President Barack Obama wrote he was a poor student with bad grades. He could not get into college on his own merits.

He wrote that he smoked pot and used hard drugs.

He associated himself with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, ACORN, William Ayers, Tony Rezko and David Axelrod.

He wrote, "When the ill winds blow, I will always stand with the Muslims."

He has never held a job or owned a business.

He has spent more time campaigning and playing golf than creating jobs and reducing expenses.

He promised Russia better days ahead when he thought no one could hear.

He provides taxpayer funds to businesses that have ties to his donors.

He campaigns with tactics from the gutter -- fabrications, innuendo, unsubstantiated allegations, distortions and all forms of mudslinging.

He claims he cannot control the actions of political action committees supporting him, yet refuses to repudiate their outrageous accusations.

He refuses to accept responsibility for his decisions when things don't go his way and places blame for bad outcomes on whatever external factors he can dream up.

He lacks character, in stark contrast with that of our active-duty service members, veterans and Olympic athletes.

Why would anyone elect a person with such a lack of integrity and absent moral compass to be president of this great country?

Pete Welch

Hilton Head Island