the trouble is that your best - worst list is going to depend on not just your political leanings, but also your policy leaning.
in fact likely more on your policy leanings, regarding what you think was the right thing to do in a given situation.
a good example is this healthcare reform, in Britain our healthcare reform was 70 years ago. at the time some people loved it, some people hated it.
now, most people love it, (even though it doesn't always work terribly well).
but the guy who dreamed it up does have his name remembered as a great minister, and the guy who put it in is remembered as a great socially reforming prime minister.
The problem with judging Obama now is that you don't know what effect his policies have had or will have, you have to wait and see in 50 years how he'll be judged.
to say he's great because he's got a load of his pledges through doesn't make him great, it's the substance of those pledges and the long term effect that will decide whether they were good ideas! and whether he was great for implementing them.
in fact likely more on your policy leanings, regarding what you think was the right thing to do in a given situation.
a good example is this healthcare reform, in Britain our healthcare reform was 70 years ago. at the time some people loved it, some people hated it.
now, most people love it, (even though it doesn't always work terribly well).
but the guy who dreamed it up does have his name remembered as a great minister, and the guy who put it in is remembered as a great socially reforming prime minister.
The problem with judging Obama now is that you don't know what effect his policies have had or will have, you have to wait and see in 50 years how he'll be judged.
to say he's great because he's got a load of his pledges through doesn't make him great, it's the substance of those pledges and the long term effect that will decide whether they were good ideas! and whether he was great for implementing them.