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Obama a failure as tyrant

A May 17 letter says, “Our country is salvageable from the tyranny under which we now find ourselves,” and goes on to criticize our “elected president” for “changing … freedom itself.”

Well, now, what kind of tyranny do we have if someone can complain about it in a letter published by the newspaper? Has the writer been arrested? Have the editorial-page editors? Has the Herald-Leader been seized by the government or shut down?

And this Obama guy? You’d think, being born in Africa, he would make a better tyrant, since they raise them like weeds there. Why, he hasn’t even done us the favor of getting rid of Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Jim Hanna

Lexington

This story was originally published June 2, 2016 at 6:38 PM with the headline "Obama a failure as tyrant."

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