argues, it really isn’t even worth asking:
If you hear a reporter ask people in President Obama's administration, ideally in a belligerent tone, "are the American people better off than they were four years ago?, "the reporter is trying to tell you that they are not qualified to do their job.
The reason we know that the questioners are incompetent reporters is that this is a pointless question. Suppose your house is on fire and the firefighters race to the scene. They set up their hoses and start spraying water on the blaze as quickly as possible. After the fire is put out, the courageous news reporter on the scene asks the chief firefighter, "is the house in better shape than when you got here?"
The GOP had eight years in the White House before Obama’s four. When they left the Oval Office, the nation was far worse off than it is now. The Democrats need to just say that and let their opponents loudly object as they would anyway in an election season.
Further, Dems would do well not to let the nation forget the depth of the damage done to the nation during the Bush years.
So maybe Barack Obama’s not towing the car out of the ditch far enough or fast enough. And maybe it’s tempting to be serenaded by the chorus of haters standing on the roadside hooting and hollering angrily as the President fumbles with the hitch.
But that’s no reason to hand the keys back over to same sort of right-wing ideologues who drove us off the road in the first place.
