An Open Letter To President Obama

[Jill]

[SIZE=12pt](My head was nodding all through reading this letter!)[/SIZE]

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[SIZE=24pt]AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]By Lou Pritchett[/SIZE]

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Dear President Obama:
 
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
 
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
 
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
 
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
 
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
 
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.
 
You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.
 
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
 
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
 
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
 
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
 
You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
 
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
 
You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.
 
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
 
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
 
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
 
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
 
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
 
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
 
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
 
Lou Pritchett
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Note: Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat. Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated "open letter."

This checks out on Snopes.com -- http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

 

[Charley]

Thanks for posting that...because he is scary!

It is mind boggling to see the debt he has had our country take on in a few months time. I am afraid...he is worse than scary...

 

[Jill]

Thanks for posting that...because he is scary!
It is mind boggling to see the debt he has had our country take on in a few months time. I am afraid...he is worse than scary...

I'm afraid someone will tell him what comes after a trillion

 

[Bassett]

Thanks Jill. I wholeheartedly agree with everything in this letter. He scares the c**p out of a lot of people and I predict it will only get worse. I think ''SOME'' of us predicted this would happen all along. But there are a lot of blind people who disagreed with us.

Good work. Thanks for posting.

 

[Connie P]

 

[AppyLover2]

But....but....he can swat a fly out of the air with his bare hand.

I couldn't believe they showed that on national news.

 

[minimule]

He did an excellent job with this. I've seen a lot of intersting things like this that point out facts that some still choose to completely ignore.

I truly fear for our country.

 

[Gini]

But....but....he can swat a fly out of the air with his bare hand.

I got 2 flys this morning and it didn't make national news!!

 

[loveminis]

This country has run amouk ! Those are the reasons I LIKE him

I'm running away in my flame suit ......

 

[Pepipony]

Oh I agree. Bush ran this country brilliantly. He was the picture of perfection. We were so well off all of his years. No terror attacks at all. No wars. The economy was brilliant. Fuel prices were low. Not to mention we know everything about his past. His service records werent sealed. All of his C.O.s spoke so highly of him. He made sure that there were no , no-bid contracts so that his friends wouldnt make bookoo bucks. He never did any drugs, including cocaine. He never drank to excess, including whisky. Ohhhh to have the ol shrub back.

Hey ya know what? For years we were told that if you didnt support the President, you didnt support the troops. Does that still stand true? Are we all anti-troop now? Or was it , do as I say, not as I NOW do?

 

[hobbyhorse23]

Scared of a lot of things, isn't he?

I seem to recall a story about another man who tilted at wind mills....

Leia

 

[Jill]

I knew a lot of you, and a lot of Americans across the board, share a similar point of view and would appreciate this letter the way I did. And, unfortunately, those of us who already get it (and got it before November) know many others will start to see things as clearly as we already do.

 

[crponies]

I am not in agreement with Obama on many things but there is something in that letter I don't understand. What's so scary about windmills?

 

[Jill]

I am not in agreement with Obama on many things but there is something in that letter I don't understand. What's so scary about windmills?

From the letter, I gather that Lou Pritchett thinks we need to take action to responsibly utilize "our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves" and not look at "windmills" as the answer. I agree with him on this and actually every other point of concern addressed in the letter.

 

[crponies]

Oh, definitely, I agree we need to look at every option when it comes to producing and using energy, to make the use of all our resources.

 

[Cathy_H]

Scares me because if those that can do something to stop this train wreck do NOT apply brakes to Obama's runaway train soon, it WILL BE TOO LATE.............. Media control is coming also!! I'm not saying people should believe everything Glenn Beck, OReilly & Limbaugh say but cross reference what they are telling you to other news sources............ For the record I watch All of the television stations to get everyones spin................Also this health care bit reminds me of the movie Soylent Green....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Seems we older people are consuming too much in health care & spending more of our share of available $$$'s. Heard someone say on tv the other day that health care $$$'s are going to HAVE to be spent more wisely based on quality of life etc. Get the picture???? ......................... Curious here, does anyone know the status of that woman that was crying on tv because "with Obama in office" she will now have someone to pay her bills & take care of her? Wonder if she is like that poor man who is getting some stimulus money & is now worse off because he can't get the food stamps he was getting for food before his gift from Obama. ( one reason to read something before you sign it).

 

[LowriseMinis]

1. Obama's the fifth President I've lived under and he doesn't scare me a bit. Mind you, I wasn't old enough to remember the Reagan years, but they sound a little scary to me.

2. Shows a lack of research. We live in the future, Mr. Pritchett. Five minutes of Googling will turn up a wealth of information. If you choose to believe that the internet is a left-wing media conspiracy and that multiple cross-referenced articles about one person aren't giving you the truth, there's not much else we can do.

