- Obama=Lincoln Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe at Newsweek write, "It is the season to compare Barack Obama to Abraham Lincoln. Two thin men from rude beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft and timing."
- Obama=FDR David Kennedy at Time writes, "Obama, too, came to office in the midst of an economic crisis, and in the solutions he has offered, it appears he has often looked to the example of F.D.R., whose presidency — and the very idea of activist government that it represents — is very much back in the public mind this year."
- Obama=Carter Bahukutumbi Raman at Forbes writes, "Barack Obama might turn out to be another Jimmy Carter, whose confused thinking and soft image paved the way for the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran."
- Obama=Reagan Politics Daily's Lou Cannon writes, "Reagan, like Obama, had inherited an economic mess, with record peacetime levels of inflation and high interest rates...Reagan was more popular than his policies, a point that is true now about Obama."
- Obama=Clinton Politico's John F. Harris writes, "The staff of a winning presidential candidate is a cult. When the
candidate wins, the cult usually follows him to the West Wing. That
happened with Clinton, and it has happened even more with Obama."
- Obama=Bush In a piece title "George W. Obama" The Washington Post's Jackson Diehl writes, "Washington has spent the past couple of weeks debating whether Barack Obama's ambitious agenda and political strategy are more comparable to those of Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. Oddly, hardly anyone is talking about the ways in which Obama is beginning to resemble the man who just vacated the White House."
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