I don't know how I would rate Obama. Rating presidents seems pretty hard. He sure inherited a mess but it seemed the solution was to rack up enormous debt. My understanding is America has 20 trillion of federal debt. Assuming maybe 100 million Americans pay any significant federal income tax that is 200,000 of unsecured debt per tax paying American. Then you add in unfunded liabilities it all gets scary. On the other hand what kind of carnage do you get if you don't bail the whole thing out? Presidents also have to work with or against congress. One of the knocks against Reagan was that he increased federal debt significantly but he had to give something up to get the tax cuts ie not cut spending. LBJ was in power during an expansion of civil rights but it seems the war on poverty was lost. I like Reagan. When he took the Presidency America sure seemed discouraged and when he left things sure seemed to be lifted up.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot