Lou Pritchett's letter to the president. (aka an executive message to the executive)

Dear President Obama: 

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after 24 months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

[that's right, "nothing"; but keep reading anyway]

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

[lawyers and best-selling authors are poor!]

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

[50^th state does not count]

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

[certainly not as well as a Texas oil company]

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

[the Iraqis will greet us as liberators!]

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

[no ‘class’... he'll never be President of England]

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

[I hate those Americans who hate Americans.]

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

[no letting the black guy talk to the Mexicans!]

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

[€ = bad]

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

[primum non nocere. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? in vino veritas??]

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

[just like that redneck Pickens]

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

[I like gold. mmmmm…. golden eggs.]

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

[unconditional taxpayer money for all the banks!]

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

[ah, the Bush-era surpluses…]

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

[who would have thunk  there were two kinds of muslims in Iraq?]

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

[which is omnious]

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

[9/11! 9/11!]

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

[fat-drug-addict-who-fucks-third-world-hookers, wanker, douchebag, freakazoid.  Demons to a man.]

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

[be a decider not a controller]

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

[obama is going to revoke term limits!]

Lou Pritchett

[Lou in Hawaii doing his due diligence on Obama's suspicious school years]

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America's true living legends [sic]- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

["partnering" sounds audacious, but the tattoos are a bitch.]

Comments

[PoliticoJoe]

You're an idiot. Is that why you defend our President? If ignorance is bliss then you must be the happiest man alive.

[jkas]

another soap salesman? Jeebus you guys are omnipresent...

[cahnaz]

If Pritchett is a leading management guru then that goes a long way to explaining the poor stewardship of the nations economy by our business leaders. Management failures everywhere you look, sucking up bailout dollars, blaming all else except their own shortcomings. What, stale, failed thinking he exhibits. Good annotation to his bonehead letter points.

[low budget dave]

Obama doesn't listen to other points of view? Good Ghod Almighty on a stick. If he spent any more time listening to nitwits who disagree with him, he would have to get French citizenship.

If we could mix Obama's intellect with George Bush's "f- all you" attitude, then maybe we could get some s- done around here.

[EB]

Spot on Lou, SPOT ON!

[Ronaldo]

You may not like corporate America and their "golden eggs", but you most certainly do enjoy their benefits. Look around at the rest of the world. We've got it made here in the US, much because of a free market that was for the most part uncontrolled by the government. It may not have been perfect, but what system in this world is? It was, however, a better system than the one we're going to get IF Obama and his "beleivers" get their way. Don't believe me? Look at Europe and other county's whose governments have a heavy hand in business, the people are not prosperous nor are they allowed to speak their minds.

[Chris]

Ronaldo,

You may wish to actually travel outside the US and see the European countries. All of the countries in the European Union are both free (yup, they get to speak their minds) and market oriented. They may have heavier taxes but they also have better healthcare and they are prosperous. Seriously, get a passport and travel a little.

[me]

[I hate those Americans who hate Americans.] ROTFL :)

[jmfo]

I agree with Lou. And YOU are a snot nose, kool-aid drinking, nit wit! I am very concerned about the way our country is going and mostly concerned for my kid's future in it.

[Jon H]

"You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations."

It must have been soo easy to take Proctor & Gamble to the cleaners when this tool was in charge of cutting deals.

[MJ]

What is frightening to me is the opening sentence: that no other President scared him?? Then he follows up with a lot of erroneous statements. But hey, he was a P & G exec (my grandfather set them up in Cuba a zillion years ago, lovely company...gag) - of course he is scared. I hope he's scared as hell, for the right reasons, because, despite the salivating Lou and Limbaugh idiots, he has reasons to be scared, the party is over for now, Lou! Wash your undergarments and hide in your basement.

[jkas]

and let's just put this little business canard about political parties and the economy to rest:

S&P return for Clinton: almost 200%
S&P return for Bush II: -40%
S&P return for Obama: +26% (+126% annualized)

I'm not carrying any water for Obama and it's not clear yet whether he'll be a successful president, but one thing is beyond question - so far he has played a bad hand well.

