Barack Obama: Bill Clinton

Dwight Eisenhower Dept: It s unquestionably true that the achievements of immortals like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are beyond him. Aside from their own extraordinary qualities, these two lived in exceptional times when there were dragons to be slain, such as the Civil War and the Second World War, and no less so, slavery to be abolished and the Great Depression ended, according to The Star. Near-greatness, though, as by Dwight Eisenhower, and maybe also Bill Clinton, his star now constantly rising far above memories of grubby acts in the Oval Office, is quite another matter and most commentators reckon Barack Obama will have a hard time elevating his presidential ranking status from the not bad/OK performance he s generally accorded for his efforts so far, to the level of presidential greatness that he himself undoubtedly aspires to. The challenges Obama faced during his first term were important but not iconic winding down unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and wriggling free from a threatened depression, if only by plunging the country deep into debt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.