Obama has another problem with 2012 that Reagan and Clinton didn’t have.
On the international scene, nobody screwed with Reagan because they were fearful of US military might, and believed that Reagan would use it.
Clinton came around at a very lucky time; China was not yet a world power, the USSR had collapsed and the “2nd World” that opposed us in the Cold War had vanished. The Moslems were not yet the problem they are now. Plus, Clinton’s predecessor had just put on such an overwhelming display of military superiority in the Gulf War that no one dared challenge us. So on the international scene, he wasn’t tested.
This is different. The world’s leaders know 0bama is weak and won’t fight them. They also question American power as being weakened by our economic status as the world’s #1 beggar state. 0bama is going to be challenged. While that challenge will give him a temporary spike in his approval as Americans always rally around their leader in time of crisis, we all know that handling a real crisis is above his pay grade. The only thing he can do is use his toadies in Congress to ram through socialist legislation. When a real crisis comes (I mean a really bad one, not just an oil leak), he’s going to fail worse than Jimmuh Carter. And the American people will dump him, just like Carter.
Henkster, is Obama going to have issues when it comes to getting on the ballot in states that have passed laws forcing candidates to prove they are eligible to hold the office for which they are running? If he doesn't get on all the ballots, the inference alone will condemn him to a landslide.