One of the your right-wing readers used the controversy over Chick-fil-A to launch a scathing and groundless attack against President Barack Obama ("Left's reaction so predictable," Views of Our Readers, Aug. 5). He called Obama's record "abysmal" and accused him of rallying "his leftist base with contempt for all traditional American values."
What a crock of baloney and nonsense.
Obama's record includes giving the order that led to removing Osama bin Laden from the planet, rescuing the American auto industry from collapse and thereby saving at least a million jobs, preventing our nation from plunging into another Great Depression, and Congress passing the Affordable Care Act to help millions of Americans gain access to better health care -- something several presidents before Obama could not get Congress to do.
Obama has proposed doing far more, including the passage of an American Jobs Bill that would put several million Americans back to work, but Republicans in Congress refuse to cooperate. They have let their hatred for Obama stand in the way of doing what is good for the country.
If the writer wants to talk about running up record debt, let's talk about both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The national debt more than doubled under each of their presidencies, and that has not happened under Obama.
As for taxes, they have been reduced for millions of Americans under Obama, and the charge there will be massive tax increases on small businesses during a second Obama term is as bogus as a three-dollar bill.
Regarding unemployment, there has been a steady increase in the number of jobs created over the past 30 months, and several million more Americans would already be at work if Republicans had not blocked the American Jobs Bill.
David T. Morgan