Nothing positive about the changes

Nothing positive about the changes

Listening to the president’s recent speech brought back memories of early 2006 when he — with a resume as a community organizer, law professor, member of the Illinois Senate for six years and newly elected to the U.S. Senate for only two years — announced that he was running for president. He was very eloquent in expressing how he would bring hope and change to our country and how business is done in Washington.

Here we are 2½ years later. The only changes have been negative (the economy has tanked despite massive government spending, unemployment is higher, and respect for our country is at an all-time low), and any hope seems to be hopeless.

The president has spent over two years spending like a drunken sailor racking up over $3 trillion in new debt and seems to now think that the American people will have a memory lapse and forget all his spending and find him the great savior to reduce our national debt. He has had almost three years in office to show leadership with all those high-priced advisers and czars while he continues to fail miserably. Too bad we voters cannot see the budget the president submitted to the Senate that was voted down 97-0.

The president’s speech sounded more like a spoiled schoolboy who didn’t get his way and was pointing fingers and blaming everyone else for his failures in leadership. That may have worked in 2008, but as they say “Fool me once ...”

Daryl G. Pratt

Arlington Heights