A historical perspective: Dubya was a complete failure

[TaraJo]

And sadly Obama did not learn a damn thing from Bush's failure.

Actually, read the article. While Obama isn't finished with his presidency and we therefore can't judge him yet, they can make guesses about him as of now. The areas where he ranks especially well tend to be areas where Bush ranked especially low (communication ability and intelligence).

However, Obama hasn't been able to make a lot of changes, largely because of one of those negative traits that Dubya had that carried over to the current class of Republicans: inability to compromise. The only really significant bill he's been able to pass has been the health care bill and the Democrats even removed the public option from it (personally, I think a public option by itself would have been a big step towards fixing our health care problms). So far, their inability to compromise has kept the Bush tax cuts, even though the great majority of the public want them to expire and they haven't had a single little bit of guilt holding the national economy hostage to preserve tax cuts for the Koch brothers.