Maybe in your opinion. At least Bush played the cards he was dealt, as opposed to blaming his predecessor. It would have been easy to blame the early 2001 economic issues on the Dot Com Bust, which happened under Clinton. It would have been easy to blame 9/11 on Clinton's slash & burn approach to defense spending and ineffective handling of Somalia.
But he didn't do that. He just dealt with it.
Obama, on the other hand, has spent three years blaming Bush. I'm sure his name will continue to come up in the run-up to the election.
Oh, and on the war funding?....
Since you're such the constitutional scholar, I'm sure you realize that it is Congress who decides if a war is funded, right?
Maybe you should ring up Nancy and Harry and ask them why *they* chose to continue funding the war with deficit spending. They could have cut off the money at any time.
Or, you could just accept the fact that they were happy to take it off budget so that they didn't have to be accountable for anything, just as they've continued to prove in the last three years by never coming up with a budget.
No, I'm pretty certain that Obama has proven to be an ineffective leader. You have to lead to be a leader, even if it's in the wrong direction.