Dear Mr. President,
I campaigned and voted for you in 2008. I had never been so excited about a candidate since Bobby Kennedy.
I am angered by your weak-kneed cave-in to the Republicans on the tax bill. I am disappointed that you didn’t choose to fight the hypocrites and liars before this late date. Compromise is necessary after the battle is won. You didn’t compromise. You refused to fight.
I long for the strength of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, the Kennedys, Tip O’Neill and Lyndon Johnson among other great Democrats. While I don’t agree with all the positions they took, they fought and won important battles that changed the country and the world for the better.
I have always resented your appointment of Ken Salazar to Interior and I began to suspect then that you were not the person I voted for.
Sincerely,
Gary Austin
Sums up my feelings exactly. Leaves a bitter taste in the throat.
Well said Gary. I could not agree more! As a one year old I remember clearly my mother crying over the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. This image has always satyed with me; me in a high chair in the kitchen with the TV on and my lovely Italian mother’s face red and crying with pain and terror. I don’t recall much after that.
When OBAMA popped in hope grew in my heart for this pretty cool little planet called Earth to thrive again. To connect to it again, really connect, such as The American Indians did once. But damn it! He got sucked into some personal need to say “Can’t we just all get along?!” I say, NOT YET obviously. We really need a rehaul. We have most certainly lost our way.
All artists must unite and begin to show the world the way back home.
Thanks Gary, my absolute BEST theatre arts teacher-EVER. Big Hug.
La
Well said Gary! I agree!