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Published October 02, 2012

Why would anyone re-elect the president?

PAUL ABBOTT

As Barack Obama stands for re-election the greatest question is why? What has he done in the last four years that would encourage anyone to think that he is capable of leading this country?

He has proved that he has no idea on how to get the economy going – just raise taxes, again. He has the worst economic record in the last 50 years. He complained about George W. Bush’s deficit, but then has four years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits. Under Obama the U.S. has lost its AAA bond rating for the first time, and just got downgraded again.

He was going to bring America together, but has spent the last four years engaging in class warfare. He has increased the number of people on food stamps to an all-time high. Rather than meeting with his own economic council, he would rather play golf (100-plus rounds), or go fundraising (more than 210 times).

After the 9/11/12 attacks on our embassies, he did manage to take a whole hour to comment on the situation, but then fly to Vegas for another fundraiser. We now know for the week after the attack he lied about the perpetrators. He calls the attacks and murders “a bump in the road.”

I don’t know that we could survive four more years of Obama.