[Hoot Gibson]

I have a very difficult time trying to put my feelings into words; especially when it comes down to a subject that I'm passionate about, or one that effects so many people.

I HATE what the Obama administration has done to my little corner of the world here in Harlan County. He has made good on his promise to take coal down, as far as I'm concerned. And so much happens after that. The trickle down effect has been morphed into the FLOOD effect.

There are so many folks leaving here because they must find jobs to support their families...so we are losing a lot of good decent hard working families, and replacing them with illegal aliens and parasites of the government.

I know that I will be accused of being politically incorrect, well I am.

What few people are left here with good jobs are supporting the masses. I believe this to be a country wide and not just county wide problem.

I have a really hard time trying to decipher the reasons why Obama wanted to do this, and why he has the support to win 2 elections.

I know I'm getting older and more set in my ways, but to do the harm that he has done just doesn't make sense to me.

Obama set out to destroy the coal industry for one reason and one reason only. Money.

Think about the political donations that have poured into his campaign from crusading anti-mining environmental wacko groups and Hollywood liberals. Compare that to the political donations that people involved in the coal industry would have contributed to an unqualified left wing political hack like Obama. For somebody like Obama, deciding to destroy a major American industry and thousands of jobs in return for votes and cash.

The sad thing is, too many folks in places like Floyd and Knott counties cannot make the connection between liberals like Obama, the poverty in eastern Kentucky, and the Democratic Party. There is no reason for a would-be Obama rubber stamp to carry a single county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky tomorrow, but it is a safe bet that some of the poorest, hardest hit counties in the Obama War on Coal will be blue at the end of the day.