Better Yet, Forget 'Better Off?'

This notion that Americans should be better off four years after President Barrack Obama took office is inherently corrupt, for it blatantly ignores the devastating conditions under which he took office.

 The recently-departed author/activist Gore Vidal once described America as the “United States of Amnesia.” We seem to have such short memory spans. And that’s the way the sideshow barker republicans like it.

 So, in typical condescending fashion, the phony conservative party leaders insist that Americans need only to base their presidential choice on an oversimplified, disingenuous question: Are You better off than four years ago?

 Never mind that this country was already losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month in the wake of the most disastrous and crooked presidency in history, when Obama took the reins at the White House.

  Of course, the House Republicans planned it this way. After the last two years in particular of obstructing the president’s every attempt to address our economic woes, they childishly and hypocritically point the finger at Obama and insist: “He did it!”

 

 Even the most powerful swimmer can only get so far in stormy waters – with a ball and chain clasped to his ankle. At least, President Obama hasn't gone under and taken this country with him. To the contrary, he may just be finding his rhythm.

Kevin McKinney