The Issue: Whether President Obama is living up to voter expectations and his campaign for reelection.
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Leon Cooperman eloquently and respectfully hits the nail on the head (“Please, Mr. President,” PostOpinion, Nov. 30).
The president acts at his own reelection peril if he does not heed such advice.
Mark Patterson
New London, Conn.
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If Cooperman had listened to what Obama said during the 2008 campaign, taken note of his associations, researched his background and read his books, he would not have been disappointed with his failure to “bring a salutary change of direction to the country.”
Instead, like those of us who knew from the outset that he was a statist ideologue out to destroy our capitalist system, Cooperman would have expected the debacle we see today.
Carl Rosenberg
Syosset
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Three cheers for Coo-perman.
He hit the campaigner-in-chief right between the eyes.
As the nation’s leader, the president should be pulling us together, not dividing us by class.
Paul Gioglio
North Babylon
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How can one have a civil debate with someone who has drawn a line in the sand?
Obama was willing to give and take, while House Speaker John Boehner & Co. were only willing to take, demanding a singular approach and clearly ignoring the best interests of the working people on Medicare and Social Security.
Republicans even ignored the needs of industry by refusing to educate workers or consider building such necessities as roads, water access or sewage disposal.
Can one debate with a person or group that says that it has the truth and that no one else knows anything?
Jacob Chackers
New Canaan, Conn.
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Cooperman’s letter taking Obama to task for his divisive and corrosive reliance on class warfare in his quest for a second term is excellent.
Cooperman makes all the correct arguments that, I’m sure, the president knows.
Obama is cynically stoking the basest of human characteristics in a desperate effort to stave off electoral defeat.
Simply stated, he is putting himself before the country he is sworn to serve.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati
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I am somewhat amused by the likes of Cooperman.
He writes a very cogent letter, but it’s likely that he not only voted for Obama, but also contributed copiously to his campaign.
Now he is disappointed and feels that if he just writes a public missive to his paragon, all will turn out well.
Since the Obama coalition consists of the arrogant, the narcissistic and the ignorant, it’s up to Cooperman to determine which group he belongs to.
He has some nerve to complain about a president whom he helped foist on the rest of us, including those of us who rejected Obama from the onset.
Cooperman chooses to ignore Obama’s association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
He ignores Obama’s contempt for those of us who, out of bitterness, “cling” to guns and our Bibles and ignores Obama’s reply to Joe the Plumber that wealth redistribution would be a good thing.
So many of these things should have been flashing red lights to voters.
What Cooperman should have done was write a letter of apology to those of us who were forced to endure the results of his insufferable ignorance in determining what would be best for less wealthy folks.
I await Cooperman’s remorse, not his expectation that all he need do is relight the pathway of our “lost” president.
Jerrold Engber
Guttenberg, NJ
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The president’s agenda essentially follows the rule of a classless society that is in allegiance to “the great dictator.”
Failing in this pipe dream, Obama has now encapsulated himself in a state of withdrawal and nonparticipation in government affairs.
Bernard Bovasso
Saugerties