Regarding "Obama to GOP: Sue me? Impeach me? For what?" (July 10) I am a doddering old fogy who has seen many presidents come and go during a lifetime of Beltway focus. I can recall none as snarky as Barack Obama as he assaults his opponents. This unfortunate approach to political discourse, acceptable perhaps in an elite faculty lounge, is offensive when displayed in public, as if it is more important to President Obama that he be perceived as cool by his acolytes than correct.

With teleprompted slickness and rhetorical recklessness, Obama regales us with an unrelenting jeremiad against Republicans as if, having bested them twice for the presidency, they should possess the grace to slink from the political battlefield and remain mute as testimony to his genius. As a good narcissist, he finds no fault with his own policies while upbraiding the loyal opposition for, heaven forfend, being opposed to them.

The more real-world events conspire against him, the larger becomes the Potemkin Village he is constructing in the Rose Garden. The president distorts, ignores, forgets and invents facts as reality becomes uncongenial to his desires, for he has never encountered a refractory fact that could not be slain with a rhetorical flourish delivered, of course, with supreme smugness.

The greater the chance of exposure for pursuing policies inimical to our welfare, the greater the pressure to blame others. Obama is aided in this subterfuge by a servile progressive media which is unapologetic in its support, so sure is it that Republicans are to blame for having the audacity to represent their constituents, 47.8 percent of the voters in the last presidential election.

Recent polls indicate that a majority of the American people no longer trust that Obama will do the right thing and that 33 percent consider him the worst president since World War ll. This will become a paralyzing problem the closer he skirts to political Dada, the movement that celebrates absurdity while disdaining logic and clarity.

Paul Bloustein, Sycamore Township