It all depends on who receives the blame for the default, if the default occurs. I remember a few weeks back public sympathy was against the Republicans as far as blame on the debt ceiling talks, but who knows which way everything will swing?

If Obama gets shackled with the title of "let the country go broke," then yes, he'll fall in with the other presidents who oversaw economic disaster and fell, namely Hoover and Van Buren way back when

Protip - read website before linking to them

"Though Americans rate Obama poorly for his handling of the situation, they are less approving of how House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are handling it. Gallup does not include ratings of Congress or congressional leaders in its Daily tracking, and thus, there is no overall job approval rating of Boehner, Reid, or Congress directly comparable to Obama's current 40% overall job approval rating."

Unlike in Australia, you do not have proper opinion polls. They are meaningless. If 40% approve of Obama and 1% approve of his competitors, then he's going to get re-elected. 40% approval rating does NOT mean that the other guy has 60%

You're not doing much to help non-Americans look good here.  I'll give you a free pass since it's more difficult for non-Aermicans to have common knowledge of the differnt between personal consumer debt (credit card, loans and mortgages) and the public held created by the government (borrowed from foreign central banks or 'printed' by the Federal Reserve Bank).

I would advise you not to consider Americans any more stupid than any other nation as we don't own the market on idiocy.  It's a global issue.  Ignorance (which isn't an insult, it just means uninformed) is a human problem regardless of your nationality.   I hope the fact you misunderstood the concept of personal debt and public debt exemplifies what I mean.

As for Obama's rating, it is historically low on many poll data...not just Gallup.  Congress isn't doing any better, in fact it's worse.  However, that's usual.  Congress usually has a lower rating than the president.

Obama's problem with voters is that while campaigning for election, he promised to end all wars (instead, he's entered more without congressional consent), promised to deal with the deficit (his actions have increased it and his debt ceiling plan would increase it further), he promised all legislative bills would have 5 days of public viewing online prior to congressional vote (3 years in and not a single bill was publsihed online at all), he promised to deal with the Patriot Act (he's actually extended it) and he's more than he's gone back on.   He said a lot to get elected and done none of them or made them worse.    

Worst president?  No, not at all.  But still far from a good one.

Default isn't the real issue.  Even fi we don't default we are losing a triple A rating unless we cut 4 trillion from the budget.

While the economy has been in a recessionary trend for the last 6 months.

The Debt ceiling is just the red herring issue everyone has been focusing on.

It could be worse Australia's PM Julia GiIllard had a 29% approval rating last time i checked, trailed in preferred PM and her party labor has the lowest levels of support in nearly a hundred years.

Oh and for perspective.

Obama is 40%vs 41%, 9% unsure vs "Generic Republican Candidate."

Going into his election campaign....

George W. Bush was like 40 % VS 50% with 10% unsure.

Accounting for inflation? 

Speaking as a Brit and as a non-expert so I may not know the finer details, continually raising the debt doesn't look like the solution to anything. If all you do if raise it everytime you reach it, whats the point of even having one? A limit is just that, a limit! Both sides are still fighting for their own causes and failing to compromise. Feel they need to accept that they need to make a few (potentially) unpopular decisions like raises taxes and cutting speanding (in suitable areas), but as far as I can see, both parties are still fighting a popularity contest rather than actually governing. 

After reading your article and your beyond biased statements, I think it is safe to say that your not only being ignorant by saying Obama is the worst president in american history, but your also showing that you know very little if anything about politics at all.

Whether or not you want to admit it, President Obama has done alot more good for this country than Bad. Also incase you did not know, The Bush administration added more dept to this country than any other president ever in history with over 4 trillion dollars added in national dept.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162-4486228-500803.html

Next time your gonna post some BS like this please be sure to tell the entire story instead of being biased like Fox News...

where do you think americans came from? americans are europeans who saw it fit to migrate to america killing most of the people who originally lived in the area ( later secluding those who remained to small patches of land ) and taking the land as their own... btw in case you didn't know before europeans took over america blacks weren't found there... guess how they got there... because america was a major player in the slave trade... and even now years after the end of the slave trade europeans and americans continue to rape africa, where do you think all of raw materials for chocolate, diamonds, oil etc come from? heres a tip most doesn't come from america or europe

Every dollar made is a percentage of debt. the government borrows money from the federal reserve bank as bonds. then the federal reserve makes money out of thin air. Now the only way to pay of this new debt is to make more money which makes more debt. the creation of the federal reserve has some blame in it too. since money don't worth gold anymore, dollars worth nothing but air now. literally speaking