Your Opinion: Promise of hope remains empty

Dear Editor:

Have you ever wondered why an individual, Bob Boldt, would write a letter to the editor reciting false information about a presidential candidate while ignoring factual information about his own beloved former President Bill Clinton? Both had moral failings, one has asked forgiveness from God and from his fellow citizens while the other has never said he was sorry that he lied to us, shaking his finger at the camera.

The current holder of the office of president of these United States has been a complete failure in his almost-completed first term.

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Obama's history since the product of the Chicago political machin e flashed onto the American political scene just a few years ago will agree that the task of explaining his failures must begin with the maxim that warns "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

It is true that hope is an essential element of the healthy human psyche. But false hope? Let's just say it's so dangerous we need to give thanks it "cannot fool all of the people all the time."

The hope hawked by a very clever practitioner of that perverse vocation; for borrowing from an observation made by former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer, we can say Obama successfully presented himself as nothing more than a Rorschach figure into whom angry, frustrated and frightened citizens projected their hopes for better days in a better America.

However, with the end of 2011 approaching and Americans still "fasting" as they wait for the nation of their hopes, a majority of the public, now aware of Barack Obama's fundamental incompetence, have come to embrace the truth of the above maxim as well as that of another which counsels, "Well done is better than well said."

If a proud, brave Barack Obama were to come clean with the American people about his lifelong adherence to the tenets of American liberalism and European social democracy, he would have doomed himself politically.

Of course, once he assumed office, the president could no longer scam the public solely with Hamlet's mere "words, words, words" but actually had to take actions.

As the public has now perceived, his actions reveal the truth about his fundamental love of increasing the size and power of the federal government, the level of government most remote from the Constitution's "We the People."

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