http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/25/obama.carter.reagan/index.html After the newness and glamour of having Obama as president has worn off people are finding parallels with Obama and other former presidents. Jimmy Carter was one of the former presidents being compared. Critics claimed that Obama like Jimmy Carter didn't have much political experience but came at a good time when people were looking for change and a new face with new ideas. Another similarity was when Carter was first in office he had a very high approval rating but once he was there for a while it dropped down over 30 percent. Obama's not doing so well in the polls right now either. Critics are predicting that now that people have seen Obama cannot change the world as quickly as they expected there will be a drastic shift in the scheme of power and people will begin to vote for more republicans because they're so sick of Obama's broken promises.
Different critics have said the comparison to carter is weak and that one with Ronald Regan would be more appropriate as Ronald Regan also came into political power in the midst of a large war. However due to Regan and Obama being opposite parties many think the similarities stop there.
So while you could make connections between past presidents and the one we currently have, the fact of the matter is none of them are really the same.They may have similar ideas or circumstances to deal with but people are just trying to compare them to try and predict how America is going to turn out and no one can. No one knows what will happen next because while history is important it cannot tell us our future.
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