To the Editor:
Obama ran his campaign on a promise of change. From his actions after becoming president it appears the change was a change of mind. In 2007 Candidate Obama opposed mandating the uninsured to buy health insurance telling Hillary Clinton “if a mandate was the solution we can try to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.” He recently signed a bill that will force American citizens to buy health insurance. Obama, during his campaign vilified Bush because of Guantanamo military prison and promised to close it if he became president. He signed a bill on January 7 2011 to keep Guantanamo open indefinitely. In a 2007 Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire Obama stated “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election. McCain, Republican nominee kept that promise. However Obama changed his mind again. In 2008 He announced “We’ve made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election” While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Manchester, N.H., on June 22, 2007, Obama promised that if he became president he would allow the public five days to look at bills before they were signed. That promise has yet to be kept. Obama did make changes, however - bigger government, more wasteful spending and more debt. Those who did not search Obama’s past record before voting in 2008 were setting themselves up for disappointment. Those who did, voted for his opponent.
Bonnie Wheeler
Andrews S.C.
formerly of Richmond County
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
Our politicians shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. They con you into the belief that there exists some mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, are responsible and should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
If the preambles of each state does not prove to Americans that this nation was founded on godly beliefs and principles They are in denial. All state preambles resemble North and South Carolina:
"We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him ..."
"We, the people of he State of South Carolina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution."
You keep writing the same old things again and again, enough already!