Your points:

1. Bush also had a timetable for withdrawal.  If Obama does succeed in implementing his, it will be a major success, but at present the Jury is still out.

2. Reversing the most idiotic of Bush's ideas was a success, I grant you - although how anyone was to believe the shield was directed at Iran is beyond me.  Obama would have run into serious problems with his NATO allies if he had tried to implement the policy in any case.  Don't forget Bush got nowhere near actually doing anything on this, and perhaps (if we are to attribute a glimmer of intelligence) it was all intended as a means to force Russia into a more accommodating stance on other issues.  I.e. it was negotiating foreplay and never intended to be implemented anyway.

3. I also mentioned above.  However if it is rejected by the Senate it may count for nothing if Russia withdraws in response.  Obama's credibility, stature, and ability to negotiate will be undermined if he is shown to be someone who can't deliver on deals reached.  With the Dems likely to lose 4/5 senate seats this fall, he doesn't have much time left to get it ratified.

4. I gave Obama credit for under his domestic achievements in my opening paragraph although obviously it had an impact on the world economy as well.  Don't underestimate the impact of the BRIC countries on world recovery. Also Don't forget that my basic thesis was that Obama hadn't changed foreign policy all that much from the Bush regime.  TARP, as you point out, was also a continuation of Bush policy... albeit a more positive one.

Overall I don't deny Obama makes better speeches and has better intentions - a more multi-lateral and less bellicose approach - although it can be argued he had no choice but to change due to the spectacular failure of the neo-cons/Bush regime.

His record of actual achievement is very thin to date however, and it's much to early to say whether he will achieve much in the rest of his term.  His habit of not really leading from the front - until he absolutely has to - means that the speed of progress will be determined by a few centrist dems/republicans and the MIC and much of his early momentum/capital has been squandered at this stage.  

His impact has been much less than hoped for by the rest of the world, and his effective endorsement of Israel's act of war against humanitarian civilians was the last straw for me.  Don't forget that this will have profound implications for how others will deal with America. Effectively the US has now lost the boost to its prestige it received with his election.  In terms of international influence the USA is back to a Bush level of influence.

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