So someone from Americans for the Prosperous calls me

[Jackpine Radical]

and says he has only one question to ask me: Do I believe Obama's policies have helped or hurt the economy.

I said "Obama's actions have tremendously helped the economy. He kept us out of what surely would otherwise have been a major depression."

He said "Thank you. I hope you have a good evening."

At that point my inner demon leapt to my lips and said, "And I hope you have a bad one."

As I asked in another recent OP, Am I a bad person?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Nah, just playful.

[northoftheborder]

2. No, you are not a bad person. Just a truthteller letting off steam!!!

[Lightbulb_on]

3. Bad? No... Petty? Yes...

[Ellipsis]

4. Richard perhaps.

[Lightbulb_on]

8. Class?

I always find that a smile and a friendly comment infuriates my enemies far more than a "fuck you"

Beyond that, OP doesn't know the situation about the caller. Possibly some poor schmuck who makes some money by reading a rote statement 500 times a day and then makes a little tick mark on an excel sheet.

You just made their day a little crappier and confirmed an elitist nasty stereotype.

Bravo ...

I vote in a swing state and have been inundated with calls from that group and others. How hard is it to wish them well and maintain some class about yourself instead of spitting in their eye?

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Only because it was some poor, minimum-wage schlub

who didn't know any better, and who wouldn't have been doing this if he had a decent job.

[Ken Burch]

11. ok...you're right, now that I think of it.

my bad.

[demwing]

14. Coerce? Lighten up Francis...

They called, asked a question, got an answer, stayed polite and thanked the OP. Is common courtesy outweighed by rank partisanship?

To the OP: You probably told some poor fuck who cant get a job anywhere else, and makes minimum wage to boot, to go have a lousy night. I understand why you did it, and agree it doesn't make you a bad person, but it was misdirected, and not very nice. I bet he felt like shit.

[Ken Burch]

17. You've got me mixed up with the OP.

I wasn't the one who talked to the phone guy.

[demwing]

19. No, I don't

"Coerce? Lighten up Francis...They called, asked a question, got an answer, stayed polite and thanked the OP. Is common courtesy outweighed by rank partisanship?" was directed at you.

The following bit - the part that comes after..."To the OP"...?

That was directed to the OP. No confusion.

[Ken Burch]

20. Did you read the post where I said I'd been WRONG about the OP? Geez!

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I did not deserve that from you.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Haven't you ever played with pollsters?

Maybe you need to flip that switch.

[Zalatix]

12. At some point you don't just bottle up frustration when someone is spouting bullshit at you.

Bottling up anger is how Tea Partiers and mass shootings happen. Not saying the OP would ever blow up like that, but sometimes you just have to vent.

Any Democrats that isn't looking for a wall to pound into dust with a sledgehammer right now, simply isn't aware of what is going on.

[Lightbulb_on]

13. Maybe...

... But the way I see it, the only thing that was accomplished was a minimum wage workers day was a little bit worse for someone else's brief moment of satisfaction.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Not even satisfaction.

I did't feel good for having done it. I'm deeply angry at the ones in charge, not him and I no doubt reinforced his prejudices against Dems.

[demwing]

15. well, that's one opinion. /nt

[GoneOffShore]

6. That's just wrong.

I'd have kept him on the phone for as long as I could. So he couldn't spread his bullshit to others.

But we do what we feel is right at the time. And I'm not saying that I could have resisted the urge to do what you did.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. I've thought of that ploy, but

I consider my time more valuable than theirs, and I could be putting in billable hours and donating it to Democrats instead.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. That's a Koch Brothers front. You were extremely kind to them compared to the furnace

which would have roared past my lips given the same situation :lol: