Looking for some thoughts...

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

My wife and I are on an email list that includes two cousins and an aunt and uncle. My cousins are sweethearts and always post nice, positive stuff. It is sometimes a bit Jesusy, but it has never bothered my Jewish wife and my ex-catholic self. So, today we get the following email, from someone on the list, who we don't know. The shit in this thing is enough to make me want to shame this fucker in front of the whole family, but I don't want to necessarily start a flame war. Read on...

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 a warded $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,

Every real American

P.S. I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.............PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all Americans to wake up!

In the words of Patrick Henry, “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” If freedom-loving Americans don’t take a stand, our precious liberties may be lost forever.

I suspect there isn't overwhelming Obama support on this list. My uncle and mother's parents have been on the prejudice side, but they are ignorant and are generally pretty decent people. As a side note, I'm sort of interested in seeing just what they and the cousins think about Obama, we've never really talked politics. My mom's family I think are/were Dems, before the puke culture and now, race wars. They are basically god-fearing Catholics, not especially practicing, but still don't want to go to hell.

To be honest, I'm not especially close to that side of the family so the risk of this isn't that high, but I'd rather not burn the bridge. We've never gotten any other political stuff until now.


My idea for a response is something like this:

You sure seem to have a lot of problems with the president. I'm not going to waste mine or anyone's else time, like you have ours. I don't think I have enough time to turn someone's heart that has much hate, but when I want someone's opinion about President Obama I'll ask those whose opinion matter:

The Professionals:



And the American People:

Obama Approval Rating Is 68 Percent, New Nationwide Poll Shows
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090428/pl_bloomberg/aye7j8cfp2ee

A lot of people think he's doing pretty good.

How would you respond?

[elleng]

1. Same, if at all.

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[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

2. Yeah, but I'm tired of being on the receiving end of this BS.

This email list might not be the most appropriate place to get into it. I'm just fed up with only the puke crap being what people read.

[rwheeler31]

3. I like hearing from you but some of this spam

E mail is just garbage please don't send that stuff.