No, the conservatives basically abandoned Bush the minute he was out of office. They didn't speak fondly of him and still don't. Liberals began whitewashing him almost immediately after he left office when Obama began continuing his policies. Obama normalized everything that Bush did.
Obama was widely unpopular by 2011. His approval ratings weren't in the gutter like Trump's, but that didn't mean he was well liked. There was a popular meme that circulated the internet around that time, that had Obama and Bush's face merged together. Pretty much the only reason he won his re-election was because he could still give good speeches, and the Republicans ran Mitt Romney who was doing OK until the whole 47% thing, and on top of that, this was the height of the Tea Party. Had they run someone like Trump back then who is a loud mouth and would've been attacking Obama left and right, the GOP probably gets the white house in 2012. They still went on to blowout Dems in the 2014 midterms.
Libs have built a cult of personality around Obama, but outside of them, he was never that well liked. Normal people see him as a massive disappointment and some outright hate him. His image is kinda whitewashed in the past few years due to his presidency being in the middle between Bush and Trump, but even that don't change much. People will still bring up how he was president for 8 years and didn't accomplish jack shit but give us a shitty healthcare platform that was more or less a bailout to insurance companies.
No, the conservatives basically abandoned Bush the minute he was out of office. They didn't speak fondly of him and still don't. Liberals began whitewashing him almost immediately after he left office when Obama began continuing his policies. Obama normalized everything that Bush did.
Obama was widely unpopular by 2011. His approval ratings weren't in the gutter like Trump's, but that didn't mean he was well liked. There was a popular meme that circulated the internet around that time, that had Obama and Bush's face merged together. Pretty much the only reason he won his re-election was because he could still give good speeches, and the Republicans ran Mitt Romney who was doing OK until the whole 47% thing, and on top of that, this was the height of the Tea Party. Had they run someone like Trump back then who is a loud mouth and would've been attacking Obama left and right, the GOP probably gets the white house in 2012. They still went on to blowout Dems in the 2014 midterms.
Libs have built a cult of personality around Obama, but outside of them, he was never that well liked. Normal people see him as a massive disappointment and some outright hate him. His image is kinda whitewashed in the past few years due to his presidency being in the middle between Bush and Trump, but even that don't change much. People will still bring up how he was president for 8 years and didn't accomplish jack shit but give us a shitty healthcare platform that was more or less a bailout to insurance companies.