an open letter to President Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President,

It's not your fault.
I have been following your career since you ran for Illinois senator and have followed you ever since because you sir are a good man and good men are difficult to find in America these days. I have rooted for you the whole way and when you announced your bid for President, I was ecstatic and excited because I knew that you are a force of real change, change desperately needed in our nation's fabled capitol. And that campaign you ran! By the time you were sworn in I was certain America would be heading for a new Golden Age of civility and bipatisanship that would once again show the world how great we Americans can be.
Reality is a bitch isn't it?
Who would know that the Republicans would put their own selfish ends and their party before the best interests of the nation? Or that they would spread lie after lie about you? Or threaten your life when they brought guns to events you were speaking at? Republicans hate America and her liberties and their poison is killing our country.
Who would have thought that people in your party would be racists smiling to your face while snearing behind your back? Who would have thought that with huge voter turnouts to raise Democrats to power on the promise of change that many in your party would prove turncoats who wanted nothing more than business as usual and campaign contributions from big insurance?

Sure, there's a lot of blame to go around. You yourself made a few mistakes and broke a few promises because the previous (illegitimate) administration had effed things up so bad for America. The bailout was a terrible idea the last (illegitimate) administration thrust upon you and you had to trust that Tim Gaitner (sp?) who is a friend to Wall Street and the same financial institutions that destroyed the economy (thanks to GOP policies). Or keeping Bush era policies alive you said you'd end. Ugh! Really? It is my opinion (and I am mad) that your biggest mistake was not allowing your AG to prosecute the previous administration for its crimes against humanity and this nation.

I know sir. You just wanted to move the nation forward and revive civilized discourse and dialogue. So admirable! But really Mr. President how could you be so naive? The opposition are not civilized. They are violent, hate filled, virulant, abusive, insulting, obstructionist, racists and, like I said above, they don't love America but rather their own pocketbooks and party.
Like I said, it's not your fault.

So now what? A year in and it's time to make some changes.

1) You guys are going to have to get into the mud with the GOP and start fighting back. You are looking like wimps against the bombast the GOP makes. They spread lie after lie and where is the Democratic response? Where are the fighters who get into the face of the GOP? They have no qualms being anti Christian or anti American and you Dems just take it. Time to get rough and slap some faces!

2) Get rid of Lieberman and every other Democrat turncoat that sold out the American people over health care (among other things) because they are killing the Democratic agenda the American people voted for. Why did the Dems lose Massachusetts? Because the voters have watched Democrats gut Ted Kennedy's hope for real health reform in favor of insurance companies. They have also noted that while the Democrats helped out big insurance, they still would force poor Americans to buy insurance under penalty of law. Hello!?!? They don't have insurance because they can't afford it in the 1st damn place! Now they'll be fined or jailed while the big insurance companies laugh their way to the bank, banks which Timmy Gaithner helped get 6 figure bonuses. It isn't rocket science why Dems lost MA in light of this. Oh I'm hearing excuses already from moderate Dems about why you guys lost but the reality is that the voters aren't stupid and know when their government is shafting them. So they shafted you guys back, simple as that.

3) You have a national network of voulenteers and YOU can dictate the agenda to your party. Push harder, energize your base and put your party members on notice. I was a voulenteer for you myself until your party started dropping the ball on health care. Call these turncoats out! Fight them the way you should fight the GOP! They are NOT on your side. Sir, I would voulenteer again if you wanted to whip your party into shape. Besides, that's how the GOP got their agendas through so handily during the Bush era. Their party was unified in the anti American hate and their agenda destroyed the country. The Democrats must be so unified or you WILL lose your House and Senate majorities and your 1st term might be your last because if the GOP takes over Congress your last few years in office may render you a lame duck President (which has been the GOP hope all along).

4) Americans hate the GOP, exploit it! Remind them how 8 years of GOP leadership broke the economy, destroyed the Bill of Rights, passed legislation to repress states rights and personal freedoms. Remind them that it was Bush era deregulation of Wall Street that allows those jackals to exploit Americans while earning their bloated 6 figure bonuses. Americans will remember and will respond (if you get your party back in line).

and 5) and I hate to say it but play the race card. They are racists!!! Time to put it in their faces! Let every Hispanic, Negro, Asiatique and Jew see their venomous hatred of them. The GOP is a white supremicist party that caters to the wealthiest (predominantly White) Americans. Oh sure they have a black chairman but he's a token and the whites in his party correct him often and remind him of his proper place at every opportunity. When America sees the GOPs hate, discrimination and religious intolerance, the GOP will fall utterly.

Sir, no one can blame you (and us who voted for you) for being a pie eyed optimist with high hopes and sincere heart. Your desire to serve your country and help fix what the GOP broke marks you as a great man on the level of MLK Jr. I guess we're all a little disappointed or disillusioned now by the harsh reality of the situation. But I believe in you Mr. President and I believe in your cause. I support you 100% and I'm not ready to give up or call it quits. I am still here for you and I'm ready to get back out there and work hard for our cause. We can and will still do this but please sir, please you must stand up. You must look all your foes in the eye, roll up your sleeves and punch them in the nose. Sure, I'm a little loopy and maybe my 5 suggestions are stupid but who knows? Maybe they aren't. I'm with you Mr. President. I think the overwhelming majority of Americans are. Call us to arms and service and let's go and do this!

Sincerely,
Mike Villwock Sr.