Editor, Gazette-Journal:

An interesting title to a letter to the editor recently—something to the effect of "judge Obama from the results," which I believe most fair-minded Americans will do: A horrendous $5 trillion deficit left over from Bush’s eight years turned into $16 trillion in only three years. It would take a genius to waste this much money.

Appointing several far-left liberals, many of which, like Van Jones, who is an avowed communist, as Tsars without Congressional approval. Failure to take any lead in Congress to make certain important legislation gets passed and denying imperfect legislation such as the deeply flawed health care bill. The result of letting Harry Reid ram this legislation while using every trick known to tie up every one of the scores of Republican bills actually designed to put people to work.

Obama stopped the drilling in the Gulf while financing Brazil to drill off their coast, which results in an increased deficit while denying working people less-expensive fuel, which will force gasoline prices up to the $5 mark. Lest we forget, although we have right at this moment 670,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines, our president has stopped a mere 1,700-mile pipeline, preventing us from purchasing oil from our ally, Canada, who will start shipping it to China if something isn’t done.

And either the well-meaning writer is ignorant or just drinks the Kool-Aid, our Iraq misadventure was approved by not only then-Senator Obama, but a majority of his left-wing cohorts. As most readers know, I could go on and on; the most racially divisive president (read: Black Panther voter intimidation and the despicable smearing of black Republicans) ever, a laughingstock among our enemies, the first president in history to declare war on religion and among many other egregious errors, including his utter disdain for our friends, the Israelis (which many of us consider part of his attack on religion). Yes, I agree, judge this president by his results.

Warren Tyler

Bavon, Va.