(Reprinted with permission from Eddie’s Corner, the blog of Eddie Rose, at www.eddierose.org )
I voted for you in 2008. I did so because you were intelligent, articulate, and above all, not born with the proverbial “silver spoon” in your mouth. It was indeed inspiring that a person with such humble beginnings could rise to become President of the United States!
I also voted for you because you promised a new direction from the insanity and evil of George Bush and Dick Cheney. You promised to get us out of Iraq, to not kowtow to the mega-corporations, and to clean up the environment.
What has taken place since you took office has, to say the least, been a major disappointment. Our troops have not been brought home from Iraq. Instead they are bogged down in another no-win fiasco in Afghanistan.
The greatest oil spill in our lifetime, the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, has occurred on your watch. True, this was not entirely your fault. But you could have taken preventive action to IMMEDIATELY HALT ALL OIL DRILLING off our coastal shores.
You talk tough about the abuses by Wall Street tycoons, AIG, and CEOs with their seven-figure salaries and obscene bonuses, but you still continue to “bail out” these banksters and “fat cats” when they fail under the weight of their own greed.
And now, instead of taking action to secure our Southern borders, yopu are proposing amnesty to allow illegal aliens to remain in this country. Instead of bring our troops home IMMEDIATELY and placing them on our Southern border where they belong to protect our country from invasion, plunder, and terrorism, you are proposing punitive action against the sovereign state of Arizona for attempting to protect its citizens!
Shame on you, President Obama. By pandering to special interests, you have lost the support of middle-class America. You entered office with a mandate to reclaim America, to take back our flag from those who took it hostage.
Both of us are too young to remember, but we once had a truly great President who fought corporate greed, who stood up for the “little guy”, who believed in protecting our borders, and who wanted to preserve our precious land for future generations. His name was Teddy Roosevelt!
The Honorable Eddie Rose
Former Laguna Niguel (CA) City Councilman
“A Voice—Not an Echo”
I thought Mr. Obama did put a halt on all offshore deep water oil drilling, then the courts overturned his decision.
What did you expect? He is a Democrat.
I agree with Trex though.
~BBF
“And now, instead of taking action to secure our Southern borders, yopu are proposing amnesty to allow illegal aliens to remain in this country. Instead of bring our troops home IMMEDIATELY and placing them on our Southern border where they belong to protect our country from invasion, plunder, and terrorism, you are proposing punitive action against the sovereign state of Arizona for attempting to protect its citizens!”
I believe the President advocates a comprehensive immigration reform bill to address these issues in the responsible manner required.
Speaking of Teddy Roosevelt… i almost did a story about this but it didn’t quite seem newsworthy enough.
But once a year, a big group of historians get together to rank the Presidents from best to worst. They just did it again, and the two Roosevelts came up on top.
I think the top five were – FDR, Teddy, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson.
Barack was #15 – not too bad!
And GWBush was down in the bottom 5 with Andrew Johnson and Buchanan. Sounds about right.
dont worry vern at the pace this clown is going he will at the bottom by 2012 …
As far as the border goes, I wonder just how many personel it would take.
Just for a minute let’s assume that you would need 3 shifts per day and 1 person per foot ball field. This works out to 17.6 persons per mile times 3 or 52.8 persons per mile, plus some extras to cover vacation weekends etc,. So lets for the sake of argument say about 80 persons per mile would totally secure the borders
We have 1969 miles with our border with Mexico so 80 persons per mile equals 157,520 personal. Plus support staff so by then we are close to 200,000. Just for the southern border.
Our northern border is 5525 miles long to also secure this border would take an additional 442,000 personel plus support staff so an additional 500,000 personal.
Add another 250,000 to completely secure our Ports and air ports.
To secure the borders by personal alone will take a million people, that is assuming 1 person on duty per football field is enough.
The deployment would require a draft and a drastic increase in federal spending.
Seems to me that the only realistic way to move toward a solution is a comprehensive one like both Presidents Obama and Bush proposed.
Jim.
Look at it from the view of president Obama.
Using your math he could add another million jobs and most of Americans would applaud him!
We are withdrawing from Iraq as per the agreement Bush made before leaving office.
Obama told us he was going to go after those who attacked us in Afghanistan and he is doing so. He has also set a target date to begin to withdraw our troops from there.
It is not possible without an massive increase in investment in other energy sources possible to not have some oil drilling going on for at least then next 10-20 years. Otherwise we become more and more dependant or other counties to provide for our energy needs. This comes at a great risk to national security because they could cut us off or support those who would seek to do us harm with our money.
I am surprised that considering the ecomonic conditions and the other problems that Obama inherited that he has been able to retain the approval rating he still has. Time will tell how the policy changes he has put into effect will work out, but I am do not think we should write him off yet.
Hi, Vern—
I agree with four (4) of your top five (5) best Presidents. But NOT FDR. He knew in advance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, but NOTHING to prevent it or forwarn the military, because we wanted an EXCUSE to get the United States into the war. Just as Dick Cheney knew in advance of the 911 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York, but told no one (probably not even the incompetent George Bush), because he wanted an excuse to use the so-called “war on terror” as a Republican campaign ploy.
FDR and Cheney should probably go down as two of the most evil individuals in history! And Andrew Jackson should also be included on the “most evil individuals” list. He did absolutely NOTHING to prevent the massacre at the Alamo (Remember the Alamo?) because he regarded Davy Crockett as a future political threat. And let’s not forget the two most corrupt Presidents in our lifetime, Richard Nixon (a Republican) and Lyndon Johnson (a Democrat),
Eddie Rose
Eddie,
Agreed. FDR was no bueno.
I LOST ALL RESPECT FOR YOU . MR ROSE WHEN YOU JOIN FAR LEFT VERN AND THE COOKS . you thought chenney knew about 9/11 before it happened and did nothing . . media matters is looking for you .