Well Billy, a little adversity is good for the health I'd agree.
This little dialogue with Junior proves a marketing theory - if you spend enough money and enough time and repeat it often enough, you can make folks believe a lie. Case in point, Mercedes has spent a lot on their brand to ensure we all believe that they have the highest resale value of any car maker. The fact was for a long while Cadillac actually had the highest resale value, as documented in countless reports, statistics, from multiple sources around the globe. So Cadillac spent $100 million to try to get the truth out, but it was too late ... Mercedes had already convinced us all of the lie.
Me, I take note that liberals are distancing themselves from O's policies, and in fact are running on platforms that emphasize when they disagreed with his economic policies, his healthcare policies, and even his deference to Islam. His advisors are quitting, his rapport with military leadership is failing, he's lost the support of the gay voting block. This isn't spin - this is printed in liberal news sources. And then I read articles from Europe laughing at us failing to learn from their mistakes, specifically social medicine and economics, which they are watching implode in their face and the future leadership is hoping to swing back to free markets. And then I read Asian articles where China won't buy anymore of our T-Bills, and only is holding onto the ones they have as political leverage to negotiate the purchase of vast tracts of lands and property in the US, reduced tariffs, and less restrictions in pacific military regions. Taiwan and South Korea are nervous - North Korea is emboldened. Ahmenijad regards Obama as the persian equivalent of a lawn jockey. All this I got from somewhere other than Fox or CNN, from socialist and even communist news agencies, as well as liberal media.
So yeah, forgive me if I remain skeptical of Obama's self-proclaimed success.