Public's misplaced anger

Now, since Obama's presidency, all of a sudden folks have gotten mad and want to take America back. Back to what?

And where? After the eight years of the Bush/Cheney disaster, now you are mad? You did not get mad when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a president. You did not get mad when Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy and push us to invade Iraq. You did not get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. You did not get mad when we spent over $800 billion and counting on this illegal war. You did not get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 past presidents combined. You did not get mad when over $10 billion simply vanished from Iraq. You did not get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country. You did not get mad when they could not find Osama bin Laden. You did not get mad when Bush rang up $10 trillion in combined budget and current account deficits. You did not get mad when you saw the horrific conditions at Walter Reed Veterans Hospital. You did not get mad when we let a major U.S. city, New Orleans, drown.

Yet you finally get mad when a black man gets elected and decides that everyone in America deserves the right to see a doctor when they get ill.

ROBERT ANDRE GLASPER, Cape Girardeau