JOHN W. DEAN Predicting the Nature of Obama's Presidency FindLaw columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean makes predictions regarding Barack Obama's impending presidency, based on work by scholar and author James David Barber. Barber divided presidents into four categories based on whether they perform actively or passively in their political roles, and whether their feelings toward those roles were positive or negative. Dean deems Obama an active/positive president, and George W. Bush an active/negative president -- and explains how Bush's characterization accurately predicted important aspects of his presidency, and how Obama's characterization may do the same. Dean also notes which other presidents fell into the same categories as Obama and Bush, and how those presidents fared.

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