People judge a president based on greedy self-serving gut reactions. Name the top 3 things people dislike about this president, or would have wanted him to fix. Regardless of who is asked, the response is almost always self-serving.Why on earth do you portray opposition to the policies of this President as "greedy self serving gut reactions"?
My point continues to be that there must be an established method of evaluating a president's actions. Unfortunately, many Americans are incapable of that goal. People get rabid when discussing this topic, focusing on non-specific insinuations and desires that are not goal-oriented, both of which you just produced. Citing failure because his solutions haven't worked is short sighted for the simple reason that there existed the strong probability that NO SOLUTION would have worked. For anyone.
Let's parallel this with a topic most people aren't so rabid about. Imagine for a moment you needed to evaluate the efficacy of local school systems in educating children. How would you start such a process? Do you listen to the lunatic in the back row screaming "I don't like how the basketball coach makes decision!" and base your evaluation off that? No. You come up with verifiable standardized methods of evaluating schools. Practically, this is done with standardized tests compared across the country. Note how this does not take into account which colleges are attended by high school seniors, or what professions are eventually attained. No, these end results are actually completely ignored, while the effort and extent of the potential, being the knowledge itself, is what's evaluated.
So my point has continued to be: create a specific standard with which to evaluate the president. The lunatic screaming about a bad economy being blamed on the president is similarly a poor method of evaluation. Again, smart Americans will look at the value of the attempt being made, not the outcome.
We are evaluating this President is on his handling of the economy. I say that because the economy and unemployment specifically are overwhelming given by the American people as the issues that they are most concerned about.
As for your claim that "smart Americans" will look at the value of the attempt being made, not the outcome? No offense but that's amazingly condescending. What you're saying, in essence, is that anyone who finds fault with this President's "results" is a "lunatic" and unintelligent because all that should REALLY count is that Obama made an "attempt" to fix the problems we face. I'm sorry but when you lobby for a job by promising that YOU have solutions and then your solutions don't work then YOU are going to have to face the consequences of not delivering on your promises. You can't turn around when you've been unsuccessful and demand praise because you've made an "attempt". People in leadership positions are judged by whether or not they can get things done not on whether or not they "tried".