Letter writer critical of Obama, Democratic Party

To the Editor:

The Democratic Party has always embraced Thomas Jefferson as its founder and leader. If he were around today, he would be appalled at what the party is doing.

Jefferson said, “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not” and “when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”

The Democratic Party, and the people of this nation, should take heed from the remarks of Jefferson, one of the greatest of the Founding Fathers of our nation, and return our country to its rightful owners, we, the people.

And why has President Barack Obama insisted on a “fast track” for all his legislative programs: the stimulus package bloated by more pork than substance, the budget bloated with more pork than substance, a health care bill that is opposed by more people than are for it?

Yet, when it comes to Afghanistan, he drags his feet, giving us excuses as to why he hasn’t made a decision.

It’s obvious that he doesn’t want to announce his Afghanistan decision until he has his health care bill passed for fear of losing congressional votes no matter what his decision is.

Yet, all the while, our military personnel in Afghanistan are dying every day from lack of presidential leadership. We got the change promised by his presidential campaign.  No integrity and no backbone.

Phil Cordes
Seymour, Ind.