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Empty promises abound

In response to Stanley Carpenter’s June 10 letter (“Voluminous venom spewed”) about President Obama: Carpenter might want to read the Mona Charen column printed the same day. Charen lists just eight of the many empty promises and threats Obama has spewed out since he was elected into office.

His most recent offense was the release of the worst of the Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for an American prisoner who several former platoon soldiers claim was a deserter, not a hero.

Carpenter should consider the barrage of intended misinformation and denial of association in which our president and his back-pocket politicians have been entangled since brought into office. It is not the right wing that should be feared; it is Obama’s executive orders and authoritative judges who use their power to override majority votes and make America look the fool.

A quote by Walt Kelly says it best: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Mindy Wright

Spokane Valley

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