President B.O.'s slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter,... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet...
Well, Professor Reynolds keeps saying that a repeat of the Carter administration is a best case scenario.
earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.
To be fair, Carter hit 51 only because Americans will rally around a president in times of crisis, and at this point in his presidency Jimmuah was dealing with the Mad Mullahs™. Without that our last vision of the man would have been him and a killer rabbit, and an approval rating of 4.