[BenK]

This guy Lou is about as smart as Joe the Plumber. The Republicans are having a hell of a time finding an average Joe that knows what the hell is going on outside of his little box. Oh but that is the party that gave us two Bush's obsessed with taking control over the middle East for democracy (or was that oil)?

[Tim]

My friend penned a revision to this letter, what he really meant to say:

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. I don’t think I know anything about you despite your years of public exposure because I don’t understand black people

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. It seems you may have actually earned your way through school with scholarships and hard work and I don’t trust anyone who can’t be bought

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. By American I mean that you aren’t white and so you can’t be trusted.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. I realize that most presidents have never run a company but it bothers me more in your case because you don’t seem to understand that this nation is actually run by corporations, not by people.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core. Once again, I know that the office of the president is a civilian post but I’m trying to change that so that our nation is directly run by the military.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others. You should have learned to stay in your place by now. Perhaps you could learn something of humility from President Bush who still can’t name one mistake he made as president.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. By aligned with, I mean that you sat on committees with them or lived in the same neighborhood with them. I realize that nobody has been able to produce a single document that indicates that you hold any extremist positions, but your willingness to listen to others and to treat them with respect is positively un-American.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad. You actually have the gall to admit that America isn’t perfect and that we haven’t always used our power wisely. You treat other world leaders as if they actually have some good ideas. This is clearly misguided.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. The fact that most European nations have better educational systems, better healthcare, lower poverty levels, and lower infant mortality rates is not the issue here. We are America and we do things OUR way!

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. Accessible medical care is NOT a right. It’s a privilege. It should always remain within the supply and demand system so that only the rich can access the best care.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. Everyone knows that global warning will only really hurt the poor countries. It doesn’t matter if our energy habits make it impossible for the rest of the world to grow and flourish. Country first!

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world. First we lose slavery, the institution that built the wealth base in America, and now you want to put limits on capitalism. What next, are you going to tell us that we’re supposed to care that the standard of living in many nations is falling.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations. You give them taxpayers’ money and then tell them they’ll have to stop giving out 100 million dollar bonuses to the people who led the banks into ruin. That’s just insane.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. Just because there wasn’t a single presidential veto during the first 6 years of president Bush’s time in office does not mean that the GOP-led congress wasn’t challenging the president.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. The fact that you have several Republicans in your cabinet doesn’t mean anything. The only way I’ll know you’re listening to the GOP leaders is if you do exactly what they tell you to do.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. I realize that this is one of the dumbest things anyone has ever written but I was running out of things to be “scared” about.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do. And by the media, I mean MSNBC. I am patiently waiting for the entire world-wide media to see you the way I see you and to attack everything you say and do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. Demonizing should be done exclusively by the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Reillys, and Becks. You should challenge yourself to treat these people with the same respect and dignity that they offer to you.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. I actually have no idea what I mean by this but it sounds indicting.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. I’m afraid that you will have led the country out of the recession, ended the wars, provided healthcare for everyone, and launched a new “green” economy by that point and then I’ll just sound like an idiot.

Lou Pritchett

[Oregonlad]

So does Soapy really believe that "Roundlady" Limbaugh speaks for anyone other than knuckle dragging mouth breathers? I don't.

[Not easily scared]

An Open Letter to Lou Pritchett:

Dear Mr. Pritchett:

You don't scare me, because after eight long years of this type of nonsense from those at your end of the political spectrum trying their best to 'scare' me and everyone else in the world, most thinking people are now immune to your tactics of fear and misinformation.

You don't scare me, because people who read newspapers instead of getting their information from Fox 'News' and diatribes like yours, understand that the fraudulent and irresponsible 'scaring' of Americans is what led to the debacle in Iraq, the deaths of thousands of Americans and untold damage to our country, and to the subversion of the United States Constitution by the last administration, which used similar methods to strike fear here at home to bypass the judiciary and engage in warrantless searches and spying on American citizens, authorize torture of prisoners and hold others without charges or access to lawyers or courts. Due process of law was just another victim of the big scare.

