Obama should resign to save country, dignity
As a supporter of you and your campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination, nevertheless, I am extremely disappointed with your administration. As an attorney myself, I am concerned about facts v. opinion. From a historical point of view cutting taxes creates economic development and increasing taxes creates the opposite. You are an attorney who is refusing to recognize facts. You do so purely for political purposes to generate votes to keep you in office.
As to energy independence, you are kowtowing to the environmental radicals who want to go to green energy. With all due respect, electric cars, which you are now supporting, will not have enough energy to support commerce or emergency services for two reasons. Firstly, the energy grid in this country could not support plugging in all these vehicles, and secondly, should a hurricane or major natural disaster knock out the electric energy producing companies, it would place all American citizens in that area at risk, since they cannot have fire or police protection or get to work to support their families. Katrina taught us that Mother Nature rules.
In respect to cutting spending for the space program, you ignore the fact that space exploration has produced technology giving us cell phones, computers, etc. This program has also provided technology for defending our nation in case of attack. It destroys the traditional philosophy of this nation to reach for the stars, which has made us distinct from all other nations in the history of the world.
As for the defense budget, once again, you have cut the defense budget, which puts our country at risk. Bullies only understand one thing, which is strength. It is not Kumbaya, apparently your philosophy. I learned that lesson as a child when my father taught me how to box in an attempt to defend myself against bullies. It worked well when I was a youngster and works internationally. Obviously, you never learned that lesson from your own father.
I cannot disagree with those who criticize you as being a socialist at best and Marxist at worst. Your strategy to push us down the road of Marxism is obvious. Since you will probably not be re-elected in the next presidential campaign, everything is a rush. The Democratic Party is essentially a one party system in this country.
Your philosophy will destroy the United States and make us no better than the failed socialist and communist nations around the world. You apparently defend all criticisms as racism, which is a typical political knee-jerk reaction. These criticisms are not based on race, but on philosophy. After all, it was white America that elected you to office and who adopted all the affirmative action and discrimination laws in place today. The black community could not have done this based upon its numbers.
Your handling of the gulf oil leak is despicable. You should have allowed every possible company, country, etc. to help contain this leak as soon as possible. From a hypocritical point of view, you blamed George Bush for not responding soon enough to Katrina, yet for political reasons, you failed to respond fully and quickly to the oil leak. Obviously, your support of environmental radicals for their vote made your decision.
In conclusion and in my opinion, you have failed this nation. Please resign and avoid the embarrassment of not being re-elected or impeached.
Steven R. Heuberger
Libertyville