According to Sen. Marco Rubio’s Jan 10 Other Views column, U.S. silent as Ortega assaults democracy, Mahmoud Amadinejad’s and Daniel Ortega’s “attacks on democracy” in Iran and Nicaragua, respectively, are Obama’s fault.
Yet Ortega was president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990, and has been since winning the election of 2006. Amadinejad came into office in 2005, in a system where the real power is with clerics.
So for most of their times in office, Ronald Reagan and/or one or another Bush was U.S. president. Yet somehow their antics are now Obama’s fault, who has been in office only since 2009, and who inherited the worst crises this country has faced since the Depression and World War II eras, compliments of the Republican Party. I can’t help but be fascinated with, and highly entertained by, Republican “logic.”
Joel T. Heinen, Miami

















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