You don't scare me, because in 2009, with the experience of the last administration running this country into the worst economic meltdown since 1929, your Chicken Little strategy is only playing to a very small crowd of lemmings who, like the caged birds trained to push the button for a treat, will automatically forward copies of your letter without really questioning the merits of your vacuous allegations.

You don't scare me, because even though you concede right up front in your ridiculous letter that you "know nothing about" President Obama, you then proceed to vilify him in a series of pronouncements about what you think he thinks and what you think his intentions are, as if you do in fact know something about him.

You don't scare me, because although you identify yourself as the 'foremost leader in change management,' 'a true living legend' and 'an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers,' for some reason as of June 17, 2009 you don't even have a bio in Wikipedia. In fact, your name is not listed anywhere in the Wikipedia database.

(Although I will concede that you travel in some pretty fast company and apparently have been photographed with a celebrity cartoon cat, or at least a guy in a giant Garfield costume. http://www.loupritchett.com/htm/about.htm)

You don't scare me, because you are apparently nothing more than a self-aggrandizing, self-promoter, who rather than engaging in serious, intelligent discourse, has set out to trash the President in exchange for notoriety and potential remuneration, not unlike the "Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks" who are paid large amounts of money to trash the President and everything he does every day, (and whom you, ironically, claim the President is trying to 'demonize').

You don't scare me, because like so many others who write to newspapers and rant on AM talk radio every day, rather than engaging in intelligent, substantive discourse to advance your political agenda, you are instead compelled to resort to defamatory ad hominem attacks, relying primarily upon jingoistic demagoguery, innuendo and falsehoods. You of all people, as a former soap salesman and sales development professional, should realize that's a dead giveaway that you really have no confidence in the merits of your arguments. It is also thought by many to be the main reason why the Republican Party is presently in disarray.

You don't scare me, because your statements about Mr. Obama such as 'culturally you are not an American,' are so ridiculous as to make people wonder how anyone could take anything you say seriously. Similar lame attempts to make President Obama out to be some sort of "Manchurian Candidate" were soundly rejected by voters last November. But please continue. It only exposes more of your ignorance.

You don't scare me, because although it's very easy to say things like "you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others," when you make such simple-minded arguments, they sound more like a third-grader calling names on the playground than a rational, logical and cohesive statement of your concerns. But I guess your are assuming that is the mentality of the only potential audience you have left. In retrospect, our last president was not exactly known for his humility or class either, nor for his business acumen or military service, (not to mention accepting blame for anything... ever), yet I would suspect it is highly unlikely that you complained to the New York Times about it.

Finally, Mr. Pritchett, you don't scare me, because when you make really goofy statements about Mr. Obama like "you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient," people who have not already hit the delete button will either laugh or smile, shake their heads and say, "If this 'living legend' is as smart as he thinks he is, why can't he come up with something better than this drivel?"


An American Who is Not Easily Scared

[Toney]

I voted for Obama it seemed like the best idea at the time.I had some concerns but at the time I felt he was the best man on the stump.
Lately I too am becoming afraid.
What I see is a powerful group inside and outside the Obama administration who's goal is to ruin and destroy any and everyone that dares to question or oppose them.
I see a very effective and united media effort to sell the Obama agenda to the public at every turn.
I see normal everyday people being outcast and demonized by their fellow citizens who dare to show anything but their complete blind support for anything the Obama white house does.
I see too much similarities to the beginnings of what turned out to be oppressive Totalitarian democracy where only on the face it the people are free.
I see many other early supporters of Obama now waking up with regret.
I would not be shocked if people started wearing colored armbands that show his or her support for this group or that group in the days to come.
And that makes me very AFRAID!!!

