Obama's Real Legacy: Ten Ticking Time Bombs.  Our 44th president is a political albatross and increasingly reminds one of the hapless Jimmy Carter in his final, miserable days.  Indeed, the parallels with 1980 are eerie:  Russia on the march, Iranian mullahs chanting "Death to America," the economy stuck in the doldrums — and so on.  At this late date it's hard to see how Mr. Obama could alter the judgment that his has been a failed presidency.

Is Obama as Bad as Carter?  No, He's Worse.  Conservatives have long attacked President Barack Obama by comparing him with Jimmy Carter.  Obama seemed to be following in Carter's footsteps, becoming a failure both at home and abroad.  That comparison is mistaken, however.  Obama is far worse than Carter.  "I think of Jimmy Carter as the good old days," said former ambassador and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Bolton.

High Five! The Obama Economy Now Equals Jimmy Carter's.  For those who lived through the four torturous years of the Jimmy Carter Presidency, the Obama regime is starting to look more and more similar.  Growing world-wide terrorism, bowing down to Iran, government spending out of control, high gas prices, environmentalists' catastrophic warnings, Russia on the march in Eastern Europe, and high unemployment — these all could be describing the Carter or the Obama years.

Obama's even worse than Jimmy Carter!  It's official. Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst president in American history.  The crown of shame has been passed from the former peanut farmer to our weak, lead-from-behind community organizer, whose lack of foreign policy experience and gravitas has come into full embarrassing display.

Obama is Betraying the Republic's Trust.  [Scroll down]  The only person grateful for this should be Jimmy Carter, who can now relinquish the title of worst president in modern history.  I thought I would never live to see anyone worse than Carter in the White House during my lifetime.  I was wrong.

Comparing President Obama to Jimmy Carter is an insult to Carter.  Jimmy Carter has had a long-standing reputation as authoring the most ineffective foreign policy of any modern presidency.  To be honest, Carter deserves better. [...] In no corner of the world had Obama seen more setbacks than in the Middle East.  And he is running out of time to clean up his mess before leaving office.  Most of what Obama has broken can't be fixed.  But he could give the next U.S. president a fighting chance by following Carter's example and doing something.  Reversing the atrophy of American military capabilities would be a start.

John McCain: Obama lets 'bad people' fill U.S. void, says Jimmy Carter was better.  In some of his harshest comments about the administration's lackluster foreign policy to date, Sen. John McCain said that former President Jimmy Carter was tougher with U.S. foes than President Obama has been, and that America's credibility as world power has crumbled under Obama.  McCain, the top foreign policy expert in Congress, said that U.S. credibility to lead the war against terrorist states cracked when Obama failed to make good on his threats against Syrian chemical attacks and when the al Qaeda retook Fallujah where the bloodiest battle in Iraq took place, killing 96 Americans and wounding 600.

Kasparov: 'Carter looks like Churchill in comparison' to Obama.  For running commentary on Russia and the vote in Crimea, you might want to follow chess champion turned democracy activist Garry Kasparov. [...] Tonight, amid his usual barrage of criticism leveled at Vladimir Putin, he's turning his fire on President Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.  Discussing President Carter's foreign policy, he compliments the former President's "Very tough stands on human rights."  President Obama, however, he gives lower marks.

Jindal: Obama is [the] worst president in history.  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) told the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Obama is the worst president of his lifetime — even worse than Jimmy Carter.  Jindal, a potential presidential candidate, jokingly apologized to Carter and to the conservative crowd for saying throughout the 2012 campaign that Obama was the worst since Carter.  "To President Carter, I want to issue a sincere apology.  It is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this country in my lifetime.  President Obama has proven me wrong," he said.

Jimmy Obama.  Vladimir Putin has taken the measure of Barack Obama.  He's found Jimmy Carter.  Like Jimmy Carter, who boasted he was free of any "inordinate fear of communism," Obama began his term as president vowing to "reset" relations with Russia.  Like Jimmy Carter, who conveyed weakness when Iran took our embassy staff hostage, Obama confirmed his own weakness when he drew a red line in Syria and then backed down from enforcing it.  Like Jimmy Carter, who was rewarded by Leonid Brezhnev with a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Putin has returned Obama's favor with a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Obama's Journey from Arrogance to Incompetence.  Having been president for more than five years, we can now render some reasonable and informed judgments about Mr. Obama, including this one:  he is an amateur on par with Jimmy Carter.

John McCain says Obama worse president than Jimmy Carter.  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday decided to add a little more oomph to his running criticism of how President Obama has handled the ongoing turmoil in Syria.  "I have never seen anything like this in my life," McCain told Phoenix radio station KFYI-AM while discussing the president's policy on Syria.  "I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president, in my opinion."

