The America I grew up in would never have elected Barack Obama as president. People were a lot more intelligent, I think, in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. They would not have bought into that “Hope and change” silliness and they would not have had a corrupt and biased media selecting and electing an unvetted and unknown “empty suit” from Chicago as president.

Now, the nation faces a hotly contested presidential campaign that should be no contest, given the abysmal record of the Obama presidency that the media continues to blindly support.

Obama’s “yes we can” has given way to “why we couldn’t.”

He has not presented a budget for more than three years and failed to get a single vote in the Senate or House on the only one he did submit. Meanwhile, he has run the national debt up another $6 trillion to more than $16 trillion, with four straight years of deficits more than a trillion dollars.

An administration that adds 11,327 pages of new federal regulations and forced the largest (2,700 pages) and worst legislation in history (ObamaCare) down the people’s throats is a failure.

The president, instead of providing leadership to stimulate the staggering national economy, has done 250 campaign events, has spent more than 600 hours on the golf course (while only 412 in economic meetings) and has failed to show up for 57 percent of his intelligence meetings (from the Drudge report).

George Jones, Otisfield