Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
If the Tea Party had popped up during the Bush years, maybe I'd have been convinced of some merit. As it stands, Obama is one of the better presidents we've had in generations (that's not to say he's a good president, though--we haven't had an objectively good president in a very long time, if ever). 99% of the vitriol spewed against him is pure unadulterated grade-A conspiracy-theory bullshit. The sorts of people who buy into it aren't smart enough to do anything other than support every stupid Cliven Bundy-like figure that comes along. All this talk about "We need smaller government!" lol. Government is weak and puny, the real tyrants in our society are corporations that can push the government around any which way they please, and they are empowered by the tea party garbage.
Oy vey do I disagree as to the quality and direction of the Obama administration. The best of recent years was the thoroughly muzzled Clinton admin after the first midterm election and before the blue dress idiocy (as though THAT rose to the level of impeachable....stupid). Prior to that I thought Reagan did well for the first six years and Nixon policy wise might have done great things if he hadn't been a crook. Since WW2? Ike by a mile.