Whisper it not in the corridors of the BBC, but the Obamessiah is less popular at this stage of his presidency than George W Bush was.

Although this is being widely reported outside of the mainstream liberal media and therefore wouldn’t normally be blogged on here, there are a few links worth passing on.

USA Today recently posted an interactive graph comparing approval ratings for each of the last 12 presidents. At this point of his presidency, Barack Obama ranks 10th. Harry Truman sported the lowest approval rating — 22 percent in February 1952, while George W. Bush boasts the highest at 90 percent just after 9/11, followed closely by his father, George H.W. Bush, at 89 percent following the Gulf War. Oddly enough, though Bill Clinton hit a low point of 37 percent in 1993, his high point of 77 percent came after he was impeached in 1998. So, while Obama’s approval is consistently getting worse, as The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto jokes, “All the president has to do is either go to war against Iraq or get impeached. If he can go to war against Iraq and get impeached, he could end up with approval in excess of 100%.”

The funny thing is that these comparisions wouldn’t have gained such wide coverage if a policeman who was an expert in racial profiling hadn’t correctly arrested a racist “professor” for being…um…racist…and labelled as “stupid” by a racist president.

Strange times we live in, eh?