Sarah Palin explains the debate over raising the Debt Ceiling

[realthog]

Speaking on Sean Hannity's FOX News program:

"We cannot default but we cannot afford to retreat right now either. Now is not the time to retreat, it's the time to reload. And we reload with reality by giving facts and numbers to the American public so that those of us across the United States can start chiming in and letting our representatives know that we will not capitulate, we will not hand over more power, which I believe is unconstitutional, to President Obama to further manipulate our economy."

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[realthog.livejournal.com]

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 . . .