So, there are all the claims of Obama’s lack of ability; so what did other Presidents accomplish in their first 9 months? How does he compare?
Ordinarily, I’d put this in GQ, but since it’s about Obama, GD is probably better.
Little early don’t you think? His biggest moves are in Congress and the Senate. After they get enacted we can decide. Then if he gets out of Gitmo and Iraq ,I will be pleased. Next escape Afghanistan. Much to do, so little time.
Isn’t that the point of the OP? In this early time-frame, where various parties are crying “incompetent! Ineffective!” and the like, how does he compare to the first nine months of other administrations?
I, for one, would like to know how Chester Arthur stacks up. 
I don’t have an indicator for past presidents, but a list of what he’s done (insofar as kept campaign promises) can be found here:
I would also include compromises, since that’s what politics are about:
But aside from that he got the stimulus through and is looking like he’ll get health care reform.
Obama has fallen behind Bush II in the race to get federal judges confirmed in the first nine months of their respective administrations:
He has had a lot of problems to deal with. He had an economic crisis to deal with and 2 wars to get his hands wrapped around. I can see why he has not had an opportunity to deal with the judges yet. He still has to grapple with regulating the financial thieves. The generals ,(surprise) want more troops in Afghanistan. He has big burner problems.
He deftly managed the DTV switch in his first weeks in office, so there’s that too.
He is also seriously behind on vacations and brush clearing. ETA: He has also failed to make Dan Quail seem smart, Nixon seem honest, nor Reagan seem competent.
Well, he’s doing a hell of a lot better than William Henry Harrison, that’s for sure.
I understand he was awarded the Nobel Prize (!) while I was out hiking around Ladakh. If “achievement-wise” includes being a passive recipient of a back-patting, that makes him the champion pattee, as far as I can remember.
Now if by “achievement-wise” you mean accomplishments that make a lasting positive difference in the world, well wouldn’t we need to wait a while to get to the “lasting” part (and for that matter, get some sort of perspective on the “positive” part)?
Congratulating him at this point for anything is a disease of sycophantic back-slappers and fawning Nobel-type committees, neither of which is Mr Obama’s fault. However the world seems full of folks who seem to confuse plaques with achievements. Certainly my own corporate world is a testament to that.
Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize!
You can’t really do a comparison like this. For one, it isn’t really all that important what a President has done at X point in his Presidency, it’s more about the totality of his impact. That isn’t something that I feel can be properly analyzed until years after the fact. There’s an inevitable lens of politics in looking at recent history.