As you awaken to the day that Senator Kennedy is to be buried what might you do, not say Sir but do, to make this day more than memorable - more than about the loss of a great person and everything about all those whom he had hoped to provide care.
What might you do, Mr President.
Of course you can use your wonderful smile and exceptional intellect to shape and deliver a stirring speech. But, Sir, the dead do not hear and those whom Senator Kennedy most cared will hear the words, they will grieve and they will wonder why - why is this President, the President of hope, not delivering something other than a speech.
They need care, Mr. President.
They need not only empathy, they need action, and not the kind that has occupied your Presidency to date.
We are not unaware of the massive peril that actions late in Clinton's administration and amplified to devastating levels in the Bush administration represented (and continue to represent) to financial solvency and sustainability of America. We realize that while you've been focused on bailing out banks, and AIG, and automobile companies that decades ago should have been producing vehicles that did not require petroleum for fuel, you've not been quite as focused on the people who elected you, Mr. President, as you need to be.
In case you've failed to notice, lots of those folk are not enthralled with your performance.
Maybe its because they aren't sophisticated enough to understand the big challenges you encountered seconds after you took the oath of office. However, they are the folk whom elected you.
So, on this very dark day, a day we all face the horrible reality of death being final -- and on this day the final being the burial of an American politician who truly cared for those most in need -- what are you going to DO?.
Here's a suggestion that might just place you on a path traveled by very few American Presidents - in the past 100 years only by FDR - announce that you will only sign health care legislation that truly honors all that Senator Kennedy strove to achieve - Medicare as a Choice for EVERY AMERICAN.
That's it, Mr. President - Medicare as a CHOICE for EVERY AMERICAN.
Be clear of what your actions will be, Sir. State unequivocally that your hand will never hold a pen that inks a piece of legislation into law that does not accomplish that objective and that you commit yourself to ensuring that every American has that choice and that the law will be named in honor of Senator Kennedy - TeddyCare Option For All Americans.
Yes. You. Can.
Will you?
Defining moment, Mr President, is hours away for you. I hope you do what Senator Kennedy would have already done had he been President of the United States.
Thank you.