Letter to Obama, the Authoritarian

8/6/09

Dear Mr. President,

I am a citizen of the United States of America, a long-time tax payer, a semi-retiree, and I would appreciate you showing me respect - even though I disagree with your plan to socialize our health system. It's not that I have a thin skin but I don't have the kind of power of the pulpit that you have and am beginning to fear for my safety when I practice my first amendment right of free speech - and dissent.

Give the opposition some credit for coming up with a better health insurance/benefit plan than the one the Democrats put together and don't care to read. Paul Ryan's plan is better than the House current plan! Why are you so dismissive of it? There's a bit of the 'Authoritarian' in your approach to dissenters and I expected better of someone used to dealing with people.

You are not behaving as though you are president of all the people; you appear to be selectively marginalizing all of us who oppose your policies. Your fellow Democrats in the party headquarters as well as the Democrat leadership in Congress are publicly insulting people just like myself - and worse yet, you seem to be encouraging them by your own sarcastic remarks. You should be showing a little more class as leader of the free world, and stop your public whining about whatever hand you've been dealt.

I will continue to speak out against any of your policies that - in my estimation - are undermining the U.S. Constitution and the liberties it was suppose to guarantee.

It was you who said that you wanted this country on a single payer system and you warned that it would take time to get there, so don't try and tell me that we are lying or making things up to make you and your administration look bad. I don't have a Harvard education but I can read the healthcare bill and I know when I'm being lied to.

I plan to be one of those right-wing protesters who will be bussed to Washington DC on September 12. I really hope you start behaving like one of those freedom-loving Americans most of us admire, and more importantly, start behaving like the president of all Americans, not just the ones who agree with you.

Regards,