Carter worse than Obama? At least Carter didn't fib.  Many observers, including myself, have drawn unflattering comparisons between the disastrous administration of Jimmy Carter — considered by many our worst president ever -- and that of President Obama.  On reflection, I think we've been unkind to Mr. Carter.  While he had many faults, Carter seldom lied.

An Expert's Opinion: Jimmy Carter Hammers Obama for Ineptness.  When asked by Parade magazine how he would evaluate the Obama presidency so far, [Jimmy] Carter said this:  ["]He's done the best he could under the circumstances.  His major accomplishment was Obamacare, and the implementation of it now is questionable at best.["]  This is, as Guy Benson points out, a withering indictment from Mr. Malaise.  And on first blush, I thought, an unfair one, at least given the source.  Who is Jimmy Carter to indict anyone on grounds of incompetence.  And yet the more I reflect on it, the more I think Mr. Carter may be on to something.  What exactly are the impressive achievements of President Obama?

It's Official: Obama Has Surpassed Jimmy Carter.  Jimmy Carter infamously declared that America suffered from an "inordinate fear of Communism," but at least, as far as I can recall, he didn't actively promote or side with Communist movements.  Today Communism has collapsed, and America's number one enemy is the Muslim Brotherhood, progenitor of al Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist groups.  Barack Obama not only tolerates the Brotherhood — [...] — but, for reasons that remain unfathomable, he has generally supported it.

Jimmy Carter's ghost stalks Obama White House.  Vague terrorist threats shutting down nineteen of our embassies, Russian strongman Putin thumbing his nose at President Obama, Iran jerking our chain — the U.S. hasn't looked this cowardly on the world stage since the Jimmy Carter administration.

FDR, Obama and the need for opposition.  President Obama, although from a very different background than FDR, governs from almost the same sense of privilege.  Both presidents embraced the most impoverished as their power base, but seem to feel more comfortable personally when surrounded by millionaires and celebrities.  And in both cases, the poor have been willing to forgive a multitude of sins in their privileged leaders as long as the rhetorical alms kept flowing from the fount of noblesse oblige.  Indeed, it is the unworldly patience of the poor which allowed FDR to maintain power for so long while accomplishing so little of real value for the economy, and the same patience for President Obama which allowed him to maintain high popularity ratings throughout his first term even while his policies were dismantling the American dream.

Our President's Lincoln Presumption.  He swore his oath of office on Abraham Lincoln's Bible.  He has asked to give the State of the Union address on Lincoln's birthday.  He rode to Washington in 2009 on a train route similar to Lincoln's in 1861.  He has compared his critics to Lincoln's critics.  He confides to admirers that he likes to read the handwritten Gettysburg address that hangs in the Lincoln bedroom.  Barack Obama is inviting the world to compare him not just to good presidents but to the greatest in American history.

Rahm Emanuel Likens Obama to Lincoln.  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, likened Obama's values and "ability to see a clear road where everybody just sees fog" to President Abraham Lincoln as depicted in the 2012 Steven Spielberg movie "Lincoln."

Media Hype Comparisons of Obama to Lincoln.  One was a self-educated rail-splitter and circuit lawyer in humble frontier towns.  The other is an Ivy League-educated radical who only ventured out from his comfortable Hyde Park digs for some day work stirring up trouble as a "community organizer."  But to watch MSNBC is to learn that Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama have so much in common.

CBS boosts Obama adulation, likens President to Lincoln.  On Thursday's [11/15/2012] CBS This Morning, open Obama supporter Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell repeatedly prompted liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to equate the newly-reelected President Obama to Abraham Lincoln.

Lyndon B. Obama.  When it comes to offering progress reports on his war against ISIS, Barack Obama is beginning to sound like a previous wartime Democratic president.  It is not a flattering comparison.  Over the past few weeks, Obama has issued several upbeat statements crafted to assure an uneasy American people that the fight against terror is going well, only to have the facts come back and bite him.  He is starting to develop a "credibility gap," faced by Lyndon Baines Johnson during the Vietnam War.  LBJ and his commanders kept telling the nation that the war was going well when it really was not.

Barack Obama Transformed into Lyndon Johnson So Slowly, I Hardly Even Noticed.  At Ricochet, Jon Gabriel posits, somewhat conspiratorially, "Obama Can't Afford to Win in Iraq:" [...] ["]Obama does not want to win his new Iraq war.  He can't afford to.  If the projection of American military power successfully solved the problem of Islamic terrorism, it would shatter Obama's entire worldview.["]  Well, so far, the recently retired president is doing everything he can to live up to that impression.

John F. Kennedy

Please note that the only person comparing Obama to JFK is Obama himself.

Why Obama Is Wrong to Compare Himself to JFK.  Speaking at American University today [8/5/2015] in defense of his nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama twice invoked President John F. Kennedy.  To paraphrase Lloyd Benson, while we did not serve with Jack Kennedy, here are five reasons why President Obama is wrong to compare himself to Jack Kennedy: [...]

