Burning Down the House: Legitimate Obama Criticisms

(a bit strident--what's new?--but it's in response to a local letter to the editor that got under my skin. sorry). 

Listen, I’m not the biggest fan of the job done by Pres. Obama over the last 3.5 years. I’m strongly considering a vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, but I just wish his opponents would do at least one of two things: fact-check and/or criticize the president on legitimate matters.

Some recent criticisms:

-What has this President done to curtail anyone’s 2^nd Amendment rights? Nothing.

-Guantanamo opened under the last president, not this one (criticize him for not closing it).

-“Fast and Furious”—an ill-conceived and executed plan that came from law enforcement and had nothing to do with the current president.

-Solyndra. Really? You mean this is the first time a company received government money and didn’t deliver? Gosh, don’t tell the bailed-out banks.

-Trayvon Martin dies; the President consoles. What did I miss?

-Gasoline prices? I remember paying about $4.50/gal during the summer of ’08—before President Obama was elected.

What this president has actually done:

-Ordered the execution of US citizens abroad by drones for alleged crimes—where’s the due-process?

-Not withdrawn from Afghanistan, where our troops continue to die—for what?

-Prosecuted whistleblowers like no other president before him—if we follow the rule of law, the US won’t be embarrassed by the likes of Julian Assange.

-Failed to prosecute anyone for the ’08 collapse of Wall Street that negatively impacted everyone reading this right now.

-Fostered an aggressive foreign policy that has yielded more enemies of the US than before he came to office.

If you want this president out, fine. But help your cause by focusing on things that matter, not talk show fodder. Use at least one other source besides Fox/Rush/Beck, and pressure our representative government to do the People’s will, not the will of some corporate donor pulling the strings.