Louis Roney: Let me ask...?

Most of the time, most people seem to know the answers to most of the questions they ask most other people.

Writing “Play On!” through several decades, I have dared to express my opinion on many questions, knowing that all opinions are by definition personal and arguable. Arguments have been well-defined as, “reinforcements of long-held prejudices.” Politicians know well the value of setting up their ideas by asking themselves “loaded questions” and then answering them publicly!

These days there are many questions about the president and his presidency floating around in the political air we breathe. I don’t claim to have the answers to many of life’s questions, but I have been asked a plethora: Do I like the president? That’s quite a question. I have nothing against the man personally, however, as to whether I like the way he is leading our country? I do not! In general terms, I would say Obama solves few, if any, problems and leaves us weaker and at the mercy of difficult countries with which we must deal. Should we have known better before we elected this man?

Barack Obama has no experience with any of our armed services and yet as president he is commander in chief of all of them. He promised to get the troops out of Afghanistan and seems to be doing so at the peril of the local Afghan people. Did we promise to rescue Iraq, or to help them rescue themselves? Are American interests being better served now in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya — anywhere?

On the home front, is Obama reducing benefits to our veterans? Will there be pay raises for our troops? Our military is very perturbed by agreements that Obama is making limiting our service commands to levels below those of WWII. At the same time he just released five of the world’s worst terrorists-criminals from Guantanamo to return to their murderous trade. Why, pray tell? Did Obama break our laws re: not dealing with terrorists? Where do Obama’s interests lie? Why do our military leaders remain silent?

Meanwhile our veterans are languishing for months at a time waiting for well-deserved urgent medical attention promised them. Obama knew of this fact when he was a candidate for president and vowed that as president this would be a first priority of his. What happened? Is Obama calling for yet another projected “study”? Of what? He knew of the problems over six years ago!

One of the first scandals of the Obama regime was “Fast and Furious” — our running of guns to Mexico. What did we solve in Mexico? Where are those guns now? Are Mexican cartels still powerful and operating? Are drugs trafficking across the border as usual? What is Attorney General Eric Holder doing about illegal aliens and goods crossing our borders — anything?

Speaking of crossing the Mexican border: I remember that a promised wall was to be finished years ago. Where is it? Has it been built? American ranchers have been killed on their own U.S. property. Has anyone been caught and punished for these killings?

And are we Americans supposed to be so dumb as to swallow the idiotic story that a video was the cause of our ambassador and three other Americans being killed, and our embassy burned, in Bengazi?! Who thought up that stupid idea? Where was the president? Where was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Aren’t U.S. embassies’ actions under the secretary of state’s purview?

Lastly: We Americans are told not to judge all Muslims by the behavior of a few lunatics among them, and yet we are told to judge all gun owners by the doings of a few wackos! Nonsensical isn’t it?