Politics and Insights from History

October 23, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

Pardon me while I refuse to worship the very ground you walk on and refuse to sing praises to you. You already have a bunch of children indoctrinated by useful idiots to sing praises to a man who cares only for himself and his selfish gains. You must be proud that children are being taught to worship you. I’m sure you watch the video daily on You Tube with that smug smile on your face while fulfilling your constant need for praise and to be admired. These songs used to be sung to praise Jesus or America’s heritage. Now the lyrics have been changed to honor you, you who has done nothing to earn your lot in life. You are a tyrant who has betrayed this country so that you can bring about your socialist reforms all in the name of social justice. The ninth level of hell awaits you, sir, as it does all traitors.

But this praise does fall in line with the current school system in this country that rewards failure instead of success and you are failing to win the war in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has asked for more troops. Why have you not sent them? Why do you continue to piddle around with indecision? You meet with a war council to determine the proper strategy for Afghanistan when your general on the field has a strategy and undoubtedly informed you of it, assuming that you even bother to listen to him. You are not a military man, Mr. President, and neither are any of the members of your council. General McChrystal has a strategy and needs more troops to see it through. Send him the troops. We have a chance to win this war. Your indecision will cause us to lose. But, this is what you want, isn’t it? You talked about winning in Afghanistan during your presidential campaign and have yet to follow through. I do not think you ever had any intention of winning the war. Those speeches were a ploy to get you elected.

When was the last time you had a conversation with General McChrystal? February? Do you even care what he has to say about the situation in Afghanistan? He is the General leading our men and women against the terrorists in Afghanistan and unless you have someone better able to do the job, I suggest you listen to him and give him what he needs to win. Considering your lack of leadership, it is unlikely that you could appoint anyone to do a better job than General McChrystal.

Let me get to the real reasons why you refuse to send General McChrystal more troops:

1. It would make General McChrystal the center of attention, thus taking the spotlight away from you.

2. It would mean a stronger stance on the War On Terror; something you are afraid of doing. You do not even call this the War on Terror anymore. You pander to the Islamic world; frightened of angering the poor little Muslims. (Unless you have secretly retained your Muslim identity and therefore are helping them take over Western Civilization by weakening the United States.)

3. Following General McChrystal’s advice would prove that George Bush was correct in invading Iraq and Afghanistan. This would go against your desire to ruin your predecessor by constantly blaming him for your troubles and for a needless war. You knew what you were inheriting when you first campaigned for the presidency. What the nation is currently suffering now is a direct result of YOUR policies. You are incapable of accepting responsibility for your actions. Instead, you continue to blame Bush and ram legislation down America’s throat that will result in bloating the size of the Federal government, a bigger deficit, higher taxes, higher unemployment, less jobs in the private sector, and a collapsed economy as America’s prosperity weakens and the vulturous nations of the world pick us apart.

4. You do not want to win in Afghanistan. A victory would mean a stronger and more powerful America. You do not want America to be strong. Your refusal to do what needs to be done in Afghanistan is proof enough. But you have also vowed to disarm the United States of her nuclear weapons at a time when our enemies have grown bolder and show no fear of retaliation from us should we be attacked. The closing of Gitmo without any plan of what to do with its prisoners and the pulling out of Iraq before we even finished freeing them from the terrorists that moved there are other examples of your wish to weaken the U.S.

It appears that the only war you are waging is that on freedom of speech, the press, and the right of the people to openly oppose you. For now your focus has been discrediting Fox News. Your problem with Fox News is the fact that they are reporting the facts about ACORN’s corruption, its influence on you, and that it will receive federal money thanks to your “stimulus” bill. Fox News continues to report the number of czars you continue to appoint without senate approval, save for maybe 9 of the 35. Fox reports who these czars are, their radical ideas and rantings, and how they are the ones advising you. They report on the special interests that will benefit from you Health Care Bill: SEIU, ACORN, the Drug Companies that gave $100 million to support your socializing of medicine.[i] Fox News even reports the promises that you have broken thus far. They are the only news organization that is critical of you. And you cannot stand criticism. Your disdain for Fox News, and any opposition, comes through in your speeches. Your press secretary, Robert Gibbs, treats the Fox News correspondent with disgust and continually demonstrates his loathing for Fox. His haughty reference to Glen Beck’s and Sean Hannity’s shows on Fox portrays his hatred of the dissenting opinion offered by the network.

