Valkenar
I have my own issues with the man.........but what I'm suggesting is how he was "
portrayed" could easily play into how he is viewed......not saying its "superfical".....I'm suggesting that even those that hate him might not hate him at all....or as much...if he was given the same kid gloves, protected, treatment by the press.
Take the window thing...Obama was not "standing in front of window" he mistook a window for a
door and tried to open it and go thu it.....then he stood there....just as Bush did.
And Bush NEVER mistook how many States there are in the Union......nor claimed that he VISTED States that actually don't exsist and that he would be visiting the REST of the States that don't actually exsist soon.
All I'm saying is that if the media was as much behind Bush as they are Obama its possible that all sorts of impressions might be very different.
One wag quiped that if Bush got up and walked across the waters of the Potomic River like Jesus himself the headline the next day would be
"Bush can't swim." 
Look at how the media and just about everyone else effectively buried the mans Africa policies....sure he did little in the PR realm himself-----something Bob Geldof pointed out amid HIS praise of Bushs actions there.
None of it made front page news, none of it made "youtube."
And lets look at something else you mentioned, you said:
"and makes fewer comically stupid verbal blunders"
In context with our discussion----maybe the reason Bush SEEMED to make so many "commically stupid verbal blunders" is that a media with a specifc agenda made sure that people heard them all----and
spun them in the in the
worst possible light.
Perhaps if the media had made
front page news of Obama not knowing how many States are in the Union, and
endlessly replayed his
verbal blunder you might feel differently about him.
(Heck Biden told a wheelchair bound man to "stand up"
---among a raft of verbal screw-ups going back
decades but
his "verbal blunders" were not taken to to indictive of the mans brains---go figure.
)
Perhaps if the media reported each and every error and slip of the tounge Obama made/makes, instead of
protecting him, you would feel differently........maybe.
How the man is preceived, is, in great part, by how the man was forced to fit a specific narrative by a media with an agenda
I didn't posit an argument, just a re-frame. 
