Name:   Buteye - Subject:   Trump the birther Date:   9/17/2016 11:47:51 PM

Without creating a diatribe, I will offer a few thoughts and then bow out. First, I thought hope and change was going to help unite us as a country and provide opportunities for those most in need. Instead, we have become even more divided, more families are in poverty, millions have given up looking for jobs, immigration policies have negatively affected our own citizens who are without jobs, Obama Care has severely impacted families by requiring outrageous deductibles, workers have lost jobs because of senseless enactment of new EPA regulations, the United States is no longer respected around the world, etc. I don't think anyone has forgotten that we were lied to time and time again to facilitate the passage of Obama Care. Obama ran for President on the platform of "transparency" and nothing has been further from the "truth". You want to justify the payment made to Iran as a non-issue because we owed them the money. If everything was above board, why was the money secretly delivered by a private aircraft in the dead of night simultaneously with the release of those who were being heid in captivity? What was wrong with being "transparent" and telling Congress and the American people the real truth? The "plan" was that everything was to be secret, but once the truth was revealed, it became necessary to "lie". Why is it that we bow to the demands of Ayatollah Khamenei, who he and the people of Iran preach "Death to America" and burn the American flag? They take every opportunity to "thumb" their nose at America and embarass us to the world. Remember the pictures of our sailors being heid at "gun point" on their two boats and the pictures showing them in captivity? I cringe every time I think about that situation. I could go on all night and I question the character of those who defend Obama and his administration regarding some of the viewpoints I have shared in this post.