Awesome letter to the president...to bad no one claims writing it

[festus]

An Awesome letter that no one claims credit for according to snopes and urban legend.com...

We need to all send this to the leadership and let them know how we feel


Without further delay............................................. ............................................


THE LETTER TO END ALL LETTERS


April 9, 2009

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

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 that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You don’t show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Your name here

[matthewaynelson]

Well said. Enough said. Now we just need a candidate who will stand unashamedly for the American values that made this country the best. I respect John McCain and his service to our country. BUT, he was NO Ronald Reagan. I voted for McCain (well, more Pallin than McCain), but in all honesty, he was the lesser of two evils.

For the sake of the American way of life we need a candidate who will boldly speak truth, never shying away from fighting tooth and nail for the America we love and cherish! We may not survive one term of this current administration; Americans desperately need to send this guy packing in 2012, let him get back to the only thing he’s qualified to do… being a community organizer.

[HK4U]

That is not a bad idea. Everybody print the letter and sign your name and send it to Obama. Flood the White house.

[Scarecrow]

that is a great letter. hopefully millions of them will be received soon at the white house.

[Bink2]

If I remember correctly this was sent by a teacher. I don't remember where she was from. I will try to find the article I seen on this.

[crystalphoto]

Bink2, you are right.
It was written by:
Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade Teacher
Grandview Elementary School
Hillsboro , MO 63050

She has got it right!

[matthewaynelson]

Thanks for tracking down the original author!

I plan on sending a letter agreeing with Ms Lyday’s sentiments and a copy of her original letter to ALL my governmental officials. That includes my state Reps (both in Florida and Texas), the House Speaker and the President.

I also plan on contacting the school to see if Ms. Lyday still works there. If she does, I will be sending a letter of appreciation to Ms. Lyday for expressing so well her thoughts, and to let her know that there are lots of Americans who agree with her.

[ronwill]

Unfortunately this letter is fiction:

School Teacher's Letter to Obama-Fiction!

snopes.com: Fourth Grade Teacher's Letter to the President

[matthewaynelson]

Fiction or not… it accurately conveys how many Americans feel.

I still plan on using the bulk of this letter as foundation for a letter of my own. The only line in the original letter that needs tweaking is:

I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

I would reword this in a way that communicates my desire to work tirelessly towards insuring Obama is fired by American voters come 2012.

[chroode]

The FBI is going to be knocking on your door. Better be careful what you write.