Evidence against Obama piling up

Barack Obama, in just over one year in office, has managed to publicly criticize and/or embarrass the country he is sworn to lead at least three times. He went to Egypt and in a speech to an audience that hates the United States, stated that our treatment of the Muslim world has been wrong and vowed to change our approach. In return we were treated to the "shoe bomber," the near fiasco in Detroit at Christmas, and most recently he refused to allow the American flag to be flown in Haiti. His reasoning was that he did not want to send the wrong message. One could also add the continuing "slaps in the face" from Iran as they continue on the road to nuclear capability and we continue to negotiate. Given that neither Russia nor China supports our position, it appears Mr. Obama's reputation internationally is severely lacking.

We now move on to an even scarier side to our President. His desire as intimated during the campaign was to oversee a redistribution of wealth in the United States. The first real step was approved with the passing of the health care bill, which won't work, just ask Canada and Australia. We can all agree that our health care system needs major improvement. However, having it taken over by the government is not the answer.

His Congressional leaders, Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, and Durbin are not smart enough to understand what is going on with this administration. We can't do anything about Obama until 2012. Let's be sure these other puppets and their cohorts get tossed out on their egotistic behinds.

Thomas P. Young

Mundelein