To all the people who recommended the insipid, Joe the Plumber-esque, Canadian open letter propaganda diary, you should be ashamed. I have never read anything more offensive posted to this site.
In this day and age, when so many are still struggling just to survive, while the .01% continue to grow incomprehensibly rich, you actually recommended a diary telling us how good we've got it?
And if that weren't bad enough, the evidence used to support this claim is a bunch of stats on how good the .01% of Wall Street is doing.
Don't you realize what a slap in the face it is to go around touting the economic success of Wall Street as one of Obama's big "accomplishments", when so many of your fellow Americans are still suffering?
Where the fuck am I here? Orange State?
Look at this woman. Her name is Lily. She's 78 years old and she has to work at McDonald's to survive. Why don't you tell her how good she's got it?
Perhaps she just doesn't understand the good news!!!
Corporations are making record profits!!!!
Rich people are getting richer!!!
GDP (corporate profit again) is better than OECD!!!
The stock market is booming!!!
Great. If you're a bond trader.
There was one stat cited that is actually relevant to most Americans' lives. The unemployment rate. Unfortunately, the number cited is a complete fraud.
The real unemployment rate is easily above 16%. All Obama's labor dept. did was stop counting all of them.
There the real unemployment situation, right there. Fucked.
But what about all those NEW JOBS!!!! we keep hearing about?
Well, if you read the fine print, what you find is that they're almost all low wage service sector jobs. Part time jobs. Crappy jobs you can't survive on.
The new word of the season is underemployed. That's because in the new corporate economy, that the Demopublicans have brought about with their undying loyalty to Wall Street, it's perfectly legal to, instead of hiring one full time worker with full time benefits, hire two part time workers with no benefits.
Apparently, all those part time workers who are failing to survive didn't get the message about how good they've got it.
Hey Lakoff, is there a better way to frame "You're fucked."
It's one thing to be clueless about what's really happening to our economy under the neoliberal regime. But to smear it in everyone's faces like a bunch of spoiled rich kids is quite another thing. "Look at my new Farrari - thanks Obama!!!"
You know, when Obama famously said that it was OK if Republicans secretly supported him, he didn't mean for them to flood Daily Kos.
But that's what that diary reads like. On what planet is it OK to rub in everyone's faces how good we have it because a bunch of rich assholes are getting richer? Planet Wingnut, of course.
And since when do Democrats care more about a politician than they do Lily? The guy's not even up for reelection, and these...these...people, race to defend him.
But make no mistake. What they are really defending is right wing ideology.
This is the guy who wanted to cut Lily's social security checks to make Pete Peterson's billionaire buddies happy.
This is the guy who cut a deal to cut funding for head start and other critical programs that Democrats are supposed to support.
And he cut these programs at the same time as he was bailing out the banksters.
I'm sorry. If you stand behind all that, as well as handing public education over to corporate profiteers, drilling in the antarctic, attacking whistleblowers and journalists, conducting illegal mass surveillance on innocent Americans, allowing criminals to walk free and even covering up their crimes, and radical free trade deals that hand over sovereignty to an unelected international body, then you're not a Democrat.
And maybe that's why you lose elections. I seem to remember real Democrats being popular.