An Open Letter to President Obama

An Open Letter to President Obama, re: Terrorism

Dear President Obama:

The eighth anniversary of 9/11 recently passed, with little recognition from your White House. You prefer to honor that awful day by calling it “A National Day of Service and Remembrance,” with the remembrance part almost as an afterthought.

Your Democratic congress has now rubber-stamped your wish. Now 9/11 will be equated with a day to pick up trash on city streets and volunteering to work as ACORN militants rather than as a day for commemorating a vicious, mindless, unprovoked attack on our national soil by Islamic fanatics which resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.

Demonstrating the absurdity of that designation, Sen. Charles Schumer (D. N.Y.) fully supports it: http://bit.ly/FOdSi.

With all due respect, Mr. President, I firmly believe that you and your fellow Democrats are either living in a fantasy world or, and I hesitate to write this, that you yearn for another 9/11 thinking that the popularity that accrued to President Bush in 2001 will somehow accrue to you after the next massacre.

Frankly, I don’t think that will happen and if the next attack is as ugly as 9/11, you and your Democratic Party will, rightfully, be seen as culpable due to years of minimizing and/or ignoring the threat that has never diminished, has never disappeared.

With any luck, following that assault–which will inevitably come and which very well may be far more devastating to our country–the Democratic Party may not survive as a viable political institution.

I honestly hope it does survive, despite its stupidity and iniquity.

More importantly, I hope we survive as a nation.

I’ve heard that you are a constitutional scholar, Mr. President, so I wouldn’t presume to suggest I could offer any insights into your consitutional scholarship. I will therefore only present my admittedly ignorant observations.

The Founding Fathers, based on my limited understanding, understood that this new country needed checks and balances on the various powers and therefore sculpted into the Constitution the counterbalancing executive, legislative, and judicial branches. We need opposing parties to keep the party in power in check.

One essential requisite for any American political party, however, is that its fundamental interest be the well being, . . .

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