I love my sister and consider her a good person. Usually, we can avoid contentious political issues in order to be able to continue a close relationship. Since the election, however, she has slowly lost her ability to abide by this understanding, frequently injecting Rushisms in one way or another. I have ignored it until now, but a recent Obama attack article in the mail from her was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and I had to respond.
I am posting this letter to get feedback, as it really is from my heart, and perhaps it might be useful to someone with a similar person in their life. (My best friend thought it was good, even commenting "It is good enough for the goddess--Arianna!" I certainly would not go that far.)
p.s. As a gay man without marriage equality, the 2004 election strategy of Karl Rove hurt me so deeply that I lost my hope for our society to the point that my health eroded and my very life was threatened. Finding this site and community was the start of rekindling that hope and lust for life. I want to say Thank You to you all, but especially to Kos.
Debbie, my love. Finally read the article you mailed to me last week.
I really worry that Foxnews has warped your sense of what is happening in this country and the world. I cannot be offended when you explode about President Obama because reality shows he is doing the right things. However, I can be worried about how your information stream has effected your view of the world. Myopic. The only way to show you this is with reason and facts.
- The article you bothered to send me in the mail said nothing except that a bunch of right wing nut jobs incited by both Glen Beck and right wing militias (i.e. Timothy McVeigh) are staging tea parties and that the author thinks Obama is Carter. There were no other facts in that piece. Why did you send it?
- The situation in September, according to the Bush people, was that the entire economy was within days of a complete and utter collapse, where your ATM would not work and your payroll check would not be cashed. THAT IS THE SITUATION YOUR PEOPLE LEFT US WITH. REMEMBER??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! The TARP, AIG, and GM bailouts were initiated by REPUBLICAN BUSH in panic mode just to band-aid the situation before Mr. W could go away. WHERE WAS HE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS CRISIS? WHY DID HE AND HIS PEOPLE NOT PREVENT IT? THAT IS WHAT HE IS PAID FOR!!!!! PEOPLE SCREAM ABOUT AIG BONUSES, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE OVER THE SALARY PAID TO THE PRESIDENT THAT WAS IN CHARGE OF KEEPING THIS FROM HAPPENING???? That outrage was the election, you guys lost, and your media is scrambling to come up with a reason to exist by spouting hysteria and incitement, and you and Jim have followed it hook line and sinker. Birth Certificates. Teleprompters. Angry Michelle. Socialists/marxists. Muslim. Your Rush is your Goebles. Violent revolution is being mentioned, WITH A QUESTION MARK BESIDE IT TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY, on your channel all of the time, THIS IS THE GREAT DANGER TO OUR CHERISHED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOT OBAMA, and you and Jim have fallen for it because you only watch Fox and listen to Rush. You are addicted to Rush and his hatred. You have to listen to him when I am in the car after not seeing me for months......why? He is a mad man. He is like Chuckie the evil clown. A hair follicle test would show heavy OXY as his pool man in Palm Beach still gets it for him, according to internet reports, which is better quality journalism than represented in the Corsi book Obamanation!
- Our GNP is about 11 trillion dollars. The Republican Economic Crisis (REC) was about to drop demand in the economy (supply=demand) by at least 2 trillion, resulting in a tulmultuous crisis of extreme unemployment, financial collapse, and break our civil society. THAT IS WHAT OUR PRESIDENT ENCOUNTERD ON DAY ONE AND HE KNEW THAT ONLY AN IMMEDIATE MASSIVE COMMITMENT OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING COULD EFFECT THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MARKET TO PREVENT THIS (AGAIN A BIG THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) FROM HAPPENING!! Our constitutional process (remember, President Obama was a Professor of Constitutional Law, counter to Jim's claim to me that he never had a job in his life,,,,, opposite W. who never had a job his daddy or Karl Rove didn't make and keep for him) is slow by design, and what the President has done was as necessary as what FDR did after Pearl Harbor. When a patient is on the floor not breathing, you give CPR. It does not matter if you would rather the breath comes from his own muscles or your efforts, it must be done to keep the patient alive. The spending must be done now, even though all would rather it be without debt, and well thought out. What would Kiefer Sutherland do on 24? Whatever it takes to keep the bomb from going off. So any arguement about excessive spending, borrowing, or bailouts now is like the drowning man complaining about how his rescuer decides to pull him to safety. DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOUR PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO US????
