Dear Mr. President,
We've got a problem.
What can I say? I may not be terribly educated; I'm not a constitutional, financial, or economic scholar by any means, and my grasp of human rights is more visceral than that of, say, a professor; certainly it is more holistic than a politician's viewpoint. As you may have guessed by now, some things are bothering me, and I feel I need to address what appears to be your lack of ability to move beyond the Status Quo.
Sure, you're better than Bush was before you, but only in in the way that a moth is better than a cockroach or a housefly. The moth is considered less disgusting, and is not associated with crawling all over feces the way roaches and houseflies are, but they are still insects, in the final analysis.
It didn't take you even a year to discard all of your hope and change
in favor of propping up the status quo, in what is probably one of the most
shocking disappointments any politician has ever been to his or her
base. Your healthcare plan is a giveaway to the insurance companies,
auto-workers were required to take pay cuts before we could bail out
their companies while wall-street executives gave up nothing; simply riding high on their bailout
and the Democrats grumble (but don't really do anything) about the huge
CEO bonuses. We are still torturing people who aren't white (I know,
the irony, the irony!) and those who have broken the law (Rove, Cheney,
et al) in the past are given a free pass. (Which means they or others
like them now see that there is no reason not to do it all again.)
It's almost as if you're a Republican; representing the interests of big business over the little people. What campaign promises have you kept?
I know you will cite the health care debate as a kept promise, but tweaking a few of the problems while giving the insurance companies what they want is not reform. Looking at the millions who don't have health-insurance, and simply mandating that they go get some is just a bone-headed, Republican "solution" to that problem.
And now Afghanistan.
How is perpetual war going to solve the problem of Muslim extremism? It is Conservative-style foreign policy that gives rise to this extremism, and your foreign policy as applies to the Middle East has been so very Conservative.
Mr. Obama, it's not enough to run on a progressive platform of change. In order to be thought of as progressive, you have to actually govern progressively. You must recognize that all of us- not just the mega-rich- are entitled to human rights; a fair and balanced justice system, and all the other good stuff that separates the United States of America from Third-World countries and/or class-driven monarchies.
Mr. Obama, you appear to have embraced every single conservative ideal that a Democrat is supposed to be against. "Hope and change?"
More like "Shock and Awe."
-Signed, a troubled moth supporter
We've got a problem.
What can I say? I may not be terribly educated; I'm not a constitutional, financial, or economic scholar by any means, and my grasp of human rights is more visceral than that of, say, a professor; certainly it is more holistic than a politician's viewpoint. As you may have guessed by now, some things are bothering me, and I feel I need to address what appears to be your lack of ability to move beyond the Status Quo.
Sure, you're better than Bush was before you, but only in in the way that a moth is better than a cockroach or a housefly. The moth is considered less disgusting, and is not associated with crawling all over feces the way roaches and houseflies are, but they are still insects, in the final analysis.
It's almost as if you're a Republican; representing the interests of big business over the little people. What campaign promises have you kept?
I know you will cite the health care debate as a kept promise, but tweaking a few of the problems while giving the insurance companies what they want is not reform. Looking at the millions who don't have health-insurance, and simply mandating that they go get some is just a bone-headed, Republican "solution" to that problem.
And now Afghanistan.
How is perpetual war going to solve the problem of Muslim extremism? It is Conservative-style foreign policy that gives rise to this extremism, and your foreign policy as applies to the Middle East has been so very Conservative.
Mr. Obama, it's not enough to run on a progressive platform of change. In order to be thought of as progressive, you have to actually govern progressively. You must recognize that all of us- not just the mega-rich- are entitled to human rights; a fair and balanced justice system, and all the other good stuff that separates the United States of America from Third-World countries and/or class-driven monarchies.
Mr. Obama, you appear to have embraced every single conservative ideal that a Democrat is supposed to be against. "Hope and change?"
More like "Shock and Awe."
-Signed, a troubled moth supporter
