Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Over the past month, I, as all Virginians, have been saturated with Obama’s ads on Bain Capital and Mitt Romney. Frankly, while many of the ads are entertaining, they are not intellectually honest.

President Obama has begun his negative ad campaign too early. Of course, this is due to the fact that the Obama people are worried. While some polls (NYT/Gallup) have him winning with 300 or more electoral votes, other, more reliable polls have this race down to the wire (Rasmussen). I am one who firmly believes the race will be decided by three or four key states. Florida is a must win for Romney; he should choose Marco Rubio to be his running mate. Ohio and New Hampshire are key as well. Romney has made significant progress in both states. Finally, the Old Dominion may very well select the next president.

All of these things make any voter look at Obama’s record. Using his own sources, the Office of Management and Budget (www.whitehouse.gov), which is staffed mostly with his people, all voters have to examine is the amount of excessive spending Obama and his followers have wasted in the past four years to get a glimpse of the next four.

2009 Obama was responsible for $1.44 trillion; 2010 Obama was responsible for $1.29 trillion; 2011 Obama was responsible for $1.3 trillion; and in 2012 Obama is responsible for $1.32 trillion in new debt.

For the record, no U.S. President has ever had four consecutive trillion dollar deficits! George W. Bush’s worst year was 2008 and it was $458 billion. While Congress holds the purse, Obama has failed to submit a budget. He relies on continuing resolutions and the obstruction of Harry Reid in the Senate. All the while, Obama continues with his sophomoric blaming of Bush for our problems.

Make sure you see these numbers again! $5.35 trillion in four years! The republic cannot, under any circumstance, survive four more years of this man.

Forget the other issues. Obama equals a financial disaster. He had a chance to do the right thing. His first job on 20 January 2009 should have been the economy, not Obamacare! And yet, last weekend he spoke of infrastructure, education, and green energy. It was the same old tired speech from 2008.

“You didn’t build it” reveals Obama real anti-American views. He is, of course, the product of far left liberal mentors and politicians. Where is the outcry against this president in the media? Obama’s real views are rarely seen. Last month in Roanoke, we saw his true colors. They are not red, white and blue.

Of course Democrats will scream about all the mess he had to deal with, but he has owned this now for three and half years. We have had 42 consecutive weeks of over 8 percent unemployment. Just this week, we learned of 8.3 percent unemployment (up 1/10)! The national debt is $15.8 trillion! Jimmy Carter doesn’t seem so bad now, does he?

Obama should stick to being a community organizer and a part-time law professor. He has no clue how to run this country.

D. Peterson Teagle

Gloucester, Va.