AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

from Lou Pritchett, who worked for Procter & Gamble 23 years ago in soap sales and wrote two books.
 
 
Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

<Lou, I've lived under eleven presidents and we've had some scary ones, Nixon (authorizing an illegal break-in), Reagan (selling missiles to our enemies the Iranians and giving the profits to Central American drug dealers and when the sordid business came to light he passed the buck saying, 'Mistakes were made,' and left Oli North twisting in the wind),  and George W Bush (invading Iraq ostensibly to find WMD's but clearly to finish what his father never completed)  were truly scary. >

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

<Come on now, Lou, he has written numerous books many of which are autobiographical.  You might find Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama interesting unless of course you find Nelson Mandela scary too.  I guess since you know nothing about Obama, the rest of your letter is a regurgatation of that talk show hosted by a convicted drug addict and that other one who publicly admited that what he said on the air is 'ignorant'.>

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

<I don't see your point, Lou.  Surely you do not intend to innuendo that our President obtained the money for his Ivy League education from nefarious sources.   More likely Obama obtained student loans which he paid back with his highly successful book earnings as reported on Fox News.  You know Lou, if you search Barack Obama as an author on Amazon you will get 267 results.  His book earnings are quite substantial.   If you search Lou Pritchett, you get three results.  By the way, is the book you wrote, Stop Paddling and Start Rocking the Boat a 'how to guide' on obstructionism? >

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

<Yes, Lou, Obama lived in Jakarta from the age of 6 to the age of 10 but this does not make him an Indonesian nor does it deny him his American Cultural background.  What exactly do you mean 'culturally an American'?  I bet you just made that up.>

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

<Neither did Wilson, Hoover, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, or Reagan for that matter. >

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

<Neither does George W Bush really, nor Bill Clinton, not to mention Hoover or Nixon who were Friends (Quakers).  Did they scare you too?  Obama does have experience in the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate. >

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

<Lou, you must find politics very scary and when did he lack 'humility' and 'class'? >

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

<Half his life, huh.  What do you mean by 'to see America fail'?  Is not the violation of the Unalienable Rights that were endowed to all people by the Creator a failure?  Isn't tearing up the Constitution, suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus, and subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment all examples of America failing?  If you approve of these actions then you are a radical who wishes to see America fail. >

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

<Again, Lou you need to read Obama's books to find out what he is cheering.  You might start with Of Thee I Sing, A Letter to my Daughters. >

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

<The second reason you have for being scared of Obama is you don't know anything about him, so when you say what he wants you must not know what you're talking about Lou. >

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

<When Theodore Roosevelt advocated national health insurance when he ran for president in 1912? 

Were you scared when Nixon proposed that all corporations provide health care insurance?

136 - Special Message to the Congress Proposing Health Care Reform Legislation
February 25, 1976

Read more at the American Presidency Project: Gerald R. Ford: Special Message to the Congress Proposing Health Care Reform Legislationhttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=5618#ixzz1Z5w46aof

The individual mandate was originated from the George H.W. Bush(Republican) White House and supported by Republicans in 1993 George W Bush tort reform>

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

<The second reason you have for being scared of Obama is you don't know anything about him, so when you say what he wants you must not know what you're talking about Lou. >

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

<Wake up and smell the coffee, Lou, it's been quite a while since America has enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world.  The likes of Enron and Halliburton cut that goose up for pâté a long time ago. >

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

<Are these the banks and corporations that lent the money to people who couldn't pay their mortgage thereby causing the real estate 'bubble'.   Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should feel sorry for those who lost their homes to foreclosure, but I'm feeling sorry for those who haven't been foreclosed and have seen the value of their homes fall to a third of the value they paid for it.   Their greed in extending loans 'willy nilly' has led to widespread foreclosures turning the American dream into the American nightmare and is responsible for a rapid decline in the American standard of living. >

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

<Do your homework Lou, see which party is cemented in lock-step obstructionism the likes our nation has not seen since the 19th century. >

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

<Too bad you missed the health care summit. >

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

<Come Lou, did you come up with this yourself or did you hear it from some drug addict on the radio, or could it be Glenn Beck's delirium? >

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

<This conflicts with the following reason you're scared.  Is the media really giving Obama a free pass or does it really bother you that some people have opinions different than yours. >

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

<I thought those blockheads except for Beck were still on the air.  By the way, is Limbaugh still popping pills? >

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

<Isn't governing controlling?  Don't we need speed limits to reduce road fatalities?  Shouldn't impaired drivers be denied access to our highways?  Should people be allowed to market arsenic laced apple juice? >

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

<Is this because you feel that President Obama will renew the Patriot Act which circumvents our rights and liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? >