I see (from my own personal interactions with) Obama supporters as very mean,vicious,Hateful and non-inclusive towards any person or group who's ideals are not in complete support of their own.

I see that once again the people becoming polarized but this time driven by the energy of hate and anger..and that too makes me very Afraid.

No one here is talking about policy.Instead, everyone is puts their energy into who is the "smarter person" or "better human" or what is the better "party".Thats what we have all quietly been conditioned to do.

Many of us voted for change.We all should have demanded to know before hand just what that change would be.

In reality what we have now is not better than what we had before.There has only been a shift or power and money is all.

The only real difference is that what we have now looks a hell of a lot better on TV!

--OK,,go ahead and attack ME now...

[Joe Weber]

The fascists are running scared. This "open letter" from one of them is appropriately rebutted by my friend Terry Coppage aka Bartcop of Bartcop.com. While Iranians fight in the streets for democracy, many American sit stuffing their faces, attacking a man who has been President all of 5 months. -JFW

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

Pure racist horseshit, delivered without foundation or a shred of reason or logic.
What he means in plain English is, "Niggers truly scare me."

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

Why don't you try to learn something about him because he's not coming to your door to explain himself.
Funny, you had no problem with Bush - is it because he's white?

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education
and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

Dude, your ignorance is impossible to contain or quantify.
How is it Obama's fault that you can't explain why you're clueless?
Hint: Best-selling authors make good money.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up
in America and culturally you are not an American.

Bush grew up exploding frogs with rectally-inserted firecrackers
and you didn't mind him wrecking the economy and lying us into a war.
Admit it - go ahead, "I'm a clueless racist fuck."

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare so easily - are you sure you're not a senate Democrat?

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

At least he didn't sign up in the elite, rich boy's champagne squad and then go AWOL.
You can play the scared victim until the cows come home but your biggest problem
is your failure to compare Obama to other presidents.
"You scare me this way and you scare me that way."
Boo Hoo - Poor you. Grow the fuck up.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

Actually the opposite is true.
Obama takes shit from people like me because he does NOT assign blame where it belongs.
He's too polite for my tastes, but for an asshole like you, he scores a zero on every test.
Bush was handed peace and prosperity and he handed Obama war, recession and doom. .

If you were an honest man (Should I bother to finish this sentence?) you'd pick your shots
but instead, you use the Limbaugh-shotgun approach and shoot anything and everything that moves.

What's next? "You scare me because you're so tall?"

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists
who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

Pure racist horseshit.
Those "radical extremists" that scare you so much are American voters.
It hurts when 75% of America disagrees with you, doesn't it?.
If democracy scares you, there are lots of other countries you can flee to.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

Bush was a pirate and a thug and a rapist and a torturer the whole world needed to hear Obama apologize for his crimes..
If you like Bush so much, run Jeb in 2012 and see how many states you win.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country
where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

Again - horseshit.
Bush's idea of no-rules, no-oversight, runaway capitalism bankrupted America.
The government stepped in to save us - remember?
If you want American banks closed and the Big Three shut down, just say so.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

Only a rich, Republican prick would enjoy the health care fuck-up we currently have.
When Clinton tried to fix it, right-wing reactionaries like yourself screamed,
"You can't fix that - it's one seventh of our economy."
Now it's one fifth - and you still don't want it fixed?

You're an old fart - you'll be dead soon, but what about the rest of us?
We can't survive one of every three dollars going to health care..
What are you - fucking stupid or something?

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

Yeah, only an idiot wants cheaper, cleaner energy that's renewable.
Meanwhile Prince William Sound still stinks from the Exxon Valdez
and we have over 120,000 troops risking their lives for cheaper gasoline.
Why use wind power when there are still-empty graves at Arlington?

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg
which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

ha ha
You mean the goose that needed to borrow multi-trillions of dollars to survive?
As a braindead retiree, who do you think guarantees your pension?
Hint: It's not some mythical golden goose - it's the federal government that you hate so much.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You mean the banks and corporations that came to washington begging for a bailout?
What would your bitch be if Obama bailed them out with no conditions attached?

