To the Editor:
What’s going on in the Oval Office? What are they thinking? We have a president mailing his presidency in to finish out his term. His arrogance, his inexplicable behavior and …
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To the Editor:
What’s going on in the Oval Office? What are they thinking? We have a president mailing his presidency in to finish out his term. His arrogance, his inexplicable behavior and unwise decisions have chaos in the air!
There is growing anger among the people that his tenure as Commander in Chief is a mess. Washington right now is an embarrassment. Scandal after scandal; unwise decisions after decisions. The VA debacle, IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA, Fast & Furious and now the “bad deal” surrounding the P.O.W. swap, to name a few.
A recent Washington Post poll reported that 49 percent of Americans don’t really care about today’s current events surrounding the nation. President Obama is very aware of that figure and knows he can “razzle-dazzle” with rhetoric, not action, with the 50 percent that are not engaged, along with the mainstream press that is giving him a “free pass” on just about everything.
I ask the question – Is this presidency and administration falling apart? “We the People” better wake up, get engaged, voice your opinion and vote change. Otherwise, silence gets what you deserve.
Richard D. Walsh
East Greenwich
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JohnStark
Richard, This administration is only "falling apart" if you assume that there is a desire on the part of this president to influence different outcomes. I would offer that he is succeeding brilliantly. I have assumed since he took office in 2009 that his goals were as follows:
1. Expand the nature and role of the federal government as much as possible.
2. Make as many people dependent upon the federal government as possible.
3. Weaken the nation.
I would further offer that virtually every domestic (food stamps, disability claims, extension of unemployment, Labor Dept. nominees, Keystone pipeline, immigration) and foreign policy initiative (with the exception of drones) has satisfied at least one of those goals. When you are meeting your goals, how can you be anything but "successful"?
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