You hate Beck and Hannity because they report what the media will not, but they freely tell people what they think of you and any politician who is endangering this country. You and your ilk have yet to refute any of their claims. If what they say if false, present the evidence. Instead you engage in character assassination. You attempt to make people feel guilty for listening to them. None of you can prove that Fox News has made false claims.

Let us face the facts, Mr. President. You hate Fox News because they, unlike the other networks, refused to bow before you and worship at your feet. You hate Fox because they report the news whether it makes you look good or bad. You hate them because they offer shows with more conservative viewpoints than what ABC or NBC has to offer. But most importantly, you hate Fox News because people are listening to them and waking up. People are no longer remaining ignorant of what you and your minions are doing in Washington. These same people are wondering if they made the right choice in voting for you. These people are getting together in open opposition to the direction you wish to take America. Fox News is a messenger that refused to fall in line with your demands. They are a messenger that people are listening to. People like you thrive on the ignorance of others. Therefore you have waged war against Fox in the hopes of killing the messenger and forcing people to once again be subjected to the beat of the Marxist drum.

So you have had people from your administration accusing Fox News of being an arm of the GOP, a form of talk radio, or more commentary and therefore not a real news organization like CNN. By painting Fox as an opinion piece, you are hoping people will dismiss them as rhetoric. Your tactics have had the opposite effect. Fox’s ratings have skyrocketed and continue to climb. Continue on your course if you will. The more you attack Fox News, the more people listen to them. For a man who was trumped up as being intelligent your common sense is lacking.

Talk radio is also under attack by you and your people. Your efforts to reinstate the so called Fairness Doctrine under a different name is an effort to silence those like Rush Limbaugh by limiting the number of conservative voices allowed on the airwaves if not eradicating them completely. You state that there aren’t enough liberal voices on talk radio and that it’s just unfair. Well, Mr. President, that is how the free market works. People tune into talk radio for the conservative viewpoint and the bits of news they cannot find anywhere else. Why would people wish to listen to whiny liberals on talk radio when they can listen to them all day on every street corner and when they are forced to listen to the likes of you, Pelosi, and Reid every night on ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC?

There are other targets in your sights. Those individuals who oppose you and have begun questioning you and your policies. You and your ilk dismissed the Tea Party goers as ignorant, racist, homophobic rednecks acting in accordance with Fox News, talk radio, and the GOP. Naturally you have no evidence to back up your claims. The Tea Party participants are average folk who are tired of being lied to, tired of being used by people like you, and tired of the government doing whatever it pleases with no regard for the health of the country and the liberties it is charged to protect. The U.S. Constitution was written to shield people from the government and radical politicians such as you, Mr. President. Quit circumventing it.

Lastly, there are your attempts to control the internet. All of those individual bloggers who question you and report news stories that NBC &c. will not. The internet breathed new life into conservatives allowing them to voice their views and find others who felt and thought as they do. It provided an outlet to escape the hum drum of progressives. They are able to refute the progressive movement which has sickened American since the late 1800s. Mr. President, you have been pushing for legislation that will allow you control over the internet in an attempt to silence the opposition there. (Siezing power over those businesses that conduct commerce over the internet would be an added bonus.) If you silence the bloggers you can isolate them and make conservatives feel alone and fearful of standing against you.

All of these measures are a direct violation of the first amendment. I do not expect a tyrant like you to care about such violations. You have disregarded the U.S. Constitution your entire political career by voting for legislation that expanded government, when you did bother to vote while in the Senate. Marxists, such as yourself, cannot stand dissenting opinion.

Mr. President, you have an insatiable need to be loved, admired, and worshipped the way those school children are being taught to do. So you do what you do best. You attempt to take away people’s rights, rights that are not of man. You take away individual choice by eliminating the free market through imposed regulations.

But be warned, Mr. President. You may win, but it will only be a Pyrrhic victory. History has shown that traitors and tyrants meet bitter ends.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

7/26/2009

Dear Mr. President,

I want to thank you for doing in six months what many liberals failed to do in 70 years. You have successfully turned us into a socialist nation.   (note the sarcasm)

You rushed through the stimulus bill saying that it was imperative in order to stop the recession. You promised us jobs, a tax cut, and a decrease in the cost of living. You told us that the stimulus bill would do all these things. You told us that this bill would keep the unemployment rate from exceeding 8%. It now sits at 9.7% and is well on its way to being 10%. Where are all the jobs you promised us? And do not tell me about the teacher that was spared the pink slip or all of the state and federal jobs that exist to contend with the bureaucracy your bill created. Where are the jobs for the manual laborers? What about the small businesses that have closed their doors? Those are the jobs we need. It appears that the only people that have benefitted from this bill are state and federal employees. The number one beneficiary is the Federal Government.

