It sure is.
I prefer Obama. He is an incompetent wanna-be tyrant.
Putin is a competent wanna-be tyrant. He’d already be a full-blown tyrant, but it will take time to rebuild the Gulag Archipelago, the NKVD, and find his own Beria to run it all.
The competent one will implement the tyranny sooner and much more securely than the incompetent one, with much less chance of failure.
So between the giant douche and the turd sandwich, I guess I’d have to go for the giant douche.