Awakening to reality

Beautiful dream: 2016 has just made its entrance and the world is a better place, the majority of its citizens are better off than seven years ago before the American president, BO, first took office. Peace reigns largely through the wisdom, strength and resolve of the American president who, through thick and thin, supported territorial status quo, keeping Islamic terrorism contained and Islamic governments in the Middle East and Africa intact, countering the arguments of his own State Department toward their destabilization.

Domestically, BO carried out his promise to unite America and refused to incite racial discord, choosing instead a fair-handed approach to each problem his administration encountered, to the delight of the majority of his constituency.

Early in his presidency, his pals rigged the home mortgage system in favor of loose-credit practices; but he discarded them and went on to make stockholders, instead of taxpayers, suffer the ensuing losses, saving the American taxpaying public the $1 trillion-plus that would have otherwise added to the nation’s debt. (Overall, his wise economic moves kept the debt at the $9 trillion level he inherited from his predecessor instead of today’s $18-plus trillion.)

Illegal immigration into America, which could have been a major problem if previous administrations’ ineffective problems had been continued, was dramatically slowed; and our European allies have breathed a collective sigh of relief that BO avoided destabilizing the Middle East, which would have flooded them with refugees.

When the administration finally give China the choice of playing ball with accepted rules or facing punishing tariffs on the goods it sold in America, China was finally made to realize it would pay too heavy of a price if it continued to rig its currency. A dose was also given to Mexico, which, together with China, saw many American manufacturers move their operations back to America.

Some problems remain for the next administration to tackle; but all in all, America will be missing BO. He has brought us closer together and most Americans are wishing he had a third term.

But then, waking came, and with it the sad reality that none of this was true: BO was still AWOL — out there, somewhere, golfing (or dreaming of gun control).

Jack Pope

Thomasville

President deserves       impeachment

As a constitutionalist and a veteran, I have often thought of President Obama as incompetent.

After his numerous executive orders, bypassing Congress and defaming the Constitution, I now am convinced that he should have been impeached years ago and charged with treason!

No one who believes in the United States of America as a “client nation” from God would do any of the things he has done the last seven years!  

Jimmy Atkins

T’homasville

Willing to share mementoes

My mother, Burta Ruth Horton, graduated from Thomasville High School in June 1941.

I recently found some of her personal items, many of which are related to her graduation. I have several photos of her good friend, Mary Louvenia Young.

I also discovered printed graduation cards for Young, Elizabeth Lillian Ziegler and Katherine Ross (under Ross’ printed name, someone wrote in “N.A. Ross and family).

If you or someone you know, would be interested in these, I’ll be happy to send them to you. Contact me at drrsharples@gmail.com. By the way, Mom will be 93 in April!

Russ Sharples

Albemarle, N.C.