Posted on 07/26/2010 10:53:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Barry,
I remember hearing you speak for the first time at the Democratic Convention in 2004. I remember being quite impressed by your passion and determination to not only seek change, but to actually play a part in that change. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt at that very moment that I had heard the voice of the future of the Democratic Party and that it would not be long before you would soon become President of these United States.
Truth be told, I did not vote for you (nor did I vote for McCain – to me, not voting is just as valid a statement as voting for the lesser of two evils) because it soon became evident to me that you were not a man of change. I soon came to realize that you were just as spineless and wishy-washy as McCain, but that your lack of political experience served only to hide this fact, whereas McCain had enough of a track record to summarily bury him long before the Palin debacle.
Since taking office, you have done nothing but confirm my suspicions. It is one thing to inherit another President’s problems, but another to allow them to completely define your presidency. You have done just that and, as a result, your presidency has no momentum or direction of its own.
While others may applaud your victorious health care reform, the truth of the matter is that it is a sad, pitiful display of political compromise that will ultimately lead to a more convoluted health care/insurance process than that which already exists. The time it takes to ultimately implement the new system is more than enough time for current insurance companies to find more than enough loopholes with which to continue practices that were the basis for the implementation of the health care reform in the first place.
Most insultingly, your willingness to continue wars that you did not start has led directly to the deaths of thousands of American soldiers. You, Mr. Obama, are President of the United States and, therefore, have the power to pull troops out of any region, but, instead, you have forged onward, simply signing off on plans brought to you by supposed military experts and leaders.
Call me crazy, but I would never expect a military leader to come to me with a plan for extraction. A soldier on the front lines might tell you, yes, we need to get out of Iraq or Afghanistan, but a high-ranking career soldier like a McChrystal or a Petraeus is always going to urge for further maneuvers and only begrudgingly suggest an exit strategy. That you have so willingly buckled to their agendas rather than ordering these subordinates to carry out your strategy is a clear-cut sign of weakness on your part. Where’s your spine, Mr. President?
We have nothing to gain from these wars, Mr. President. Sure, companies with close ties to the last administration certainly have much to gain, but why is this so important to you? Instead of coming in and shaking things up, undoing the many wrongs perpetrated by the previous administration, you have been only too happy to see that they keep right on chugging along.
When the BP debacle took place, I remember a news reporter saying only days after the incident that this was your Katrina. I also remember thinking that, even though I have not been happy with your handling of certain aspects of your presidency, that there was no way that you could f**k up this incident worse than Bush f**ked up during Katrina. Sadly, I was wrong. Very wrong. It has been over two months since oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and more oil per day is pouring into our seas now than it was then. Your inability to take control of the situation speaks to your weakness in a way that nothing else you’ve done (or not done) has only hinted at.
As if your inactivity wasn’t bad enough, you steadfastly declined assistance from dozens of other countries and corporations until the disaster had burst forth so far beyond the breaking point as to be laughable. Then, of course, you changed your mind and are now open to outside assistance, but only after two months of unspeakable damage has been done.
That, Mr. President, is criminal negligence. By standing there and doing nothing while a corporation not only commits a crime of their own negligence (helped along by our own government’s willingness to look the other way in the first place), you have become an accessory. Even as I write this, more oil is gushing into the ocean, more animals are dying, and more American ways of life are severely hampered for an indefinite period.
Why, Mr. President, did you feel the need to run for office in the first place? Was it so that you could play a key role in the paralysis and further weakening of a once-great country in drastic decline or was it because you honestly though you could bring about positive change?
If it was the former, all I can say is “Mission accomplished” and “Job well done, Sir.” If, however, it was the latter that drove you to become President of the United States, then you need to grow a pair, buddy, and start kicking a**. Until then, you are an embarrassment for all who voted for you and who bestowed upon you their faith in the very same American Dream that brought you to prominence.
Those who believed in you did so because they believed you to be someone who recognized the same problems that they did, saw the same wrongs that they saw being committed left and right, and was driven to do something about them. To tell these people now that change is not so easy is to betray them and to go back on every promise you ever made during the campaign. What you have to do, Mr. President, is make things right, even if it means putting an end to “business-as-usual” and disappointing a crony or two. Your responsibility is to the American people, not the corporations or the political system that has created so much of the problem in the first place.
I fully expect you to do nothing, Barry. I also fully expect your tenure in office to be brief and comprised entirely of inherited debacles, with history coming to regard your single term as one of the more embarrassing presidencies in American history. When President Palin takes office in 2012, it will be because you did nothing and, at the same time, did everything to make such a thing possible, just as Bush’s inability to string five words together made it possible for you to gain entry to the office of President.
Prove me wrong, Barry. Prove me wrong.
Sincerely, Darren
Maybe by 2012 Obama will be so discredited that they’ll move up the inauguration to Dec 20th just to be rid of him.
Besides, I think Todd is in training for that Iron Dog race at the end of January, so the 20th might not work out for him. Move it up to December, better for everyone involved.
I know some older people have said that Reagan’s election in 80 made Carter’s term worth it, or almost worth it. I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say that if Palin were to win in 2012 Obama’s term would have been worth it, but it might.
99/98 days until C.P.R.
(Comprehensive Politician Reform)
But Palin is soooooo inexperienced.
obama can not string five words together without a teleprompter! Whats good for the goose is good for the gander
Poor Derwood.
Won’t it be nice when Madame President takes office and gives the okay to investigate these clowns? I can see a whole bunch of pols retiring and hoping she doesn’t come after them.
How sad it must be for leftists when the “one that we’ve been waiting for” turns out to be the “one that we’ve been waiting for that doesn’t have a pair.”
Somebody needs to tell Darren that Barry will read his letter as soon as he gets back from vacation.
When the BP debacle took place, I remember a news reporter saying only days after the incident that this was your Katrina. I also remember thinking that, even though I have not been happy with your handling of certain aspects of your presidency, that there was no way that you could f**k up this incident worse than Bush f**ked up during Katrina. Sadly, I was wrong. Very wrong. It has been over two months since oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and more oil per day is pouring into our seas now than it was then. Your inability to take control of the situation speaks to your weakness in a way that nothing else you’ve done (or not done) has only hinted at.
As if your inactivity wasn’t bad enough, you steadfastly declined assistance from dozens of other countries and corporations until the disaster had burst forth so far beyond the breaking point as to be laughable. Then, of course, you changed your mind and are now open to outside assistance, but only after two months of unspeakable damage has been done.
That, Mr. President, is criminal negligence. By standing there and doing nothing while a corporation not only commits a crime of their own negligence (helped along by our own government’s willingness to look the other way in the first place), you have become an accessory. Even as I write this, more oil is gushing into the ocean, more animals are dying, and more American ways of life are severely hampered for an indefinite period.
What a beautiful letter. It’s like the lamentations of their women. Or metrosexuals. Either way, sweet.
I really don’t care what their complaint with Obama is, so long as they properly vote against ALL Democrats to stop this fiasco.
Hey, what’s the idea stealing my insult, lol?
In other words, “I’m an idiot and didn’t vote in the first place, so I’ll ramble marxist nonsense..”
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
Thanks! That is the exact quote I had in mind, but I didn’t know the whole thing. :)
Thanks again for posting that letter. The sheer, impotent rage of it was beautiful to behold. When Obama loses the metrosexual vote, you know he’s really in trouble.
Palin debacle?
Wow. Obama is alienating even the most deranged moonbats on the left.
Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for her to take office until January 2013....
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