Liar, Liar, World on Fire!  Obama loves to play dress up.  Sometimes he likes to play FDR, but his favorite costume is JFK.  By claiming to be FDR or JFK, he convinces Democrats that he is part of a historical continuity, instead of a horrible aberration, and that he is doing exactly what FDR or JFK would do if they were alive today.  The costumes make Obama seem American instead of Un-American.

Officials want Madison's City-County Building named for Obama, 'the JFK of our generation'.  Madison and Dane County leaders are hoping to inject a note of inspiration into the seat of local government by renaming it after the only president who ever set foot near it.  At a Thursday [6/15/2017] press conference, County Executive Joe Parisi announced the effort to christen the structure known for 60 years as simply the City-County Building as the President Barack Obama City-County Building.

Wisconsin Officials Want To Name Soviet-Style Building After Obama, 'JFK Of Our Generation'.  Local leaders in and around Madison, Wisconsin are seeking to rename the main county government building after former President Barack Obama — "the JFK of our generation."  The seven-story building is currently called the City-County Building.  It's a gray, soul-crushing, Brutalist slab of concrete.  Inside the dreary, Soviet apartment-style exterior walls — originally erected in 1956 — are administrative offices and a jail.

The Twenty Fifth Amendment & Barack Obama's Mental Illness.  Basically, we have a modern day Hitler in the White House.  No psychiatrist or psychologist would dare step up to the plate and call out Hitler as the mentally ill individual he was.  It would mean their lives.  And I'm sure just as there would have been 10 psychiatrists who would declare Hitler mentally ill, there would have been 10 who thought the man sane.  Unfortunately, this is what the United States is facing.  And, the excuse of "we were just following what we were told" will be the mantra of those engaged in perpetrating this ruse, just as those on trial in Nuremberg claimed.

Top 50 reasons people keep comparing Obama to Hitler.  As Democrats continue viciously crucifying anyone who disagrees with them as Klansmen, suicide bombers, anarchists and misogynists, anyone who dares to notice the similarities between our Constitution-shredding Black Panther-in-chief and other racist dictators is still being met with the same hysterical shrieks, convulsions and fainting as always from the book-burning tyrant-worshipers of the left.  But Obama's lawless, un-American attacks on dissent, rigged elections and appalling crimes against the Constitution are overwhelming and unmistakable at this point, and more than warrant such comparisons.

A Criminal Enterprise Called the Democratic Party.  In the wake of the Great Depression, the wheels began to come off the Weimar Republic, a liberal democracy that had been in place since the end of World War One.  In 1930 President Hindenburg assumed emergency powers.  By 1933 three Chancellors had preceded Hitler and when the Nazi government took over it simply ignored Germany's constitution.  A lot of scholars who know much more about the U.S. Constitution than I are increasingly speaking out about the same scenario occurring here.

Fury as billboard appears in small town showing Obama with a Hitler mustache.  A controversial billboard in a small Indiana city that pictured President Barack Obama with a small, black Hitler mustache has drawn the ire of many residents, who say it goes too far.  The billboard ran this weekend on a prominent digital marquee in Kendallville, Indiana, a town of 9,800 people.  The advertising space was purchased by a controversial political group that opposes modern banking and believes Obama is helping to spark the Third World War.

Obama's Speeches are Chilling.  [Adolf Hitler] was, quite likely, the greatest orator of the 20th century.  Here in the 21st  century, we have another great orator.  He, too has to power to move his listeners to act while disregarding consequences.  He, too, has worshipers — some who even refer to him as "Lord and Master."  His Name is Barack Hussein Obama.  And he is President of the United States of America.

Adolf Hitler — Progressive Pioneer.  [Scroll down]  Hitler and the Nazis also were very involved in picking winners and losers among Germany's corporate and manufacturing concerns, swapping preferential treatment, government contracts and loans and policies that benefited specific well connected and supportive companies in exchange for political and financial support for Hitler and his policies.  In essence, Hitler made sectors of German business his partners in building the Third Reich while suppressing other, non-supportive players... certainly a tactic we've seen used recently with great success.

Obama's Jonestowns.  [Scroll down]  Like so many Democrats, Obama among them, Jones worked to aggravate race relations in America, not improve them.  To that end, Jones had his people write hateful, racist letters and attribute them to lesser white people.  Obama likewise worked to intensify the fears of black America, as he famously did at Hampton University in June 2007, when he reminded his listeners that the Republican administration did "not care about" them or consider them "part of the American family."

