have a good stamina and they work hard to achieve their goals. i am proud to be a black american... we can take example of the current us president barack obama to illustrate my ideas since he is one of the emerging hitters of the world