He followed an unpopular president. He received a strong election mandate. He changed the tone in Washington.

He said that Human Rights mattered. That America's image in the world had to be remade.

He would receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

As the end of his presidency's first year drew near, the future looked bright. He had brought change -- change that mattered.

It was 1977. The next year was very bad.

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I certainly hope he isn't...Carter had a few bright points, but over four years, he was a dismal failure.

I think Obama is the new Obama.

Before the last national elections, candidate Barack Obama promised to start a war in Pakistan; so for comparisons to President Obama, one might consider Pericles, the Athenian leader who started a war that almost destroyed the nation.

Edit: One might consider Thirteen Rabbit, the Mayan king who started a war and who did destroy the nation.

I think you could easily come up with that many fairly superficial comparisons between any two presidents.

Pericles and President have another thing in common. They were both liberal in the Machiavellian sense of the word, which means they both used other peoples' money to buy votes.

President Obama seems rather thin skinned about criticism. For that and at least one other reason, one might compare him to Othello.

It is too early to tell. If he fails, I would blame it all on media and world pressure. Nobel Peace prize? How can a man do his job knowing he is given such a high honor for something not deserved?

President Obama has inexperience and thin skin in common with John Kennedy. Kennedy didn't get much done, just like Obama. Kennedy got into a hissy over something is some newspapers, and he canceled his subscriptions. Obama is having a fight with Fox News.

Better be glad that Kennedy wasn't thin skinned when it came to Nakita Khrushchev. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Handling that took nerves of steel!