Let’s Have Some Hope For A Change

To the Editor:

It is curious that after eight years of the Bush policies leading to the worst economic downfall since the Great Depression that one can argue for continuation of policies which have been the ruination of our economy. To mask the impact of failed economic policies by alluding to media bias is to ignore the facts and the will of the people. Those who support more tax cuts and less government need only to examine the past eight years. The large Clinton surplus has been transformed into the enormous Bush deficit. While companies go down the tubes each day and Americans lose their jobs, Halliburton is prosperous and ExxonMobil turns record profits. It is curious the Big Oil President has assured profits for oil and for Dick Cheney’s company, specifically.

For Republicans in Congress to ignore the will of the people, a new President with a record popularity rating and the need for governmental stimulus when they supported policies of a former president who lost the popular vote at the beginning of his presidency and who had a record unpopularity rating at the end of his presidency, is curious. For some to inject race into the argument in any form is curious. To misrepresent Obama’s position of social programs is curious. To make light of the need for hope and change is curious. It is curious that conservative Republicans have torpedoed every attempt by Obama to encourage bipartisanship.

It is time to change from my weekend subscription to the liberal-media-elitist-left-wing New York Times to a seven-day subscription and check out MSNBC. Let the naysayers read only the New York Post or Washington Times and watch only FOX News and listen only to conservative talk radio. I see domination by right-wing conservatives in the media and need to balance the constant conservative onslaught. Liberals get hammered every day and in every way in the media. In fact, the extensive network of conservative media make a living by being accusatory towards so-called liberal-media-elitists. Remember, it was Rush Limbaugh who unbelievably and publicly exhibited media control of a congressman recently. That’s the personification of media control of government

I do not hear conservative zealots speak of the lies associated with the Bush administration, including: Smoking Gun, Mushroom Cloud, WMD, cost of invasion paid by Iraqi oil, aluminum tubes, Mission Accomplished, the economy is basically strong, etc.? In addition, I hear nothing from diehard conservatives about the Bush obsession with Iraq at the expense of fighting the proper war on terrorism in Afghanistan. This is coming home to roost. Afghanistan is a total disaster and has the potential to last decades and cost trillions of dollars and thousands of US military lives.

Finally, President Obama has inherited so many full plates, he needs unlimited dining halls to display them. To ridicule Obama as a Messiah of Hope and Change is sophomoric. While certainly no one person is a Messiah, we could use some hope emanating from the President for a change.

Regards,

Richard English

3 Curry Drive, Newtown                                             February 9, 2009