Please
listen. The Republicans and Tea
Partiers hate you. They hate you because
you are not one of them. And, I mean you
are not one of them in every way. They hate
you and will never stop hating you, not even where you are dead and cold in
your grave. Not ever.
Their
hatred of you is so deep, so fixed, that they are willing to destroy this
country in their determination to get rid of you. That single-mindedness cannot now alter
course. To do so would mean admitting
error, and that will not happen. Ever.
Your
insistance in trying to get them to work with you has already caused great
damage to us all, in this country and around the world. Continued efforts on your part to change them
is only aiding and abetting the destruction of this nation. You have become the tool of the extreme right,
as well as the not so extreme right that courts them for votes.
Your
actions magnify and accelerate the already rapid decline of the middle class
and utter impoverishment of the poor. We
have a growing third world nation within the borders of this country. You are sacrificing the lives and futures of
the vast majority of Americans in attempting to appease a small group that will
not be appeased.
Twenty
percent of our children go hungry on a daily basis. You are helping those who say that is acceptable. You are saying to the people who hold us all hostage
that you prefer their approval over the welfare of our children. That makes you one of the extremists who stand
in the streets and classrooms across the country, pointing to one in five
children and telling them there is no food for them today and probably not
tomorrow.
And
now you have decided that it is also acceptable for our children to face a
future of greater pollution in our air and water. You are siding with big businesses that want
no fetters in the destructive methods of doing their business. You are saying to our children, and your own,
that their health is of little consequence.
They’ve waited for years, why not a few years more? Making the rich more wealthy is of greater
importance.
What happened, Mr. President? Who are you?
