Bruce Seaman of Lawrence
To the editor:
Our president has low approval ratings and deservedly so. He was not the leader of his party when there was a Republican Congress. He did not use his veto to prevent wasteful spending or lift the executive ban on drilling and make energy a priority. Our present Democrat-controlled Congress is even worse. Their obstruction tactics and do-nothing energy policies are frustrating to most Americans. Who would be the best leader of this country for the next four years? Like many voters, I don’t like either of them very much but I have made my choice. I’ll probably vote against Sen. Obama.
There are several reasons. None of them include even a hint of racism but I admit that I resent indirectly being accused of it by him. Without any provocation, he has accused the McCain campaign, and thereby any white voter who doesn’t vote for him, of racism. He must be an exceedingly ambitious little man who cannot run on his record and experience. So, he resorts to these tactics.
I oppose him because of his lack of experience and what I know of his record. He served fewer than 150 days in the Senate. The only major bill sponsored by him during that time is the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), with an estimated cost of $845 billion, administered by the United Nations, and in addition to what the U.S. already pays. He’s selling our sovereigntyto a corrupt international organization. All of his “solutions” to problems are higher taxes and more money.
The presidency would be to him an extension of his chosen vocation. He began as a “community organizer” whose job was to help people find the money and services they needed within the community they resided. Then, he used his state position to do the same thing. It appears that he now wants to be the one holding the money bag so that he can spread it around.
Although no socialist government-financed health care system has worked in any other country as efficiently and economically as our own, he wants to risk ruining our health care system to engage in an American great socialist health care experiment.
His one major bill also indicates that he is not satisfied with being the sugar daddyof the U.S. He wants to be the sugar daddy of the world.
That confiscation of wealth for government redistribution is a distinctly Marxist idea doesn’t seem to bother his supporters or most of the major media; but it does bother me.
If Sen. McCain wins the presidency, I don’t trust him either. His history of “reaching across the aisle” to his big government Democrat friends may be too big of a temptation. We’d see the amnesty for illegal immigration and other unwise policies return and passed with his support. That’s why I’d like to see a truly conservative Congress in place. It would tend to keep in check whoever wins the presidency.
Bruce Seaman
Lawrence
