Obama needs to focus on US instead of bowing to others

Editor,

I have had it with President Obama and the slow decay of the American republic. Obama's conduct on his recent trip overseas has convinced me that he is not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

Obama is so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that he has abdicated the responsibilities of the president of the United States of America. He is responsible to the citizens of the United States. He is not responsible to the peoples of any other country on Earth. I personally resent that he goes around the world apologizing for the United States, telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world.

Where does he get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Has he not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the principles governing this country - at least until Obama came along - come directly from this heritage. Does he not understand this?

Obama bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia and president of Venezuela is an affront to all Americans. Our president does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia or the tyrant of Venezuela. He fails to show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve, yet he bows down to the king of Saudi Arabia. I am convinced that Obama and the members of his administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of themselves, all of them.

Obama is so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the hard-working American automobile manufacturers, yet does nothing about the real thieves in this situation: Sen. Chris Dodd, Rep. Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Bank of America and its corrupt CEO, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

I resent that the administration takes me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what the idiots in Washington, D.C., do. We are watching what they are doing, and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of them. I also want them to know that I personally find just about everything they do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise that I will work tirelessly in future campaigns to see that he does not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country. Please support Hillary Clinton for president in 2012.

Daniel Martinez

UNM alumnus