Nee, het is niet weer een peiling (zoals de titel zou kunnen vermoeden) waarin aan Amerikanen werd gevraagd wie ze de slechtste president vinden die de VS ooit heeft gehad. Nee, de Republikeinse kandidaat voor een zetel in het Huis, Ben Quayle, liet in een televisiespotje weten dat hij Barack Obama “the worst president in history” vindt. Maar Quayle, de zoon van voormalig vice-president Dan Quayle, gaf niet aan waar hij deze beschuldiging op baseerde. Maar afgelopen week kwam Quayle met 9 redenen waarom Obama de slechtste president ooit is.

Volgens Quayle heeft Obama “destroyed more wealth than any human being in history” en heeft hij “divided America along racial lines in destructive ways.” De lijst (zie hieronder) geeft overigens geen enkel bewijs voor de beweringen van Quayle. Quayle is één van de 10 Republikeinen om de GOP nominatie te winnen voor de zetel in het Huis.

Redenen waarom president Obama de slechtste president die de VS ooit heeft gehad (= worst in history):

1. He has loaded up every child in this nation with more debt than any President in history.
2. With his policies and the threat of more such policy, he has destroyed more wealth than any human being in history, which is always what happens when you set out to redistribute wealth: you end up destroying it.
3. He has brought us to the brink of the most massive tax increases in history and if we don’t elect enough Republicans in November to stop him that is exactly what we will get.
4. He has forced through legislation without a single republican vote that may well destroy the finest health care system in history when all we needed were some measures to control costs.
5. He has divided America along racial lines in destructive ways and he is doing so again by suing Arizona over its attempt to control the drug trade and human smuggling trade threatening its security.
6. He has failed to form a policy to adequately deal with the vicious Mexican drug cartels that are essentially running parts of that nation and becoming an increasing threat to ours.
7. He has travelled the world making apologies for America instead of defending its timeless and treasured ideals of freedom and peace for all nations of good will.
8. He has said there is nothing exceptional about America, something no other president has ever said and something which alone suggests he is a historically poor president.
9. He has hired people of strange and radical views to hold important federal posts in which they pursue more bad policy that no administration in history has ever pursued.