Please ask letter writer Sen. Jim Rosapepe where I can buy the
fantasy rose-colored glasses he wears ("U.S. stronger, safer
under President Obama," Oct. 27). His claims that President
Barack Obama has made the world and the economy better than four
years ago by "hard power, soft power, and smart power" is just
not true.  By any measure, the economy is a lot worse than four
years ago. Records have been set for food stamp recipients while
around 23 million Americans are unemployed, not to mention that
President Obama is borrowing 40 cents on very dollar the
government spends (a social injustice at the highest level). The
recent Libya incident with the administration obfuscating, if
not outright lying, is an example of the non-openness of this
administration. And no measurable progress has been made with
Iran or North Korea. The war in Iraq was ended just as President
George W. Bush had planned, but a planned withdrawal in 2014 in
Afghanistan is the most ludicrous military strategy since bows
and arrows were mad