Yes, Nixon was bad but Obama is worse.  No man, Nixon's critics assured us, was above the law.  For his transgressions, Richard Nixon was forced from office, evading prosecution only because of a presidential pardon.  Yet by any reasonable measure, Nixon's sins seem venal compared to those of President Barack Obama.  Nixon's men illegally wiretapped his political opponents — and they went to jail for it.  When the FBI used warrantless surveillance to wiretap and intercept the mail of anti-war radicals, those who did so were charged, tried and convicted.  Obama has used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to guarantee any surveillance the government wants without probable cause.  Nixon spied on a virtual hand-full.  Barack Obama' s NSA wire-taps the entire nation and monitors the e-mails of thousands.

Obama's Psychological Tapestry.  Some of Obama's personality traits and emotional characteristics were fairly obvious early on; others have emerged front and center during the course of his presidency.  In some ways, the most comparable modern president to Obama is Richard Nixon.  That is to say, Nixon's presidency was powerfully defined by, and ultimately undone by, Nixon's psychological flaws, including his paranoia and insecurities.  Mr. Obama's personality profile is quite different, and in some important respects healthier, than was Nixon's.  But not in every respect.  Mr. Nixon, for example, was less prone to create and live in a make believe world than Mr. Obama.

Past Democrat Impeachment Charges Sound Like Obama.  Has Obama been "making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States"?  Well, if you liked your health plan were you able to keep it?  Has Obama caused "income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner"?  Ask the Tea Party groups seeking the tax-exempt status that were harassed by the IRS during the 2012 presidential campaign, and are still being persecuted.  Has the federal government conducted "electronic surveillance or other investigations for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office"?  Only under Obama has the U.S. government conducted bulk collection of law-abiding Americans' communications records, spurring even liberal Democrats to join with Republicans on comprehensive legislation to stop the practice.  All of the above quotes are excerpted from the three articles of impeachment that were hanging over Richard Nixon's head when he resigned from office in 1974.

Following the Trail Nixon Blazed.  Nixon tried to use the Internal Revenue Service to go after his political enemies — although his IRS chiefs at least refused his orders to focus on liberals.  Nixon ignored settled law and picked and chose which statutes he would enforce — from denying funds for the Clean Water Act to ignoring congressional subpoenas.  Nixon attacked TV networks and got into personal arguments with journalists such as CBS's Dan Rather.  Nixon wanted the Federal Communications Commission to hold up the licensing of some television stations on the basis of their political views.  Nixon went after "enemies."  He ordered surveillance to hound his suspected political opponents and was paranoid about leaks.

Watergate Revisited? A hard look at the Obama-Nixon comparison.  [Victor Davis Hanson] has a point that civil libertarians who railed against Republican presidents have given Obama a pass (on such issues as NSA surveillance, I would add).  But Nixonian conduct is an awfully high bar to clear unless you can show that a president personally condoned lawbreaking.

The Editor says...
The writer excuses the Obama administration's abuses of power by claiming that Mr. Obama wasn't directly involved in those abuses.  I find that impossible to believe.  At the very least, he must have been an accessory after the fact, abetting and supporting the use of the IRS as a weapon.

Even the mainstream media has given up on the hopey-changey stuff.  There was a time when Obama couldn't get a bad headline in this town.  Now he's the new Nixon. [...] When Nixon was stuck in Watergate he used to escape to friendly territory to meet with his few remaining admirers and console himself with their loyalty.  On Wednesday the President of the United States took time off work to visit two Chicago Democratic fundraisers — the cost of flying aboard Air Force One to his home town was an astonishing $180,000 an hour.  He met with 70 friends at the home of longtime supporters Bettylu and Paul Saltzman, the kind of fans prepared to spend $32,400 per head to have dinner with the Prez.

Light fades to dark as Obama wipes away sweat.  Born in obscurity to far-from-rich parents, Obama and Nixon both used their wits to rise to fame early, but while Obama adapted quite early to ruling-class mores, Nixon saw himself as a lifelong outsider, despised by the press, the establishment and the people who mattered, forever imperiled, circled by foes.

Pentagon Papers Lawyer Thinks Obama Is Worse Than Nixon.  James C. Goodale [... compares] Barack Obama to Richard M. Nixon.  "Nixon and Agnew were like listening to a Fox News program all day long, every day," he said.  "In their eyes, the Eastern establishment press were against them and they were against it and they were going to destroy it as best they can."  But, he said, "Obama has all these things that he's done to the press on national security matters that Nixon never did."

Lawless in office.  Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who is presiding over a lawless administration.  Like Tricky Dick, the Obama administration has an "enemies list."  The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that its agents deliberately targeted conservative, Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel Jewish groups, denying or blocking their requests for tax-exempt status.  During the 2012 election cycle, the IRS — under the direction of its Washington office — became an arm of the Obama regime to persecute its political opponents.  The agency abrogated personal freedoms and violated numerous laws.

Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal.  President Obama's second-term campaign slogan was "Forward," but instead we've got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.  That sounds like "backward" to me.  All the way to, say, 1972.

