What’s Been Accomplished

To the Editor:

Regarding the anti-Obama rant of last week, August 7, 2009 [Letter Hive, “Betraying The American People”]. Our previous administration’s main accomplishments were: Halfheartedly pursuing the Afghan-based terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, deceiving us into an unjustified, devastating war in Iraq, encouraging torture which makes us appear as bad as “them,” and further eroding our civil rights.

Heaven forbid a new president proposes policies that will actually help our 45 million fellow Americans without health insurance. There are several bills in the works, and I’m sure nothing will be perfect, but having anti-Obama activists hire unregulated lobbyists to sabotage town hall meetings and invent horrors that are “in the bill” does nothing for the democratic process that they claim to support (when convenient).

As for the bailouts, the Obama administration just continued the processes that were well underway during the Bush administration, so I’ll call that one a draw. And the Fox channel? I have, and do, watch it from time to time. It’s practically the right-wing division of the Republican Party, hardly objective.

Gabriel Dunn

40 Hi Barlow Road, Newtown                                    August 11, 2009