Quinnipiac University Poll: Obama worst president since WWII

[AggregateDemand]

By any objective measure, Obama is the worst. He inherited an economic calamity, created as much by his own party, who blocked US energy expansion, as it was created by Bush. Obama has been given $7T to fix the US economy. We have tepid growth rates below the rate of federal borrowing, unsustainable entitlement spending (still), and our automobile policy is incoherent and entirely dependent on EPA CAFE regulations.

He is the least effective president of the post-war era by a wide margin.

[AggregateDemand]

Dubya promoted the "ownership economy" based on people buying overpriced real estate through predatory lenders. That is unstable and unsupportable, and such doomed us to have the worst economic meltdown since the 1930s.

Energy expansion is a cannibalization of economic resources. Energy is a substitute for labor, and heavy use of energy cuts into job growth.

Americans are not going to buy the gas-guzzling vehicles of the 1970s.

Your post would be less ridiculous, if you would look at homeownership rates in the US. Furthermore, the US is not afflicted with Dutch Disease, nor do you appear to understanding the underlying economics behind the theory of Dutch Disease.

The USD had its highest relative value during a period of oil contraction.

[AggregateDemand]

Barack Obama polarizes America because of what he is.  

He is incompetent, without any justification, and that's what turns people off. He's an intelligent person, who went to Yale and seems to have respectable moral discipline, yet he fails quite spectacularly to wrangle Congress or achieve anything, without rampant deficit spending.

This is the story of Barack Obama, they guy who looks good on paper, but who gives in to his self-indulgent political impulses to the detriment of the nation.

I understand why people defend him, but he is easily the worst post-WWII president.

[AggregateDemand]

Foreign policy -- disaster.
Economic stewardship -- atrocious.
Maintaining credibility of the US -- awful.         

If Bush, or any other president, had access to the kind of cash Obama is pumping through the economy, he'd be hailed as the greatest president since WWII.

Obama may be the first post-WWII president to run deficits higher than GDP-growth throughout his entire presidency. He's also the most prolific spender in history, and his solution to every problem seems to be more transfer payments.

He earned a J.D. from Harvard. He does not lack intellect, nor does he lack political capital. Obama underachieves because he prefers political indulgence to leadership. He's useless as a president.