Obama is the closest thing to Nixon we've seen in 40 years.  In my lifetime, in over 40 years in national politics, Mr. Obama is the only president who comes close to rivaling Richard Nixon for fundamental disingenuousness.  However, some things never change, just as Woodward and Bernstein were attacked then by the establishment mainstream media for daring to question a president — or do a story that they wouldn't touch — they are once again attacking Woodward the way they did when he and Carl Bernstein pursued Watergate.

Barack Milhous Obama.  What prior administration does the Obama administration most resemble?  In its early days, there is a surprising contender:  that of Richard Nixon. ... The Nixonian note was sounded again in the Obama administration's response to Republicans who are pressing for information on the firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.  It appears that Obama's firing of Walpin was both illegal and politically motivated, and his aides are circling the wagons, hoping the issue will go away without their having to provide information to Congress.

Richard Milhous Obama?  In a television interview last October, President Obama accidentally let slip a key element of his political philosophy:  "We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us." ... This incident is worth remembering as the president prepares to issue a far-reaching executive order that would require the government to collect detailed information about the political activities of anyone applying for a federal contract.

On the other hand...
Obama Is Not Nixon.  For one thing, Nixon, whatever his flaws, was a great president.  No creditable witness is saying that about Barack Obama.

Obama: Muslim, Napoleon Bonaparte redux or worse.  [Scroll down]  Napoleon represented a nation which, during the French Revolution, had become largely secular.  Obama's America, under His "leadership," is becoming largely secular.  Napoleon sought, and Obama seeks, each in his own way, to promote himself as deserving the approbation of Islam.  Napoleon sought power and glory by lying.  Obama does much the same, but He most often lies to the denizens of His America.  In the years immediately following the French Revolution, France was considered a great nation.  When Obama took office, America was as well.  Although some still celebrate America's freedoms from tyranny on Independence Day, during the Reign of Obama she has become less free and large numbers of "His people" have become increasingly dependent.

President Barack Obama and Napoleon Bonaparte.  The overall intent of the Founding Fathers was to avoid the defects of the British system of the 16th and 17th centuries.  Until the Bill of Rights was passed in 1688, laws might be made by proclamation of the king, who could also suspend or dispense with laws.  James I in 1610 declared he had an inherent authority to assert power in the absence of legislation.  Clearly, the new political system of the United States was intended to avoid this extreme position, and Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper 70 argued for a more restrained presidency.

Obama Instructs the Court.  No one wants a Captain Queeg in the White House.  But Barack Obama combines his egocentricity with an almost boundless intellectual arrogance.  It is one of the primary reasons his presidency has been so devoid of successes and so filled with failures and disasters.  Only Woodrow Wilson comes anywhere close to being in the same league.  The reason, as Noemie Emery points out in the Washington Examiner, is that men like Obama and Wilson can't learn from their mistakes because they cannot admit, or even conceive, that they can make mistakes.

Lyndon McCain Meets Woodrow Obama.  The man who advertised himself during the 2008 campaign as a "constitutional law professor" although in fact he was a part-time "senior lecturer" at the University of Chicago and does not have a Ph.D.  Be that as it may, Obama regards himself as a constitutional law professor, and during that campaign was given to making statements like this one, made at a March 30, 2007 fundraiser:  ["]I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.["]  In all of American presidential history, only one other chief executive could claim similar if decidedly more serious academic credentials.  That would be, of course, the 28th president — Woodrow Wilson.

Top 5 Ways Barack Obama Is No Nelson Mandela.  The comparison is so crude as to be laughable, but given the mainstream media's immediate linkage of the two, and President Barack Obama's insistence on talking about himself in his eulogy for Nelson Mandela, it must be said:  Obama is no Mandela.

The Shape of Things to Come.  President Obama's vow to seek support in Congress for his proposed deal with Iran reminds us of the Norway Debate.  This is the argument that erupted in the Mother of Parliaments in May 1940, after the Nazis invaded Norway.  When the debate began, the architect of the Munich appeasement, Neville Chamberlain, was still prime minister.  By the time it was over, Chamberlain was out and Churchill had been handed up as the war premier.

Appeasement in Our Time.  Is Barack Obama another Neville Chamberlain?  I've been reluctant to make the comparison, but as talks with Iran have unfolded, it's become impossible not to think of the 1938 Munich conference, where Britain and France agreed that strategically and economically vital Czech territory be ceded to Germany, leading soon after to German conquest of Czechoslovakia and World War II.  America's looming deal with Iran rivals Munich in its unnecessary and catastrophic recklessness.  It is an inexplicable unforced error that will have disastrous consequences unless Congress, or Israel, does something to stop it.

John Bolton: Obama weakest president since Buchanan.  On Saturday [8/31/2013] on the Fox News Channel, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton harshly criticized President Barack Obama handling of the United States' involvement in Syria, calling him the weakest president since James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln's predecessor.

