Where to begin with this borderline insane piece of rightwing doggerel. How about here:
First, Obama doesn't rely on rational description to persuade the American people, but rather on his — now seemingly shrunken — oratorical skills, without regard to substance.
Seriously? Remember that detailed September 2009 speech on healthcare, or even the recent speech on debt reduction? The most recent speech on energy at American University? You can disagree with these speeches – but, seriously, they are not pieces of "rational description"? You mean: compared with, say, Palin or Trump or the theological utterances of Santorum or the precise policy analyses of Mike Huckabee … or the Mission Accomplished speech of his predecessor? Then this breathtaking lie:
Obama is worse in another way. Though Carter had a mean streak, he was not prone to divide and name-call in the way that Obama has done. From his remarks about bitter clingers to his administration's increasing willingness to call any criticism racist, Obama's administration has been far more divisive than Carter's.
Is he out of his mind? Of all the public figures who are prone to divide and name-call, Obama is in the lead? The victim of one most vicious, constant, lying smear campaigns in a very long time is the one who name-calls and divides? See if you can find in Reynolds' archives any moment of criticism of Obama hate from, say, Rush Limbaugh? Or Glenn Beck? Or Sarah Palin?
I've given up trying to understand the pathological hatred of the most likable, genial and even-tempered president since Reagan. Oh and one small thing: Reynolds says that the ACA that will help insure 40 million or so people who have not had any health insurance has done "little for health" and the the stimulus package did "little for the economy." Of course, you can criticize elements of both these measures.
But, again, what were or are the GOP alternatives? No stimulus at all – even one which was one-third tax cuts; letting the depression gather steam until unemployment soared to its natural level; abandoning the auto industry and refusing to bail out the banks, precipitating a global depression. On health, leaving 40 million without any access to health insurance and turning Medicare into a voucher scheme, where the vouchers will not replicate the level of care seniors now get. But Obama is the problem?
It's because these arguments make absolutely no sense at all that one is forced to wonder where the animus really comes from. Because it cannot possibly be from these facts alone.
The Dish 