We need to be aware that many of the "people in the street" regard Obama as "the worst President ever".
I know, and it's boggling how they can believe this -- as if liberals had been running around whining that, say, George H.W. Bush or Gerald Ford was the worst president ever. I find a useful counter, when the boneheads are coming out with this tripe, is to ask them what Obama has done that they would have done differently.
This usually shuts them up, because of course they've not been paying attention enough to know what Obama has or has not done. Some will say, "Bailing out the banks" . . . at which point one has to explain patiently that this was the continuation of a policy started by their sainted hero Il Buce. ("No it wasn't!" "Go Google it.") Or there's healthcare reform, at which all one needs do is tell them to go find the relevant stats for things like life expectancy in Wikipedia. Or they could Google for frightwing dreamgirl Margaret Thatcher's numerous quotes extolling the virtues of having a National Health Service. Yes, the Iron Lady is to the left of Obama on healthcare . . .
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-07-15 10:37 pm (UTC)We need to be aware that many of the "people in the street" regard Obama as "the worst President ever".
I know, and it's boggling how they can believe this -- as if liberals had been running around whining that, say, George H.W. Bush or Gerald Ford was the worst president ever. I find a useful counter, when the boneheads are coming out with this tripe, is to ask them what Obama has done that they would have done differently.
This usually shuts them up, because of course they've not been paying attention enough to know what Obama has or has not done. Some will say, "Bailing out the banks" . . . at which point one has to explain patiently that this was the continuation of a policy started by their sainted hero Il Buce. ("No it wasn't!" "Go Google it.") Or there's healthcare reform, at which all one needs do is tell them to go find the relevant stats for things like life expectancy in Wikipedia. Or they could Google for frightwing dreamgirl Margaret Thatcher's numerous quotes extolling the virtues of having a National Health Service. Yes, the Iron Lady is to the left of Obama on healthcare . . .