Where will Barack Obama be ranked in 20 years?

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Almost assuredly a top ten President.

[Mr. Smith]

11-20, possibly 21-30.

He failed on practically everything he promised, or half-a$$ed it and allowed himself to be walked over, which allowed the Republican all minority, Senate minority, and now majority to be the true power of this country.

If Bill Clinton isn't in the top 10, if Jimmy Carter is somehow in the 30's, and George W. Bush is languishing at the bottom, and he responds to polarization the same way as either of them...the top 10 is definitely out.


And since he seems to be pretty much being Bill Clinton 2.0 minus the welfare backstabbing and slightly stronger in the pursuit of civil rights, he'll probably be somewhere between 15-17...at best.



If he had actually passed Single-payer healthcare, then he'd make it. But he waffled that.

[Lief 🗽]

Top ten easily, unless the economy randomly crashes in the next ten years. I'd probably put him around 8 or 9th.

[Free Bird]

Mediocre leaning towards bad

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Undoubtedly top 10.

[Maxwell]

Lower middle of the pack. Far more favorable than most of his potential successors, for sure, but still.

[Intell]

Top 10

[MurrayBannerman]

Either 11-20 or the upper end of 21-30. I don't know how anyone could say top 10.

[ElectionsGuy]

Can we stop praising Obama and actually be objective about things? By historian ranking he'll probably be average.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Either 11-20 or the upper end of 21-30. I don't know how anyone could say top 10.

[TNF]

Depends on who's doing the ranking

[Beet]

It's premature to be making such assessments. If we had been making one at this point in his predecessor's presidency, we would have missed the Iraq surge and the 2008 economic collapse altogether.

[free my dawg]

Somewhere around the upper tens.

[Foucaulf]

Three steps below wherever LBJ is.

[SPC]

Almost assuredly a top ten President.

This, thought that is more a testament to the allegiances of most historians than an honest assessment of Obama's competence as chief executive.

[Vosem]

Obama will still be President for 2 more years -- 1/4 of his entire tenure. Some of the first things that will come to mind in the future when "Obama Administration" is said have not happened yet. So it's impossible to say.

[Antonio the Sixth]

What Lief said.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Benghazi

[Gass3268]

Probably high teens.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

anyone saying "be more objective, look at his failures etc." are forgetting how bad the average POTUS is. Obama being merely OK would promote him to the upper echelons.

[Mr. Smith]

anyone saying "be more objective, look at his failures etc." are forgetting how bad the average POTUS is. Obama being merely OK would promote him to the upper echelons.

Upper echelons yes, but absolutely NOT the top 10 which tends to be reserved more for those who go ALL the way one big issue and make it (such as LBJ and the Great Society, JFK and the Moon, FDR and the New Deal, Eisenhower and the Interstates)

[TDAS04]

At least in the top 20.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Depends on who's doing the ranking

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

anyone saying "be more objective, look at his failures etc." are forgetting how bad the average POTUS is. Obama being merely OK would promote him to the upper echelons.

Upper echelons yes, but absolutely NOT the top 10 which tends to be reserved more for those who go ALL the way one big issue and make it (such as LBJ and the Great Society, JFK and the Moon, FDR and the New Deal, Eisenhower and the Interstates)

Well LBJ did additionally go all the way in one other "big issue", but not one that I would, err, support.

[IceSpear]

Probably 11-20.