There is one way in which Obama is worse than Bush. Habeas Corpus is disappearing in the US where Bush incarcerated "enemy combatants" without due process, Obama is assassinating them. The recent American born cleric in Yemen, for example, is representative of the latest trend. This "enemy combatant" started as a moderate Muslim but grew increasing disenchanted with the US military occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, now Pakistan and Yemen with the latter two subjected to intense drone strikes.

The killing of Osama bin Laden without a trial is a bad precedent. We need Habeas Corpus in our judicial system to uphold the Constitution and not cede killing to the will of presidents.

it will be uphill sledding for Obama because people are waking up to some of the bad judgements being made by this administration.

Ron Paul would not be a good replacement for Obama because of his rigid domestic policies and gutting of regulation in the energy industry, education, and denial of unions. He also has a history of dubious racial attitudes, one notably, his criticism of MLK which extended further than the non-violent methods. Ron Paul won't make it because the Military Industrial Complex will not allow it.

Wall Street and the Pentagon want Willard Romney because as a self-confessed "flip flopper" he is easily manipulated by these interests.

Romney vrs. Obama for 2012. He might bypass the Tea Party despite his Mormonism.