Regarding letter writer David Sandoe’s assessment of President Obama (Monitor letters, April 4), I’d change it this way, showing Obama pulled too far right:
He began his first term continuing the wrongdoing of the Bush-Cheney years, expanding the war in the Middle East into additional sovereign countries.
He appeared weak on constitutional awareness when he let his attorney general voice that if whistle-blower Edward Snowden came home, he’d “not be killed or jailed.” Our Constitution would give Snowden a trial by jury of his peers.
As commander-in-chief, Obama has not hesitated to fall in line with our military’s drive for action. He’s added $1 trillion spending on new nuclear weapons. Shame on Obama.
At the start, Obama gave away single-payer health care, so we end up with health care and its profit-driven middlemen. We pay money for health care that is actually not spent on health care but is given to investors as companies’ profits.
Obama undermines the EPA when giving permission (after fits and starts the work was abandoned) for oil exploration by Shell in the Arctic.
In 2011 he reauthorized the Patriot Act as Bush-Cheney used it, despite Sens. Rand Paul and Patrick Leahy calling for increased congressional oversight.
He is oblivious to the folly of isolating Russia. Ukraine was sidelined as an issue, but our NATO is heavily involved there to threaten Putin and Russia.
The following terms come to mind in describing his performance: in over his head, shortsighted and lacking in vision.
Lynn Rudmin Chong
Sanbornton