An Email for Your Consideration

April 17, 2009

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America. You are responsible to the citizens of the United States. You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You don’t show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!

Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Every real American

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The above is an email that is currently making the rounds of the Internet. I don't totally agree with everything said, and I sort of resent the use of the term "Every real American" in the signature.

I personally want to wait to see what happens as Mr. Obama grows and matures in his job description. I believe that 2008 did not present us with much of a choice for President. I can't say that McCain would have been a better choice, but I do believe that he at least had the experience and maturity that Mr. Obama lacks as a politician. And, I'm sorry, I believe that it does make a difference. I would prefer that my President have some experience of running something such as a city or state before trying to run the country. But, we have to learn to live with what we have, rather than what we want.

I said before the election that, in my opinion, Mr. Obama was too green, inexperienced, and immature in the politicial arena to be a viable candidate and thought that would be his undoing. I think that too many voters looked beyond that and could only see his skin color. I am not suggesting that is the only reason he was elected, but I believe that his skin color was a big consideration for people on both sides.

I think that some of the things he's done, such as bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia (and there is debate as to whether that was really a bow) happened simply because of his inexperience. Perhaps someone not used to meeting heads of state automatically did what others were doing. Could it be that although Mr. Obama knows he is the POTUS, it was sort of a "Wow! That's the King of Saudi Arabia!" and reacted as the "common" citizen he has been for forty-some years, not as the POTUS he has been for weeks? If so, it's the immaturity of the politician, not necessarily that he was bowing in any sort of submission.

There is also a certain amount of courtesy involved. I would never suggest that our President bow in submission to another head of state, but acknowledgement when visiting another country of the sovereignity of the ruling monarch is something I can personally live with. To me, that indicates more character than either submission or immaturity.

As for the signature, "Every real American" implies that if you disagree with the writer, you are not a true American. I beg to differ. I believe that most of the people who support Mr. Obama are "true" Americans who believe that he can make America what they think it can and should be. It's a rather subjective topic.

In some ways, I'd like to return to the "simpler" days of say, mid-twentieth century. But then, they had to deal with WWII, Korea, the Cold War, and without the conveniences of computers, cell phones, microwave ovens, laser surgery, iPod and MP3 players, automatic transmissions in cars, call waiting and forwarding (which I could really do without), the medical advancements of the last 50 years and a whole host of other things that we take for granted. And, if you think about it, sometime in the future, we'll look back on today as "the good old days", or a "simpler time".

In any case. I'm a real American. And as a real American, I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion. And while I don't agree with everything "Every real American" wrote, he (or she) is entitled to an opinion.

Thank God we still have that right.