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you
on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

Again, the opposite is true.
Obama's party stabs him in the back on a regular basis.

...and blow me on the "wild and irresponsible spending proposals."
Obama wouldn't have to spend that money if Bush hadn't broken the entire world.
The last president to balance the budget was Democrat, remember?

...and blow me on the "your own party shrinks from challenging you."
We got in this mess because the GOP went with every failed idea your Monkey had.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

ha ha
We get this horseshit from a Bush lover?
And I'll send you a dollar if you can name an intelligent Republican.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

Pure racist horseshit.designed for fellow handjobs hooked on the vulgar Pigboy's lies.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

"The media" as in FOX News or the New York Whore Times?
Or the Washington Whore Post or the Moonie Times?
Did Obama lie us into a war with the help of the Democrat-loving media?
Have you been living in the United Sates the last 18 years?

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys,
O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

If any of that crew has a decent idea why don't they run for office? The reason is they can make
millions of dollars a year by spewing hateful bile that ignorant shits like you eat with a Texas-sized spoon.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Pure racist horseshit.
All you know is "Niggers scare me" and that's all we hear from you.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett

Then move the fuck away - go to another country because the voters decided that they'd had enough
of the crap you and the crooked Bush bastards illegally shoved down our throats.

Note: Lou Pritchett is a former VP of Procter & Gamble before his retirement in 1989.
Pritchett confirmed that is the author of the idiotic "open letter.".

Currently: He's a racist scumbag who can't stand the thought that "one of them"
was chosen by the voters to correct the massive Bush-era disasters.

[jkas]

I'd be surprised if Pritchett is a racist; he's just a conservative conspiracy theorist who needs to get outside more.

[Jicky]

Response to "Not Easily Scared".
Your letter is brilliant, right on target well written. This ex-soap exec does nothing more than encapsulate ALL of the various and assorted idiot attacks that have already been circulated around the net any number of times. The letter is nothing but another fear/scare/hate mail attack that anti-Obama people live for. It matters not the substance, what matters is how many morons they can reach with it. Ex-Soap indicts himself when he refers to Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck. That pretty much tells the tale.

[Jicky]

To Joe Weber--your response to the "ex-soapster's" scare letter was certainly an original read. Actually, all the responses you've given to each of the items he writes that "scares him" are accurate rebuttals with obscenity thrown in for emphasis which is somewhat humorous!! Why not--the letter he wrote is an obscenity in itself, with zero humor! I salute your rebuttal!! WAY TO GO!!!!!!

[Jerry]

Dear Lou

You are the most recent in a long line of hypocritical corpratist racists I have encountered in my 55 years on earth. Unlike some of the others you don't scare me.

You don't scare me because you are an open book. Easily read and understood.

You don't scare me because even though you have benefitted your whole life from government subsidized public education, government subsidized military, fire and police protection, government susidized highway systems, government subsidized postal services and many other government services - you have joined the legions of hypocritical anti-government propagandists.

You don't scare me because you are the typical self-centered racist who sees American and America only as a reflection of himself.

You don't scare me because you make your living not producing anything of relevant importance but have joined the legions of pro-corporate bloviators like Hannity and Limbaugh and the audience for your ilk is fast decreasing.

You don't scare me because you, as other un-educated people, don't understand that we are a civilian run government and while military service to our nation may be laudable - it is no more honorable than service in any other way (teachers, police...etc).

You don't scare me because you sit in relative luxury while millions go without and denegrate their efforts at rising up from poverty through honest efforts by NEVER lending a hand and blasting our collective (government) efforts to do so.

You don't scare me because it's not so much that you don't have class - it's that you don't even know what it means to have class or character or humility or compassion.

You don't scare me because the radical right wing element you have associated yourself with is a vast minority of our nation and will eventually be purged entirely from our community simply by shining a light on the rocks you dwell under.

