EDMOND — An open letter to Mr. Obama:
You are the president of the United States, but you do not represent me. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas is evidence you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America. You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America. You are responsible to the citizens of the United States. You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent your apologizing to the world saying we Americans are arrogant. If we did not care about others, why would we sacrifice lives and monies to fight World War I and II? Why would we spend monies on recovery plans, like the Marshall Plan? Where is your knowledge of our history?
You tell a Muslim country the United States does not consider itself a Christian country. If you knew your history, you would know our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution is based on Judeo-Christian ethics. This is our heritage. Where is your knowledge of that?
When you bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, you insulted me and every other American. As President of the United States, you are not to bow down to anyone, much less a Saudi king! Great Britain is one of our oldest and best allies; and when visiting there, you and Michelle showed your ignorance of protocol and showed them disrespect with inappropriate gifts.
You have time to visit a mosque in Turkey, but you can’t find time to visit the cemeteries in Europe where our fallen heroes are buried. Were you aware these men and women gave their lives so you have the freedom to play the idiot?
You and your administration have convinced me you are void of common sense as well as moral, ethical and intellectual integrity. You protect the unions and spit in the face of investors. You put a man in charge of the IRS who couldn’t understand the need to pay his own taxes. There are real thieves in all of this: Dodd, Frank, Raines and the list goes on and on.
You expect individuals to “tighten belts” while you spend $300,000 (plus) to go to Afton, Mo., for an hour to have a stage on which to make fun of the “tea baggers.” You again spend $300,000 for a flyover of New York. As we “tighten our belts,” U.S. House staffers get bonuses. Lawmakers jet home on weekends at taxpayer expense. Lawmakers vote themselves pay raises. Fannie, Freddie, and the AIG have “tightened my belt” beyond my silent endurance. All of this represents “Tax Without Representation.” Isn’t that what the Boston Tea Party was about?
According to some in the media, I would be a redneck and a racist. I am neither. I am a thinking taxpayer and voter. I understand the economics of “income and expenses.” I understand moral responsibility. I do not want the Constitution destroyed. I don’t want a Supreme Court judge whose qualifications are simply “empathy.”
Just about everything you do and say is personally offensive to everything I believe in.
As an old woman, I have enjoyed great freedoms in my lifetime. And, I will do everything in my power to stop you from stealing more from me and from robbing my children and grandchildren! Paul Revere — if he were here — would already have alerted the public of the political coup in progress against private industry and free enterprise!
Lee V. Rose
Cushing
LEE V. ROSE is a retired professor from the College of Business at the University of Central Oklahoma.
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