You won’t hear this from the pulpit, but…
There is a sickness in the White House. It goes to the core. It has been exposed by technology.
What am I talking about?
Not long after taking office, President Obama’s staff set up a new look to the White House web presence. Among the options available on the site was a recurring newsletter from the President. I signed up for the presidential letter.
Why wouldn’t I? I am an American. He is my president. I did not vote for him, but he is my president. I do my best to support him and surely pray for him among all of our leaders from the municipal level to the national level, and yes even for international leaders. They are there because God has ordained this—yes, that includes the nutjobs we keep close tabs on.
But I soon discovered that Obama was not my president. I thought he was. In spite of a gulf of differences, I thought he was my president.
I was not the problem.
The problem is that he divorced me.
I signed up to hear from the president and somehow was included on all sorts of Republican hating subscriber lists.
Here is the sickness in this.
I asked to hear what the President had to say at whatever frequency he chose to promulgate a message. My email address was placed in a subscriber list of those desiring hate mail, mostly at the keystrokes of Michael Sargeant, the Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
If Mr. Sargeant wants to pontificate against Republicans with vitriolic and caustic syntax, that is surely his privilege.
But what sort of sickness says that anyone who wants to hear from the President of the United States must be from the Democratic Party?
Is the president so myopic that he would believe only Democrats would listen to him?
The Republicans are getting a lot of press about being stubborn and resistant. They deserve the ugly press they are getting. I am tired of their identity as politicians when they were elected to be statesmen.
The problem is that the president has beaten them at their own game by making the White House the Palace of Democratic Acrimony.
The American people want an American President.
The people are tired of the bitterness.
Mr. President, if you truly want to be a leader in this troubled time, then be the first to stop the bitterness.
Lead!
Refuse to succumb to the business of sabotage which your party continues to rearm and refuel.
Lead!
Not every American that subscribes to a presidential newsletter wants the two ton of crap that your staff heaps on it.
We want an American President.
We want a president for all Americans.
Why did you divorce those who did not vote for you but still pray for you as our president?
Why did you presume that only those registered as Democrats would look to you for presidential leadership.
President Obama, it is time to break away from the vitriolic strategies of the Democratic Party. If the Republicans continue, they will pay a price in 2012.
If you will not lead this charge back to statesmanship, then who will?
Be the president of all Americans for however many days or years you have remaining.
Lead!
The Post Script…
I have decided not to unsubscribe from the lists I was placed upon. I would like to see if anyone heard this message.
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