I enjoy reading conservative commentator Kathleen Parker. She recently questioned President Barack Obama’s schedulers — why they’d send him into North Carolina with John Edwards on trial and other scurrilous antics afoot.
Parker’s incredulous that Obama would travel into a “political storm.” She cities Dana Perino, George W. Bush’s former communications director: “Over my dead body would I have sent (Bush) to a state like that to do an event.”
Why anyone from the gung-ho Bush administration would dare utilize the term “Over my dead body” — is way beyond me.
Parker speculates (his) “incumbency confidence” as a possible reason for his foray into foul weather. His speech to students that day bolsters my confidence in his incumbency. Indeed, unless former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney turns water into wine at a frilly fundraiser, or raises Ronald Reagan from the afterlife, I believe Obama will achieve re-election.
Has his performance been perfect? Not hardly. We’re still in Afghanistan — getting nowhere. Wall Street piranhas still do business — everywhere. In Maine, Barber Foods continues to automate, laying off (another) 79 workers.
Obama struggles against this relentless corporate trend and other great odds not the least of which, frankly — is the color of his skin. Yet he perseveres.
When Romney cites his current wealth as “somewhere between $150 and $250 million” and members of America’s middle class cite their current wealth at between $150 and $250, we’ve got difficult problems yet to solve.
In my view, President Obama represents our best hope to resuscitate the middle class. The middle class is our best hope to resuscitate America. I applaud Obama’s courage and conviction to travel anywhere, at any time on behalf of this country and the ideals for which it, he and I stand.
Buddy Doyle
Gardiner
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