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Obama’s critics have short memories; Alex Yawor; Beaver County Times; January 28, 2010.
Some of Mr. Yawor’s previous letters attempted to bash then-President Bush regarding Iraq and Iran, and then-VP Cheney regarding his hunting accident. In a July 2006 letter, Mr. Yawor implied if you supported our action in Iraq, you were “eager to send our young to die in Iraq.” Two of Mr. Yawor’s letters tried to elevate Jimmy Carter (here and here).
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“A recent e-mail from a Republican friend blamed President Barack Obama for increasing the national debt.”
[RWC] This is the third letter from Mr. Yawor in about three weeks and the second to complain about Obama-related e-mail. As you read this letter you’ll find Mr. Yawor doesn’t deny the accusations in the e-mail note. Mr. Yawor just says the equivalent of “Oh yeah? Your guy did it too.”
“At the end of the letter as a picture of a trillion dollar bill. Obama’s picture was on the front, and I won’t say what was on the back.
“My friend wanted me to forward this letter to my family and friends.
“Let’s go back a few years. G.W. Bush took office with a Republican House and Senate. The national debt was $5.7 trillion. Eight years later, after Bush’s watch, the national debt was $10.6 trillion.
“However, I didn’t get an e-mail about this or a picture of Bush on front of a five-trillion dollar bill with Cheney and a bunch of fat-cat Republicans on the back and telling me to forward it to my family and friends.”
[RWC] Have you ever noticed how lefties always talk about “fat-cat Republicans” while failing to talk about “fat-cat” Democrats like the Clintons, the Kennedys, Jon Corzine (newly ex-NJ governor), Sen. John Kerry (MA, husband of Teresa Heinz), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Bill Gates, George Soros, Peter Lewis, John Edwards, et cetera? Of the 10 richest members of Congress, eight are Democrats.
“The Republicans are also all over Obama for spending large sums of money on bailouts. Bush started the bailouts, but I didn’t see anything about that in the letters to the editor.”
[RWC] Yep, then-President Bush unwisely started the bailouts. What Mr. Yawor fails to note is then-Sen. Obama (D-IL) was in full agreement and voted for the bailout bills.
“It seems like it is OK for one group of people to do something that is wrong, but not OK for anyone else to do the same thing. It doesn’t seem quite right.”
[RWC] If you’re familiar with Mr. Yawor’s letter-writing body of work, you must be rolling on the floor laughing at this paragraph.
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