In response to
Obama Pathos Part 1: Barack Who?

David Newhall in California
Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 5:28 PM

In 2008 we heard how the election of Obama would be an absolute disaster. So now I ask: is the situation of the country now, in 2012, the disaster you meant? Things aren't perfect, of course. But unemployment has dropped, the stock market is way up, the economy is growing. The auto industry has been saved, Bin Laden has been killed. Maybe this is the disaster you guys were talking about, fine, but then it just doesn't seem that bad to me. So then what am I to think when you say that re-electing him will be a disaster? Do you mean like the disaster we have now? So, in other words, if we re-elect Obama, things will continue to get better: we'll have declining unemployment, we'll kill some more terrorists, we'll save another industry, etc? Is your story that these things will happen, but maybe things won't get better fast enough? I just need to know what you mean by "disaster". Because if that's what you mean, that just doesn't sound that scary. On the other hand, maybe this isn't the disaster you meant in 2008. In which case you were wrong. So why should I believe you now when you say we will have a disaster if we re-elect him? So either you guys were wrong in '08 and the sky wasn't really falling, or you have a very light definition of "disaster". Either way, it kind of seems like a problem to me.