Who are you, Mr. President?

Dear Mr. President,

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?