- You said to me you will miss Bush. What will you miss?
Him using a destructive attack on western civilization's greatest achievement- New York City- and the horriffic death of 3.000 Americans to lead us into a war he had already decided to wage? Him subverting The Constitution of the United States of America which he was sworn to defend by revoking habeus corpus and spying on us without warrants? Or him breaking international laws THAT WE WROTE AND IMPLEMENTED AROUND THE WORLD against torture? And now you complain about what President Obama might do with people who were just living in the area of battle that have been imprisoned for 6 years without charge or evidence???? I love this country, the world loved this country, because we stand,or stood, for something and under your people the principle of justice under law was subverted. Obama is doing what he can to fix this wound.
What will you miss?
Him firing federal attorneys because they would not, at Karl Rove's insistence, go after political targets in order to gain a "PERMANANT REPUBLICAN MAJORITY" (A ONE PARTY STATE, AGAIN A GREAT THREAT TO OUR BELOVED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), taking the justice department from "equal justice under law" to a political tool? Even Nixon was not that bold.... Is that what you will miss?
Maybe it is putting a horse race lawyer in charge of disaster relief because of political connections, resulting in the utter destruction of an entire major American City??? Is that what you miss??
Or is it the most hurtful to me of all?
Do you miss a man that gained re-election by inciting hatred of your only brother, getting his electoral votes by putting constitutional amendments on ballots in key states to put into law that my relationship with Carter, in fact my entire person-hood, is deficient to full rights and citizenship, just to get elected again? Is that what you miss? What more terrible thing could any politician have done, Debbie, and how can you overlook it??? It was petty, divisive, and evil. But it worked. Karl Rove. Bill OReilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, they are making great money by attracting the demographic of the conservative wealthy. But it is not right, it is not reality, it is not the future, AND IT IS NOT AMERICA.
- Your article stated President Obama's approval ratings were dropping.....WRONG.....65%. This country is now liberal. We want universal health care. In fact we demand it. We want a strong middle class. No, we demand it. Food safety. Environmental protections. This labeling of Socialist is not going to work because actually Europe is a great society to aspire to......high education, great healthcare, great standard of living, great cultural life, great public transportation, a great union of people in something called a fair and decent society. What is it about Europe that you guys don't like? I would move there in a minute. Your influences caused you to call President Obama a Marxist. If he were, the banks would have already been nationalized, which should have been done, as both Ben Stein and Warren Buffet said months ago "Banking is too important to be handled as a Las Vegas crap game." PRESIDENT OBAMA IS A PRAGMATIST.
6)Our planet is sick because of carbon, and our nation is dependent on Muslim Oil. (I am not even going to argue, cause if you disagree on global warming you are really blinded by your media to the point where there is no reason to talk about it and you need to take evolution and science out of your home encyclopedias.) Obama must act now and boldly to move our modern way of life to something sustainable to prevent an incredible catastrophy. Old standards of government non interference will lead to a sudden collapse of our way of life at best, or a complete dark age at worst. During Rome's fall, a lack of Obama's type of vision allowed short term gain and rear view thinking to dive the western world into a thousand years of ignorance, disease, poverty, war, death, distruction and loss of knowledge. YOUR PEOPLE, BOTH IN GOVERNMENT AND IN YOUR MEDIA, HAVE MADE THAT POSSIBLE AGAIN. What do YOU propose to do with 50 million unisured Americans and a health care system with 12% cost increases annually? Leave it to the private sector? Come on!
President Obama, presented with this situation he did not want or expect, is doing things that just might get us out of this crisis. But maybe not. But if he can't, there are certainly no options your side has presented that offer any hope. After all, your guys got us into this mess and are trying, though the brainwashing you get with 3hours of Rush a day, drive us over the cliff.
Please, Debbie, ask yourself, how does the inflamatory retoric of Rush, Sean, Bill, and Glen help anyone except them?? They are wrong for our country, our world, and most importantly to me, they are wrong for you.