President Obama You Scare Me Too

Dear President Obama,

I have lived under the authority of 12 presidents, and like all of them, except maybe Eisenhower, you scare me too.

You scare me because you campaigned that you would restore America's image in the eyes of the world, yet over a year into your reign and you have not moved to have Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of that illegally installed cabinet arrested and put on trial for treason. There is no way on Earth that the United States can have any moral stature in the world while these sociopath murderers remain free. No American can feel safe nor even look at their own neighbor without suspicion until these old, white men pay for their crimes against the U.S. Constitution, the American people, and the world.

You scare me because you have done nothing to restore the rights that ALL people are entitled to under our Constitution; you continue the shameful policy of torture and indeterminate, secret detention, and even murder of people who's only crime is that they are foreign.

You scare me because even though you are black you stand up only for the privileged. You worked as a Community Organizer, helping people, yet now you only help those who own corporations, and primarily only those corporations 'too big to fail'.

You scare me because you grew up in a multi-cultural family and traveled the world yet you appear to have no understanding or compassion for ordinary people either at home or abroad. You should have experienced America through the clearer eyes of ordinary people yet you appear to have no insight into how the policies of this government infuriate those we bully and murder and even less desire to educate the American people so those policies can be changed.

You scare me because, like other presidents and leaders without military experience, you send our youth into war, to kill and to be killed without understanding of the terror, the sacrifice, and the irreparable harm killing does to decent people, both those who do the killing and the victims and their loved ones. You have escalated the immoral and illegal attacks on Afghanistan and continue the illegal occupation of Iraq.

You have never run a company so you should have none of the vicious, cutthroat, profit-driven motives of those who have, yet, you have abdicated economic control of the people's economy to the greedy, self-absorbed, amoral cabal of privileged elites who have no interest in the people.

You scare me because even thought the American people elected you to help lead us into a future free of globalized greed and economic destruction you have consistently refused to help cleanse our nation of the rotting, stinking corpse of Capitalism.

Instead of protecting our Constitutional rights you have continued to allow the wealthy to run our country. Rather than control corporate behavior you have resorted to begging and negotiation with them.

You scare me because even though you are a Democrat, a liberal, and NOT Bush you support the expansion of the use of coal and nuclear power to generate electricity and embrace continued oil exploration.
Another Deepwater Horizon, Mr. President?

You scare me a lot because even though you campaigned on it and overwhelmingly, the people want it, you took single-payer health care out of the equation and opted to give that money to the obscenely wealthy owners of insurance companies.

You scare me because you have not heeded the belated admission by President Clinton that NAFTA was a huge mistake that hurt the people of Haiti rather than helped them. Even with that sad admission you have not called for the United States to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.

And finally you scare me because like all Democrats, while furthering the most greedy, the most violent, and the most racist policies you paint smiley faces on the faces of the hungry, the dispossessed, the violated, and the beaten. And we cannot afford the continuation of such acts for another 4 or 8 years.

The time has come, Mr. Obama for the people to rise up and speak out for democracy, the Constitution, and liberty and justice for all.