Dear Mr. President:
Have you seen your latest approval ratings? According to the Rasmussen Reports, your approval rating is: “24% strongly approve” of you and your job while “41% strongly disapprove” of your job (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll). This report came out on June 15th, 2010 and it claims that the gulf oil spill has had no affect on your approval ratings. Did you know that President Bush had around a 63% approval rating around the same time during his first term!? (http://www.gallup.com/poll/113641/despite-recent-lows-bush-approval-average-midrange.aspx). Mr. Obama, wasn’t the person you blamed everything for former President George W. Bush? I thought so. Currently, President Bush has a higher approval rating than you do.
Mr. President, do you remember Hurricane Katrina in 2005? I literally destroyed the same region as the current gulf oil spill is destroying. Let me ask you another question: Do you remember your fellow Democrats and Liberal friends blaming Bush for the hurricane? Do you remember Kane West saying “Bush hates Black people” after the hurricane struck. I want to know, sir, why we do not hear that you have caused the oil spill or why we have not heard that you hate the people of Louisiana. Oh, but if we ever heard any of that you and your main-stream media friends we blow that off and say something like: “These people are just right-wing racist fascists’.” A bit of a double-standard, is it not? You can dish it out but you can’t take some criticism.
President Obama, this letter to you is filled with criticism and a different perspective. I hope it sheds some light, but why would you ever listen to a concerned citizen?
Like your Chief of Staff said: “Don’t let a crisis go to waste” you have continued to take that advice; except you are going about it wrong! You have been wrong with the mass spending through bailouts (along with President Bush) and stimulus packages filled with earmarks; you have been wrong in shoving cap and trade down our throats which has only raised taxes and will continue too; you have been wrong on shoving healthcare down our throats and NOT listening to the majority of Americans; you have been wrong about the boarder and Arizona’s immigration law; and you have been wrong on the gulf oil spill and putting a moratorium on deep water drilling. That is quite a long list.
Did you not promise to get us out of this recession and create jobs? May I ask where they are? No, temporary Census jobs do not count, because they are temporary. Did you not promise to not raise taxes? So where is the money coming from to pay for all of your “economy saving” legislation? I didn’t realize that money grows on trees and it is okay to continue to print more money. I think I read somewhere, and I am sure your top economists have read also, that printing more and more money leads to inflation. Maybe it is time to start listening to your “experts.”
I realize it is a good thing to have “experts” on many subjects that can brief you on whatever topic is relevant for the day. Wouldn’t you think that sometimes it would be a good thing to not take every challenge personally? For instance, did you honestly have to get involved in a dispute between a cop and a Harvard professor? Do you have to claim responsibility for everything that needs to get done and accomplished? No. It is impossible for one man, no matter how powerful, to get every little thing done. This is why you have failed as the chief executive; you have no experience in how to govern.
The oil spill has now gone on for over 2 months. I understand that it is a catastrophe and one cannot clean it up immediately but the people on the gulf coast are suffering economically. It is not BP’s fault that it took you over 50 days to meet with them, it is not BP’s fault that your administration has refused help from other nations, and it is not BP’s fault that you have decided to put a 6-month moratorium ban on off-shore drilling. This was your one opportunity to show that you know how to govern and you messed it up. However, the American people know exactly what you and your administration are up to. We understand that you are against off-shore drilling and we strongly believe the reason you have allowed this to go on for longer that it should have was because you want more criticism and more reasons to not drill for oil. Do you not understand how many people are affected by your decision? I thought you wanted to help create and save jobs? You are obviously not doing what you promised. Wouldn’t you think that if you go through with this ban that you should start creating more bans for other catastrophes? For instance, the next time there is a plane crash maybe you should put a 6-month moratorium on airlines. Your logic makes no sense.
I am also not too sure on why you think you can force BP to pay not only for the oil spill but compensate all of those affected by it too. Last time I checked you have a law degree and you should be the first to know that the Constitution clearly states that the government cannot take over something private without due process of law. There has been no legislation saying that BP has to pay people for this problem so where do you get the authority to “make them” do this?
I have a question for you: is your continued support of the ban of off-shore drilling just a distraction for the American people? Your approval ratings keep on dropping and you realize you need to gain political confidence again. You seem to be losing your confidence and you seem to not fully understand what is going on. Maybe this is a sign for you to not take everything so personal. Maybe you should allow those countries that want to help clean up the oil spill help! Maybe you should allow your experts to advise you like they are supposed to.
I hope as the days pass and the gulf continues not to be cleaned that more and more people realize that you have no executive governing experience. I also hope that this oil spill does eventually get cleaned up and the people and economies affected by it return to normal. I hope that another oil rig explosion never happens (even though that is unlikely); I hope that we continue to support off-shore drilling; and I hope we figure out why this happened.
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