3. Scholarships?

4. I'm calling bull on this. Whatever happened to America being the Great Melting Pot? What defines American culture? Who judges what is or isn't American? You? Feels a little too "McCarthy" to me.

5. And we all know every president who's been a businessman has done an excellent job of not running this country's finances into the ground. Oh, wait.

6. There has never been a good president who lacked military experience. Just look at this shameful list of other presidents with no military experience:

* John Adams

* Thomas Jefferson

* John Quincy Adams

* Martin Van Buren

* Grover Cleveland

* William Taft

* Woodrow Wilson

* Warren Harding

* Calvin Coolidge

* Herbert Hoover

* Franklin Roosevelt

* Bill Clinton

7. The last guy was a

, wasn't he? 8. I'm not even going to bother with this one. If you honestly believe a person who would give so much up for his country truly wants to see it fall, there's nothing I can say to change your mind.

9. America's done a few things that we need to apologize for over the last eight years. Let's go back to being a class act. A gentleman doesn't show up at say "Well we're right and you're wrong so deal with it." A gentleman shows up and says "In the past we have made some clear mistakes, and we need to amend those so that we can move forward." Which is what Obama has done.

10. I like how you imply socialism without saying it, Mr. Pritchett. Obama is not a socialist, and I'm sure a lot of those European countries you have in mind don't think of themselves as socialist, either. Interestingly, though, a lot of those same European countries have a higher standard of living than we do.

11. In continuation of the above, almost every other developed first world nation offers it's citizens some form of health care. The system isn't always perfect, but it's almost unfathomable in many of those countries for someone to die due to lack of medical care, or go bankrupt due to medical bills. In addition, no one would be forcing you to use national health care. You can still enjoy the benefits of your private insurance. But those who want to use the national system would have the FREEDOM to make that choice.

12. With the data I've seen, I don't know if it's possible to 'responsibly' capitalize on coal reserves. Shale and oil also carry heavy environmental concerns, whereas wind and solar power are considered much cleaner. But you're right, shame on you Mr. Obama for focusing on cleaner alternatives, which also stand to create thousands of new jobs in the next decade.

13. As mentioned above, our standard of living is considered to lag behind several countries. What we're reeling from now are not Obama's policies, but the result of 8 years of Bush's ideals. Are you going to claim he was a socialist, too?

14. If regulation=extortion, you got me there.

15. ...the reaction of Obama's party is his fault how, exactly?

16. Obama has been praised, repeatedly, for being open to ideas outside of his own and considering opposing viewpoints.

17. This one doesn't even warrant a response, sir.

18. You know, I watch MSNBC for commentary. I don't know how much more liberal you want to get than, say, Rachel Maddow, but she's had plenty of criticism for Obama.

19. How, exactly? What has Obama done to try and silence any of these people?

20. Until Obama declares himself Supreme Emperor of America, I'm just going to shake my head and chuckle at this one.

"Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years."

Mr. Pritchett, come off it. You're painting a picture of a dystopian, apocalyptic future in which a President duly elected by popular vote rules with an iron fist, quashing all dissenting opinion like come kind of comic book inspired metallic overlord. Here's the truth: there's a man in office you disagree with. You may not like him or his policies. It's happened before. Ask half the country how they felt about the last eight years. The truth of the matter is, Obama's just a man. Maybe a powerful one, but not all powerful. Not all seeing, or all knowing, even if you think HE thinks he is. He's obviously not on the side of politics you agree with. This doesn't make him evil. It makes him a political opponent.

But here's the neat thing: You don't like it? Vote in 2010. Vote in 2012. Maybe next time someone will get elected that scares the other side.

And in conclusion, if you really fear one man that much, you have bigger problems than politics.

 

[LowriseMinis]

Scared of a lot of things, isn't he?

I seem to recall a story about another man who tilted at wind mills....
Leia

Hey, at least Don Quixote DID something about his irrational fears!

Personally I've decided to try and live my life as fear-free as possible, and it feels GREAT. Maybe I should give him some pointers?

 

[Pepipony]

What is scary to me is how the first several posters really do not support the troops. I mean, like wow man. After all, 'they' spent years telling us that if we didnt support Bush ( ie The President) then we didnt support the troops. Or just maybe, maybe, its do as I say, not as I do.

 

[Bassett]

I knew a lot of you, and a lot of Americans across the board, share a similar point of view and would appreciate this letter the way I did. And, unfortunately, those of us who already get it (and got it before November) know many others will start to see things as clearly as we already do.

I know a couple of people on here who are so blind they will NEVER get it.

Obama:

. He sure makes me nervous

with the things he's been doing.