Most of what President Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don't know the facts -- and often sounds like sheer nonsense if you do.

This is the core of the issue. Too many are either ignorant of the facts, or willingly choose to ignore them. In the words of Ayn Rand: "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."

I pray that the deaf may hear, the dumb will become enlightened, and the blind will see what is happening to our great country.

"Hope and change" has yielded destructive results. Once burned, shame on him; twice burned, shame on U.S.

Steve Dickler

Hilton Head Island