PE Obama has already beat George W. bUsh's 8 years in approval ratings.

[LynnTheDem]

"The public's rating of his leadership skills is already as high as George W. Bush's was after 9/11 and easily beats the numbers that both Bush and Bill Clinton got at the start of their first terms in office."

He also gets higher marks than Bush did in 2001 on honesty, values, issues, management abilities and compassion.

Poor George W. bUsh; such a total loser.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/31/obama.leadership.poll/index.html#cnnSTCText

[Clio the Leo]

1. Gotta love that last one....

... "compassion" will get you VERY far in life. It's that empathetic nature Barack has that will make him such a great leader.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Must be fewer hard core Republicans and/or nutcases than there use to be.

[Lex]

3. He's won them over.

Not sure if that's a good thing or not, to have the nutcases on your side. I guess we'll see.

They sure hated Bill Clinton, but still Bill was a very effective president.