ABC's Stephanopoulos Finds It Credible Barack Obama Can Be Another Ronald Reagan.  Without laughing, ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday's [1/20/2015] World News Tonight advanced the White House hope that Barack Obama will be seen as Ronald Reagan was in 1987, as a President who rescued the economy and was rewarded by voters.  Opining on the President's political mission at tonight's State of the Union speech, Stephanopoulos said the goal was for Obama to convince the public that the economic "recovery is sustainable.... and it's because of the work that he did over the last six years."

Reagan and Obama: The difference between a hero and a zero.  Obama is not a public servant; he is our public master.  If you are in Hawaii, don't go swimming or take a boat out near King Obama's retreat.  Not only is he living luxuriously at the taxpayer's expense, but if you enter the security zone that the Department of Homeland Security has established in the Kailua Bay area, you face 10 years in prison.  Kings and tyrants tell the people where they can and cannot go.  Public servants respect the people who have entrusted them with the leadership of the nation.

Reagan vs. Obama: It's not even close.  On each and every key indicator, Reagan outperformed Obama by a wide margin. [...] The Obama years will be remembered as a wasteland of bad decisions, corruption and incompetence, and missed opportunities.  To compare the Reagan and Obama years is informative: it reminds us of what we once had, what we could have again, and how bad it is today.

'Forward!' They Cried.  "Socialism and fascism are both forms of statism, forms of government in which the government is given complete or extensive control over the lives of its citizens."  Though they do have some technical differences, fascism and socialism are basically the same.  Both socialism and fascism are vehemently opposed to capitalism.  (By the way, this article provides a very good examination of socialism and fascism.)  So?  Why this history lesson, you ask?  What about socialism?  Simply this:  it's amazing the similarities between Hitler's and Mussolini's socialism, and that of Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., along with their views on capitalism.

Obama and Morsi: Separated at Birth.  In Cairo, Morsi scribbles his decrees and in Washington DC, Obama scribbles his.  There is an ocean between the two men, but there is a good deal that they have in common.  Both are ideologues who piggybacked on public outrage over the national impact of international economic declines to climb to power and pursue their true agendas. [...] But Obama is not an American and Morsi is not an Egyptian.  Obama is a Progressive and Morsi is an Islamist.  Their approach to anyone outside that circle is limited to distinguishing between potential converts and useful idiots.

5 Reasons Barack Obama is a Creep.  Is Barack Obama the Vladimir Lenin of American Presidents?  No, Lenin was competent in an evil sort of way.  Obama is more like Leonid Brezhnev:  an ultra left-wing, belligerent doofus who isn't laughed at by the general population primarily because the mainstream media liberals say nice things about him out of fear that they'll end up in a gulag if they're too harsh.

A President Loses His Power.  President Obama is not Saul Alinsky or Richard Nixon — aware of how one gets power and uses it, or self-aware when he loses it or faces the greater power of others.  He is more Louis XVI, believing power is his birthright.

Forcing Christians to Eat Pork.  [Scroll down]  This brings us to a similar situation in our time:  King Obama's contraception mandate.  The issue was ginned up during the 2012 campaign to rally Democrat support, but that battle has been won and is water under the bridge.  Nonetheless and quite bizarrely, Obama insists on trying to force religious employers to fund contraception for their employees, despite the fact that offering such individuals an exemption would cost him nothing politically and would accord with the American tradition of respecting deeply held religious convictions.

Barry Soetoro used to be a dope-smoking troublemaker, just like Trayvon Martin.
How Obama Truly Was Like Trayvon Martin.  The Huffington Post has perfected the smear technique of expressing shock and anger at things that conservatives say which make complete sense and are factually based. [...] [Sean] Hannity said he wasn't sure how to interpret Obama's remarks because "he was part of the Choom Gang and he smoked pot and he did a little blow" and "we know that Trayvon had been smoking pot that night."  Obama, of course, was not deliberately comparing himself to Martin because of their common interest in smoking dope.  But the comparison by Hannity was not unreasonable [...]

Obama's Dangerous Racial Hang-ups.  When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon," it perhaps didn't say much for him as a parent.  And when the president now says that Martin could have been him "35 years ago," it doesn't say much for him as a youth.  Of course, we know that Choom Gang Obama smoked marijuana like Martin.  I wonder, though, did he miss 53 out of 90 days of school and get suspended 3 times during that period?

Incidentally...
The more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser, finds international study.  International research has revealed that the more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be lower paid and have relationship difficulties.  The study followed children from birth up to the age of 38 and found people who smoked cannabis four or more days a week over many years ended up in a lower social class than their parents.  It also found that regular and persistent users ended up with lower-paying, less skilled and less prestigious jobs than those who were not regular cannabis smokers.

