President Obama lowers himself before world
What amount of hypocrisy is needed to shock the citizens of our country to understand the extent of inexperience and immorality now occupying the highest level of the executive branch of our government?
Recently, while listening to our president address a joint session of the Congress, one congressman summoned the courage to voice his outrage famously with the honest words, “You lie!”
Earlier this year, our president traveled to Saudi Arabia and, when led into the presence of the Saudi king, he bent in an act of submission to that monarch. Video and still photography captured the act.
Later explanations and equivocations from the White House failed to remove the sting millions of citizens experienced upon seeing our commander-in-chief paying obeisance.
On Sept. 17, the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, our president announced his decision to unilaterally renege on deployment of a particular defensive missile system to Poland and the Czech Republic and immediately received accolades for his decision from Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation.
The federation is the successor to the Soviet Union that collapsed in 1991 and, like its predecessor, the federation remains a threat to its neighbors, including all of Western Europe and especially to its closest neighbor, Poland.
For the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic to have accepted the Bush administration’s missile defense proposal, each leader had to obtain consent to the arrangement from his own legislative branch. Those leaders demonstrated great courage in the face of an openly hostile Russian Federation. Our president’s unilateral decision embarrassed the Polish and Czech leadership and demonstrated his submission to the Russian Federation.
Recently our president swept through the Sunday talk shows continuing to pitch his opinion of the national health-care legislation, which denies the true implications of the actual version passed by the House of Representatives and not yet acted upon by the Senate.
He insists that, once enacted, the national health-care plan will not ration services to seniors, but the actual legislation says otherwise. Congress will vote on the real version, and the citizens of our country will live that reality. Our president knows he is lying to us.
Whether submitting to an Arabian king and a Russian despot or lying to the American people, our president lowers himself before the world.
Robert A. Spahr, Peru
Ex-presidents would not like change
Let’s look at the changes so far.
(1) President Obama has and is weakening the CIA.
(2) He is scrapping our missile defense system in Poland.
(3) He is pushing for socialized medicine.
(4) He has a policy to lose in Afghanistan and is following a policy of giving up.
Former presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Harry S. Truman would turn over in their graves if they knew about his dastardly agenda. We can only hope that the citizens of the U.S.A. remember this in the 2010 general election.
William J. Kuntz, Kokomo
Age requirement should be raised
There is nothing wrong with the color of President Obama’s skin. He is handsome, educated, charismatic and a gifted speaker.
But he lacks maturity and wisdom, the qualities most needed for the commander-in-chief of the United States. And these qualities are acquired as we age.
The age requirement to be president needs to be raised to 50. This generation is taking longer to mature.
Evelyn B. Harrington, Kokomo
Glenn Beck is trying to divide America
Please print an even discourse about Glenn Beck. He is doing this country a great disservice by his dishonest rhetoric that plays to people’s fears and increases hatred in our country. He is attempting to divide this country.
I believe this hatred is based on two things: First, he hates the idea that a biracial man is the president of the country, and second, there are people who feel like him that fuel his television ratings.
Most of what he says is either a distortion of the truth or outright lies. I feel that it is the responsibility of the media to present the best information to the country and let the country decide what is true and not always go for the money.
Gene House, Greentown
