Mr. President,
I have long been a supporter of you, your presidential campaign, and your administration. I have long felt that you were not going to be the radical that many painted you to be, and were going to be doing things that both the left and the right would not like.
You've earned my praise with Sotomayer, the economic stimulus, the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, SCHIP, and improving our status in the world. You have also earned my criticism for the continued lack of transparency (even though I can understand why), Don't Ask Don't Tell, the continued circumventing of the Fourth Amendment, and your mismanagment of the bank bailouts. Still, despite all that, I have been willing to give you and your administration the benefit of the doubt that you are still going to be the change we can believe in.
Then came health care reform, and now I don't know what to believe.
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