President Obama, Meet Warren Harding.  In sum, this is the most lawless administration since Warren Harding's ninety years ago.  Except those scandals came from below as Harding was, to put it mildly, a hands-off administrator, mostly interested in wine, women, and poker games.  The Obama administration is very much a top-down administration.  And the Harding scandals were mostly about money (Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, accepted bribes in the Teapot Dome scandal and became the first cabinet secretary to go to jail).  The Obama scandals are all about political power, protecting it and increasing it.

Obama's 'in-the-dark' defense.  President Barack Obama is briefed each day on a wide range of domestic and international issues, yet when it comes to major controversies, his administration's response is often the same:  the president didn't know.  The most recent appearance of the tendency came Sunday, as the Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was unaware of the National Security Agency's surveillance of foreign leaders until earlier this year.  The story came on the heels of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's claim that the president didn't learn of the problems with HealthCare.gov until after the site's Oct. 1 launch.

Our Know-Nothing President.  In recent days, President Obama has claimed ignorance about spying on allies and the ObamaCare meltdown.  How can it be this president is always the last to know whenever anything goes wrong in his administration? [...] Ridiculous or not, pleading ignorance has become routine for Obama whenever a scandal arises.  Just last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Obama had no idea there were any problems with the ObamaCare exchange before it went live on Oct. 1.

Barack Obama: The Most Uninformed President in History.  This weekend, we learned that President Obama "didn't know about" NSA spying on world leaders, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  He also "didn't know about" the posthumously obvious problems with the rollout of the ObamaCare website exchanges.  According to the New York Times, these problems were evident eight months ago.  Yet, it seems, they never made it to the President's desk.  President Obama was also completely unaware that the IRS was subjecting conservative organizations to undue scrutiny on their tax-exempt applications. [...] President Obama also, presumably, was unaware of the Justice Department's program to allow Mexican drug gangs to purchase military-grade arms from the US.

Barack Hussein Machiavelli.  Something tells me the president is not a regular reader of the New Criterion.  But perhaps, in between his regular servings of Jonathan Chait, Ezra Klein, and Josh Barro, he snuck a peek at the October issue of the conservative arts magazine.  He might have scanned an essay by Harvey Mansfield, "Machiavelli's Enterprise," on the legacy of the first modern philosopher.  It's a legacy that very much includes the president.

Does Obama Have Any Idea What Is Going On In His Own Administration?  One of the books on Chappaquiddick describes how the Kennedy brain trust gathered at the family compound in Hyannis Port to plot a strategy to salvage Ted Kennedy's career.  One person conspicuously absent from the conclave was Teddy himself.  He was on the beach, flying a kite.  The family's advisers considered him too stupid to make any contribution to saving his own skin.  Is that how senior members of Obama's administration treat him?  Is he considered a useless fifth wheel?

Barack Obama and the Last Czar.  This summer, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, has been bait for all manner of comparisons and commentary.  So let me add one more as President Obama enters the last 29 months of his term in office, a century after Czar Nicholas II of Russia did the same.  The two men — unfortunately — share a remarkable number of traits, which doesn't bode well for the country or the world at large.  Nicholas, you'll recall was the last Czar of Russia who led his country to disaster.

Dinesh D'Souza compares Obama to Shakespeare's Othello.  Dinesh D'Souza has claimed that President Obama is a 'resentment organizer' who relies on the politics of envy to stay in power.  The controversial filmmaker claimed that the President taps into 'the vicious hordes of human resentment' in an outspoken lecture in which he compared him to Othello.

Barack and The Donald — Separated at Birth (sort of).  Barack Obama and Donald Trump have more in common than once favoring single-payer national health plans.  They are both thin-skinned.  Neither ever says he's sorry or expresses regret.  Instead they blame and deride others.  Now for Obama this behavior has been vastly more consequential.  His refusal to acknowledge having called ISIS the jayvee team, the lies surrounding Benghazi, the further prevarications surrounding Obamacare and the absolute failure to admit anything wrong after he abrogated his chemical-weapons red line with Assad (resulting in hundreds of thousands of Syrians now swarming into Europe) are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

White House compares Obama to Pope Francis.  Pope Francis and President Obama have both dedicated their lives to helping the less fortunate, and that commonality will be central to their meeting Wednesday during the pope's first visit to the United States, a White House spokesman said hours before Obama left to greet the pontiff as he landed at Andrews Air Force Base Tuesday afternoon [9/22/2015].

CBS Spins Pope and Obama as so Similar: Both Are 'International Celebrities'.  Pope Francis and Barack Obama have a lot in common, at least according to CBS This Morning on Wednesday [9/23/2015].  Reporter Major Garrett skipped over disagreements like abortion and the health care mandate and instead connected:  "Pope Francis arrives defined at least in part by his humility, also as an instrument of change within the church and an international celebrity.... President Obama knows a thing or two about change and celebrity."  Garrett continued to link the two, insisting they met on Tuesday "far away from the poor corners of Buenos Aires where Francis first ministered or the streets of Chicago's south side where Barack Obama first organized."

