At least Obama learns from mistakes

At least Obama learns from mistakes

EDITOR:

The usual local critics of President Obama have been working overtime lately on their diatribes to the editor about socialism, health care and blaming a guy that has been in office six months for every problem we are enduring as a nation, the vast majority of which he inherited when he became president. If I didn’t think these people were serious, it would be laughable but they are serious. Many of these people believe they are patriots, but true patriots don’t want their leaders or their nation to fail. Unfortunately six months after inauguration day this is where we are at as a nation. Frankly, I expected it.

I don’t have a problem with someone who disagrees with policy and can make a rational argument that they have better ideas, but this rarely happens with the majority of these folks. How can anyone take them seriously when they believe our health care system doesn’t need reformed or blame Obama for the eight years of broken government under Bush. Many of them are GOP voters, but their party is represented by Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin and doesn’t have many solutions other than opposing Obama’s ideas and saying government is bad. Of course when the government is being run by their party, government is great. Hypocritical fools.

Has there ever been a new president that has been left a bigger mess by his predecessor in our history? Certainly not in my lifetime. And the amazing part about it is that this president is trying to get a handle on it. He’s not just sitting there wringing his hands. Sure he has made some mistakes, but compared with Bush, I think he actually learns from them. By the way, if anyone recalls the first six months of the first term of President Bush, his main goal was tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation and trying to figure out how to invade Iraq. This while being warned and ignoring the fact Bin Laden was going to attack us using airplanes.

I may in the minority when it comes to viewpoints on this page, but I feel much better having this president running things than the last one.

TIM O’HARA

Austintown