Mercy! Hamlet would probably say, “Methinks the ladies doth protest too much!”

Both Sarah Walsh and Elizabeth Russell, in the March edition of Kingston Community News, go bonkers over my previous comments concerning Marylin Olds’ missing the issue of why Trump was elected. Olds’ rant was mainly name-calling (I’m out of context, Liz says.)

Ladies, Trump was elected because of Obama’s two-faced sorry performance, both at home and abroad.

Apparently, you gals hadn’t noticed how many U.S. House and Senate majorities were realized by Republicans during Obama’s tenure, as well as in state offices and governorships, due mostly to his excessive liberal policies.

Obama and the Democratic Congress, a la Pelosi and Reid, absolutely refused to work across the aisle and, after facing an opposing majority, Obama used only his “tongue and his pen.” Had the Democrats sought the Republicans to work on a mutually satisfying, sustainable Affordable Care Act, we wouldn’t be having healthcare chaos today.

Arrogance at home and timidity (cowardness) abroad was Obama’s MO. He lectured us: “Words matter.” Apparently Syria’s Assad, the Iranian Ayatollah, Putin and China’s Xi never got the memo. (But the Ayatollah got the cash — with interest — on an unscheduled night flight yet!) “We can believe only in deeds; words go for nothing everywhere.” (Hernandez Rojas, attrib.) Still true today.

Trump isn’t perfect by a long shot. His ego is embarrassing — except to himself. And he’s wrong in not addressing the unsustainable Social Security and Medicare entitlements, which fiscally responsible people (Paul Ryan, et. al.) consider urgent.

But Trump’s picks of Sessions for attorneyt general, Gorsuch for Supreme Court, and Pruitt for EPA, to name a few, speak volumes to his commitment for the rule of law and the literal interpretation of the Constitution. That’ll be a paradigm shift from the last eight years, and a much-needed correction for the Republic!

If Trump will just settle down and work with his congressional majority, he’ll do fine.

Relax, ladies. You can quit your “Safe Spaces” now.

Jack Lay

Kingston