What do you guys think?
Is he the major reason for Trump?
Worst, no. With the exception of the ridiculous Rube Goldberg Obamacare law he's not really done much of consequence except for adding a few trillion of new debt for dubious "stimulus" plans quickly and properly abandoned. His best feature was the one probably least appreciated by those who elected him - he had a George H.W. Bush type presidency with no huge crises and no real transformation which is a good thing. Like Bush Sr. he didn't really move the ball for his party's pet causes very much (or really try even). 20 years from now people will struggle to remember anything beyond one or two things they did (Gulf War in one case, Obamacare in the other).
This would be far more interesting and less trollish thread if your bottom question was the subject.
And no, he's not responsible for Trump. What you're seeing with Trump started with the populist rise after TARP that that ultimately became the Tea Party. But the GOP establishment was able to hop on and grab the reigns and keep it going in generally the direction they wanted even if they weren't in complete control. But that beast is loose now. And that's entirely because over the past 35 years the GOP has been doing less and less for the rural blue collar types that are the core of their voting block.
All time? No. This decade, yes.
Umm does not compute.. we haven't had another president to compare him to this decade..
Umm does not compute.. we haven't had another president to compare him to this decade..
What exactly would you have Republicans (or Democrats for that matter) "do for" those rural blue collar types?
The poll is dumb, there is a lot of territory between "the worst of all time" and "he's quite good". How about he's terrible and one of the worst, but not the absolute worst.
Yeah? What's the worst thing he has done and what president was that worse than?
some may say add more debt than the combined debt of every president before him
It's hard to choose the "worst" President. You have Andrew Jackson who ignored a Supreme Court order in regards to Indian relocation and the Trail of Tears. You have Nixon who committed treason in regards to Vietnam before he came in office (and of course the scandal that got him kicked out and so many other horrible things he did). You have Reagan who committed treason while in office with the Iran Contra (there's a shit ton of other crappy things, but treason tops the list). You have the Japanese internment with FDR (no matter how much else good he did, this is hard to overcome). And of course you have good ol Dubya and the too many to count idiotic things (none of which are as bad individually as the things listed before, but they add up when there's just so fucking many).
Honestly Obama could probably rank in the top 15 Presidents of all time just for how well he did despite the single most obstructive opposition party in American history and for how well he got us out of the second worst financial crisis in the nation's history. Top 10 might be pushing it.
Though it is amusing that 3 Presidents who should absolutely be in the top 10 (maybe even top 5) worst of all time are 3 of the last 5 Republican Presidents (the previously mentioned Reagan, Nixon, and Bush 2).