You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
Senator Barack Hussein Obama truly began running for the presidency of The United States after delivering an enlightened, powerful and revealing keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Party convention.
Obama used the first 314 words of that speech to briefly introduce himself, his background, his family and their backgrounds.
He spoke of his father, his mother, his grandmother and spoke with extreme pride about his grandfather who signed up for duty after Pearl Harbor and "marched across Europe" as part of George S. Patton's army.
It would have taken mere moments of attentive listening to begin to learn about Barack Obama on the evening of July 24, 2004.
I googled "Obama biography" and it returned 4,670,000 hits. If one doesn't know anything about Barack Obama, it can only be because one doesn't want to know anything about Barack Obama.
You scare me because I donot know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
I began to read some of the multitudinous biographies in an attempt to find out just how President Obama paid for his expensive Ivy League education and the letter writer is correct, there isn't an awful lot about how he made those payments.
Then it dawned on me. I began to read biographies of several presidents and their methods of payment for post secondary education aren't exactly crystal clear either. The question, then, becomes, "Why does it bother the letter writer so much because he can't find ledgers documenting this particular president's college payment schedules?"
I did get the following quote from one of the many, many, many biographies:
"With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.
"After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants."
This is more than one would find about many presidents.
You scare me because youdid not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not anAmerican.
