In a gratuitous swipe
at the outgoing POTUS, a recent letter to the local "news" paper attempts to minimize and/or refute Obama accomplishments. The list is long and wrong.
It cites what
he calls Our military being "In worse shape than before Pearl
Harbor." The US military, as real
military leaders will attest, is strong today. Technology has made less into
more as we reshape the force to meet challenges that are uniquely different from those of WWII. A battleship navy
like the USN of WWII would be almost immediately
littering the seabed due to modern submarine technology. Less is more if less
can kick ass.
"Obamacare"
is a complete disaster? That is only true to the extent that all US private
healthcare (which is what the ACA is) is a disaster. Don't like price
increases? Blame Big Pharma, not the President. All private health care
plans have seen increased premiums, and
private insurers have been more than willing to lay said increases at the feet
of the ACA. Of course the other side of the story is that people with conditions
which, in the absence of healthcare coverage would go untreated are now able to
get medical care. So it really comes down to what we think a society should do
for all its citizens, not just the ones who own hotels. Moreover, this
statement is risible coming from a person (the author of the letter) on Medicare , ergo having zero interface with the ACA.
Benghazi
"lying" largest scandal in history? How about Reagan ignoring the House
report of 1983 on Embassy security, warning of serious security issues,
followed after several months of neglect
by another attack which featured the filmed torture death of the station chief?
Seven months later it happened again, Reagan explaining away failure to enhance
embassy security by analogizing it to "Delays in redoing a kitchen!" The
cost of the delays runs to over 200 deaths! Biggest scandal? How about the My Lai massacre? How about
Watergate? How about Iran Contra, Teapot
Dome, or The Keating Five? Or more to the point, how about Republican partisan
posturing and the expenditure of more time and effort than Watergate, the JFK
shooting and Pearl Harbor hearings combined in an attempt to smear a
prospective Democratic candidate?
Obama
"caused more debt than..." Obama
inherited a Bush budget (2009) with a record deficit. We were in the grip of the
worst economic collapse since 1929 (not Bush's fault). Of course it's easy to
snipe from the sidelines when one has no burden of proof to show that they
could do it better. Remember TARP was a Bush project. This really comes from the same racist place
as "Obama wants to give 'stuff' to people who don't deserve it"
Having traveled
extensively overseas, I can say with certainty that the only thing in recent
years which has "made the US a laughingstock " other than the entire
Kardashian family, is the recent election. I have yet to meet any person of another
nationality who dislikes Obama and has
any positive regard for Donald Trump. Most
casual conversations over the Month of
May, 2016 in France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco eventually turned to
questions from the local involving Trump and was he really as crazy as he seems.
Earlier acquaintances from the UK, where Trump is almost universally loathed, echoed
this thread.
The writer ended by opining that with the help of God and
Donald Trump, things would hopefully soon be right as rain. Invoking
God and Trump in the same sentence should be offensive to any person of faith.
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