Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

President has earned nation’s respect

In Robert Gardner’s Saturday letter to the editor, he cites three instances to support his claim that President Barack Obama is the most arrogant person to live in the White House and that Gardner has lost all respect for him.

My father told me long ago that you can’t buy respect but must earn it, that it is better to be on the right side of the issue than the wrong — and one way of earning respect is by accepting personal responsibility. So was President Obama being arrogant or championing personal responsibility in the three instances, all of which undeniably pitted special interests against the public good?

First, when President Obama reminded U.S. Sen. John McCain it was he and not McCain who was elected president, he was speaking of his own personal responsibility in getting health care reform passed as it was part of his campaign and an ideal that Democrats have fought on behalf of for more than 50 years.

Second, President Obama also questioned the correctness (and therefore the responsibility of the majority members who ruled in favor) of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which will open the floodgates of uncontrolled spending in political races and allow improper foreign influence upon the same.

Third, is it arrogance or a call for personal responsibility on the part of Congressman Paul Ryan, whose proposed budget will result in senior citizens receiving in the year 2030 only one-third of the Medicare benefits they now enjoy?

At all times during his campaign and presidential tenure, Barack Obama has acted with class, honor and dignity. Dig deep in the recesses of your memory and one will not remember one instance in which President Obama acted with arrogance. Bring on Aretha Franklin.

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