Regarding the Saturday letter about President Obama, “Supporters didn’t listen to him”:
Most of the letters I see from folks leaning right do not get the left’s dissatisfaction with the Obama administration. We are not upset about how far he has gone, we are upset because he has not gone far enough.
He never even offered up what the left really wanted with health care — a single-payer system. He gave us full employment for insurance companies instead — far from the socialized medicine the right claims we got.
I disagreed with the bank bailouts, but of course that was Bush who did that, not Obama, like the right now claims.
I agreed with him when he bailed out the auto industry — it saved millions of American jobs and kept at least some manufacturing in this country. It is hard to say that was a failure.
Congressional right wingers all voted against the stimulus, but that has saved millions of jobs. Now that the money is there we are seeing Republican congressmen requesting that money for their districts because, they write, it will create jobs. It would seem to me if they had courage of their conviction they would not use that money, as it is putting the country in debt and not creating jobs as they falsely claimed.
There is little daylight between Obama’s foreign policy and Bush’s — that is very disappointing.
As a constitutional lawyer I expected to see Obama go after the blatantly unconstitutional behavior practiced by the Bush administration. Nothing is all we got from Mr. Obama on that front.
We are disappointed with the Democrats in Congress and the White House but it is not because they are too liberal, it is because they have not been liberal enough.
Stephen L. McGourty
Arlington
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