Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the editor:

There is an easy explanation for why President Trump is trying every lie and cheap attack to tear down the impressive national and international image of Barack Obama.

The former president is everything that Trump would love to be but is not. Obama is a brilliant intellectual, highly literate, athletic and a gifted politician and leader with an intense dedication and compassion for the country and the American people.

Politically the former president is beloved and deeply respected all over the world, especially among our allies in Europe. With Obama, the U.S. would never have become the confused shipwreck without any compass that it is now with Trump.

Let’s hope that Obama can help it sailing again into a bright future.

Liselotte Millauer, Hollywood

Note from KBJ: Don't forget "clean," Liselotte.

Wow. @CNN got caught cold manipulating the words and meaning of my 4th of July Speech. They were brazen, desperate. Watch what happens!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2020

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I have been a lifelong conservative and have never voted for a Democrat for president of United States—until now.

The nation, more than anything else at this moment, needs divisions healed and to be brought together in unity. The tweet recently posted by President Donald Trump, where the man in the golf cart is yelling “white power,” says many things about the values and attitudes of our president. It demonstrates clearly that not only is he not interested in promoting healing and unity, he actively promotes division and hatred.

This video graphically portrays two groups yelling profanities and vitriol at one another. This is the division the president is actively promoting to split the nation between his base and everyone else, and encourage animosity between these two groups. The great presidents of the past who brought Americans together in unity in difficult times—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan—were great communicators and effective promoters of unity in difficult times.

Trump is not worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as these great American leaders.

David Ivers, Mill Creek

Note from KBJ: Barack Obama, who is half white and half black, had a chance to unite this country. He divided it. Donald Trump is uniting it. David Ivers is too filled with hatred to grasp this.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

All lives matter.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020

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