# Obama and Bush: What makes "competence" in a President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 11, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-bush-what-makes-competence-in-a-president/489105 "2009-03-11T19:18:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-bush-what-makes-competence-in-a-president/489105/30 "2009-03-13T07:41:57Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Who’s your potential Reaganesque figure, by the way? Of course you will laugh, as they did at Reagan, but Palin has a few years to burnish the image and read “all the papers”. She has personal magnetism, the base loves her, and she can make a good speech when she wants to, (wink). Hey, it’s four years away. Lots can happen. Unlike El Rushbo, I want Obama to succeed. At helping the nation, that is. I just don’t think his aims are congruent with that end. Thus my prediction that he will be a one-termer like Jimmy. Obama wants to cement the Democrat majority, by making us all serfs to the public employee unions. I could name a certain Govenator that plays the same damn politics. We are now trying to remedy that here in California. Like always, we lead the way here… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-bush-what-makes-competence-in-a-president/489105)._