Trump: Just Another Grifter.  Dennis Miller perfectly described Barack Obama as a "debonair grifter."  Donald Trump is just a grifter without the charm.  Given the performance of these two men, it is difficult to understand the emotional (yes, emotional) attachment of their followers.  A minority of us doubted Obama's promises for many good reasons.  For example, there were Obama's own words in two autobiographies.  There were Obama's associations with, among others, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers. [...] Obama and Trump share several traits.  They are both narcissistic.

Cleaning up after Obama and Hillary.  Obama and Hillary in some ways are mirrors of each other; in other ways, photographic negatives.  They're alike in that the focus of each is self — self with a vengeance, in a way so exaggerated as to escape the comprehension of normal people.  Each thinks him/herself the smartiest pants in the room, maybe even the world, perhaps even the galaxy.  Both have perfectly average intelligence, scant talent, zero common sense and no zest for anything that resembles productive work.  His phony cerebralism counterpoises her readiness for hardball.  His towering disdain balances her sneering contempt.  His ideology-driven cast of mind opposes her criminality.

Beto O'Rourke

Beto 2020? Obama Compares Himself to 'Impressive' O'Rourke.  Beto O'Rourke's recent U.S. Senate loss has done little to stop speculation that the Texas Democrat could soon be announcing a 2020 presidential bid — and if he does run, it seems likely he'd win the endorsement of former President Barack Obama.  In an interview with David Axelrod for The Axe Files on CNN, the former U.S. leader heaped praise upon O'Rourke, calling him an "impressive young man who ran a terrific race in Texas."

Obama Compares Himself to Roosevelt: 'Conservation Has Been a Cornerstone of My Presidency.  President Obama warned on Thursday [9/1/2016] that despite his efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, it's "not going to come to an immediate stop."  "We know that there is still going to be an inevitable impact as a consequence of rising temperatures.  And that means conservation has been a cornerstone of my presidency."  Obama even compared himself to President Teddy Roosevelt, as he addressed the 2016 Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders in his home state of Hawaii.

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Mr. Obama said this in Honolulu, Hawaii, [8/31/2016] immediately after returning from Marthas' Vineyard and then reluctantly traveling to Louisiana for a half-hearted photo op.  Mr. Obama certainly hasn't conserved jet fuel during his presidency.

Dangerous Times: Obama Surrenders.  Obama is the anti-Reagan.  He is the anti-Lincoln and the anti-Truman.  Reagan, Lincoln, and Truman never lost track of the moral high ground.  This administration has never found it.  What seems to motivate Obama and his kind is a bitter hatred for all that is good and decent in America.  It is an inversion of values, driven by demagogues like Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright.

Nemesis, After All.  The young, inexperienced, but haughty Obama is a stereotypical figure right out of Greek mythology.  Sometimes he is poor arrogant Icarus — flying too high on his frail and melting waxen wings.  Or is he arrogant young Phaethon?  The latter demanded the reins of his father's sun chariot — only to end up in flames as his out-of-control divine car scorched the earth (unfortunately we are the earth).  Often Obama seems a know-it-all Oedipus who believed that he was so smart that the far older world of chance and fate had to yield to his superior reason.  Or is he vain Narcissus, so taken with his image in the reflecting pool that Nemesis allowed him to stare forever transfixed at himself?

Edward Snowden has exposed both the ambition and the incompetence of Obama's security state.  They said that if you vote Romney you'll get a return to George W Bush.  Well, Romney may have lost in 2012 but people got Bush all the same — Obama has cheerfully continued and expanded the authoritarian policies of Dubya.

Why the United States is a Dying Country.  [Scroll down]  Barack Obama, as did Mussolini, Lenin, Mao and Hitler before him, has the ability to visibly remain above the fray, appear as the champion of the people and manipulate the emotions of an ill-educated populace.  In the case of Obama he has the further benefit of being able to exploit the racial guilt embedded in the American society.  In keeping with many of the tactics employed in Italy and Germany in the 1920's and 30's — and many other nations since, Barack Obama and his fellow travelers in the Democratic Party have, over the past five years, followed in the footsteps of these despotic regimes — all of which have ended up on the ash heap of history.

Have You Noticed Liberals Always Compare Obama To Republican Presidents?  Lincoln united a divided country, Obama has done everything in his power to further polarize Americans against each other.  Reagan turned around a dismal economy, Obama has made things worse.  Frankly, if liberals are as proud of Obama as they claim to be while wiping the drool from their chins, why do they never compare Obama to Democratic Party presidents?