You don't scare me because the America: love-it-or-leave-it philosophy you espouse is as irrelevant, misguided an myopic as any we have collectively thrown onto the dustheap of history.

You don't scare me because your supply-side philosophy has (again) been shown to be false by our present economic tragedy cause by laissez-fair policies and that greed is not good and, in fact, only leads to the rich getting richer and the middle class disappearing.

You don't scare me because of people like you we will finally be able to reign-in the corporate pirates who have taken over our government.

You don't scare me because corporatists like you are quickly going the way of the dinosaurs. No longer will the greed of private interests be able to take precedent over the public good.

You don't scare me because through all your hypocritical blustering about a "government controlled" health care system I know you have family and close friends who have benefitted from Medicare or the VA system - both very efficient government controlled healthcare systems.

You don't scare me because with all your wealth and pro oil company stance - you and your childrens' children will have to breathe the same oil-polluted air and drink the same oil polluted water as the rest of us.

You don't scare me because like many un-educated people you seem ignorant of the fact that the reason we became a great nation was due to a tightly regulated business class - not by letting them run roughshod over our communities. Corporations are given license by The People to do business in America to benefit The People. If they don't - they should be shut down.

You don't scare me because your lame attempts at rewriting history will never obfuscate the truth that the strength of America comes from it's citizens acting collectively through its democratically elected government - not any boardroom who hold allegience to only profit.

You don't scare me because you cannot intellectually or morally argue that we are NOT our brother's keepers.

You don't scare me because you align yourself with multi-national pro-corporate anti-American forces. And, like other terrorists set on the destruction of our nation - you will be stopped. Through the one weapon that you cannot own - DEMOCRACY!

[lou]

Good grief!!!!!

[Austin Peterson]

The people who scare me the most are people that trust the President & the Congress to do the right thing. Especially when the President & Congress are on the same side of the isle. Especially when the President makes dead line demands on the Congress to pass his legislation without reading it and debating it. I am scared of any Congress & President that have a desire to steam roll the American people with deceit & lies. This is by no means that We The People have been lied to by our Presidents & Congress. The three branches of the government are supposed to bring balance to our being governed. The Supreme Court is not likely ever to get involved in the legitimacy, (from the Latin word legitimare, to make lawful)of the laws this President & Congress crank out like defective American cars.

[VERITY LANE]

ARE YOU SERIOUS? THIS IS TOTAL CRAP, ENGINEERED BY A RIGHT WING LACKY, WHO WORKS FOR ONE OF THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD.

HERES A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE SPREADING THIS SHIT:

DOES OBAMA HAVE TIES TO THE BIN LADEN FAMILY? HAS HE DONE BUSINESS WITH SO CALLED TERRORISTS? HAS OBAMA GIVEN NERVE GAS TO DICTATORS TO USE ON IRAN? DID OBAMA ATTACK A COUNTRY THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911? IS OBAMA GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES? DID OBAMA USE HIS FAMILY'S POWER AND INFLUENCE TO AVOID GOING TO VIETNAM? DID OBAMA INSTIGATE A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS WIRE TAPPING ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC? DID OBAMA ALLOW THE 'OUTING' OF A CIA AGENT, VALERIE PLAME, WHO WAS STILL IN THE FIELD AND PUT AT RISK? HAS OBAMA FAILED MISERABLY IN HIS RESPONSE TO A NATIONAL EMERGENCY (NEW ORLEANS)? HAS OBAMA CREATED SECRET CIA 'HIT SQUADS' TO ILLEGALLY ELIMINATE SO CALLED THREATS?

I COULD GO ON FOR HOURS, BUT I'LL FINISH UP WITH THIS - HAS AMERICA BEEN ATTACKED UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA?

THE ANSWER TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS IS NO, BUT YET ALL THESE THINGS WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY GEORGE BUSH.

DO SOME FACT CHECKING NEXT TIME BEFORE SENDING OUT PROPAGANDA COOKED UP BY RIGHTEST CORPORATE RACISTS.