Death to Obamacare! they shout.
Tell that to the parents who can keep their kids on their health-insurance policies until they're 27 - a relief for me and my twentysomething daughter, who's working but doesn't have insurance. Or the millions of people who've stood in line for hours to get medical care at traveling clinics throughout the country, most of whom work but can't afford insurance.
He's antibusiness! the white collars whine.
Tell that to GM and Chrysler and their workers, rescued by government intervention.
He's anti-middle class. Can't identify with regular folk.
Tell that to the credit-card companies and overdraft sharks whose game of gouging people like you and me has been quashed. Or tell it to the already cash-strapped parents and their college-student children who see a president who pushed through school-loan reform.
And for his effort?
He's "the worst president in history," says Republican congressional candidate Ben Quayle, spawn of former stellar VP Dan Quayle. You know, most remembered for adding the letter e to the end of potato.
The sad fact is that for all the good Obama's done, he's been lambasted for everything and not given credit for anything.
An endless cycle of negativity on the hamster wheel.
Can we just talk hope again?
Supporters still
If you listen to the chatter, you'd think everybody's bailed on our president.
But walk into the West Ave Grille in cozy downtown Jenkintown, Montgomery County, and you get another picture.
Literally.
Hanging on a wall in the restaurant's waiting area is a photo montage of Obama's visit two years ago, when he was a candidate.
And, no, customers haven't tossed their chicken pot pies at it.
