Louis Roney: Just thoughts

Most every voice speaking on radio or TV about President Obama these days says that his administration is the nadir of all within memory. He is an easy man to like, but a hard man to admire for the job he has done to date. He has solved almost nothing on the home front.

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 expressed 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? There were very obvious signs even though Americans at that time overtly wanted a change from George Bush. Some pertinent facts we knew about Obama beforehand: 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 did 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, Yemen, anywhere? On the home front, is Obama reducing benefits to our veterans? Will there be pay raises for our troops? Our military is very upset by agreements that Obama is making limiting our military force to levels below those of WWII. Where do Obama’s interests really 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. 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 did Attorney General Eric Holder do about illegal aliens and goods crossing our borders? Anything? Are we now better off with the new A.G.?

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 Benghazi? 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? And we’re supposed to vote her in as president? Are you kidding?

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? Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. “Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free and heaven and Earth will aid the resolution.” – Joseph Warren, 1775