You promised us fiscal responsibility. In the last six months where have you or your administration demonstrated fiscal responsibility? That Stimulus Bill cost $787 billion dollars. You had to borrow money from China to help pay for it. Clearly, the United States is bankrupt if you are borrowing money to pay for a bill that is supposed to stimulate the economy. How is that being fiscally responsible? What was in that 1,600 page bill? Did you even read it? I think not, considering you rushed it through during your first week as president. You promised no more pork, but how can a bill that it over a 1,000 pages long not have any pork?

In a recent address of yours, you said that the stimulus package was doing exactly what it was designed to do. I thought it was supposed to promote economic growth. Instead we are getting an economic collapse. So if your statement is true, then that means this bill was designed to destroy the economy, create unemployment, and bring fear to the American people.

And now you want us to accept your health care reform bill. You are adamant about getting it passed before the end of the year. Why the rush? What is in this bill that you do not want people to know about? Could it be that you know within a year’s time you will not have the majority you need to pass your agenda? This bill has the pungent smell of dead fish. It can’t be about reform. You are just expanding an already broken system and shoving everyone into it. We have already proven in this country that government run health care does not work. Medicare and Medicaid are two government run health care programs on a limited scale and they are both bankrupt. The people on these programs do not get the care they need because they have to wait for approval from the government.

Why are we following the model of Europe or even Canada when it comes to health care? Their government run systems are failing. People leave those countries and come to the United States for medical care. Are you so arrogant that you believe you can do it better? Are you so stupid that you refuse to learn from the mistakes of others? Do you truly care about the best interest of America, or are you only concerned about what helps Barack Obama? But most importantly, will be subject the very system that you want to put the American people on?

This health care reform bill is too conveniently timed. Most people without health insurance are unemployed. The unemployment rate is dangerously close to 10%. People are frightened that if something happened they won’t get to see a doctor much less be able to pay for it. And here you step in to save the day with another expansive government program. Very, very convenient.

And why so silent on Cap and Trade? I know the bill is being pushed through Congress. Please explain why we need to tax the hell out of businesses in order to offset global warming. The passage of this bill will prove disastrous for this country, especially since we are in a recession. Cap and Trade has never worked in the past in reducing carbon emissions. It did destroy businesses. You passed a stimulus bill to stimulate the economy. Now you want to pass Cap and Trade which is known for destroying the economy. Don’t the two cancel each other out?

Your foreign policy is no better than what you have done domestically. You routinely call America an arrogant nation. You insult your own country overseas mentioning it with disdain. Not once have you defended America. Do you hate your own country so much that you are incapable of talking about the very things that make America great? Not once have you mentioned what we have given the world. The United States feeds most of the world’s population. We are always there to help those that desire freedom from tyranny and oppression. We have defeated some of the worst tyrants in history for the sake of the world.

You are the President of the United States. It is your duty to protect and defend the American people. You have failed to perform such a task. When North Korea vowed to wipe the United States off the map, you said nothing. When Somali pirates took Americans hostage, you waited over a week to finally do something. It was only when people started asking questions that you finally sent in the Navy Seals to free the hostages. You won’t even address the atrocities that are happening in Iran. You have snubbed Israel, our only ally in the Middle East. Instead you shake hands and act all chummy with the likes of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Raul Castro. You derided the Honduran people for defending their country and constitution from a man who tried to declare himself a president for life. Why do you like dictators so much?

You promised us hope and change. Instead of change you brought us more of the same. Instead of hope we have despair. You lied to us, Mr. President. You sold us a bill of goods. You conned the American people into voting for you. You have demonstrated that you are unfit to be the President of the United States.

You are a sniveling little weasel. A man who slithered his way into the Oval Office on false promises and false hope. You have systematically taken over elements of this country that were once in the hands of the private sector, the people. You have systematically usurped the Constitution. You have betrayed the trust of the American people. You have betrayed the U.S. Constitution. You, Sir, are a traitor.

Signed,

Lady Liberty