[Azred]

Personally, I think he's all-right. At the very least, I don't have any complaints. I was just speculating about his falling popularity numbers and the fickle nature of the American public.

The only things I would do differently right now would be to scale back the military operations in Afghanistan (honestly, I think any sane person would conclude that we're not likely to capture bin Laden in the near future) and stop trying to construct a National Military Police. There is nothing anyone can do to stop the economy except recover their own sense of security; corporations have been using any accounting trick to make their results better for centuries and will continue to do so, so "shaky" investors should get over it.

Good times make good Presidents; bad times make bad ones. Historically, this is true. Many political scientists state that Carter was an excellent President, but he was in office during a really bad time (just after Vietnam, signed away the Canal, the hostages were taken in Iran, and the economy was in really poor shape).