Posted by
Christopher Van on Saturday, November 08, 2008 6:49:36 AM
Dear President Elect Obama,
I am puzzled. For the past two years, during the longest presidential campaign in history, I have heard about how you would help me pay my mortgage and fill my car with gasoline. You parted for the waters for the great unwashed with promises of everything from free healthcare to cable television, yet I still have a pile of bills in front of me.
Your election has proven to be a disappointment not known since realizing that the Brady Bunch house was an architectural fraud. Like you, Mike Brady was a messiah of sorts. He was sold to Americans an ingenious architect who brought together three boys and three girls who lived happily ever after in a home that he designed.
Perhaps you can explain how one can walk in the front door, go to the left, through a kitchen and into a family room and make another left and be in the back yard. Only someone like Steven Spielberg, or the guy who writes your speeches, could design a home where the upstairs bedrooms are suspended over thin air.
Maybe I just don’t know where you are coming from, but your campaign reminds me of the A-Team, where people drive off cliffs, get shot, cars explode but no one ever dies. The show, like your campaign, used smoke, mirrors and stunts to make everyone feel good at the end of the hour, only this isn’t TV and it isn’t an hour. It’s our lives and four years of inevitable economic disaster.
You’re healthcare mandate is a lot like Wylie Coyote falling off the cliff and smashing into the earth below, only those impacted won’t be around to see another scene with Road Runner. In most respects your presidency has already jumped the shark before Reverend Wright has even had a chance to swear you into office. And swear he will; remember, in your world it’s not God Bless America, its G-D America.
In a mere three days since your sheep with the help of ACORN "elected" you we have seen the stock market tumble and job losses reach a fourteen year high. New car sales are at a 25 year low, a recession is imminent and your plan to mandate unionization at stores like Wal-Mart is going to drive even more jobs overseas and more Americans to the unemployment line. But for some strange reason you think a tax increase on the very people who create jobs will be the magic elixir.
My suggestion is that between now and January 20th you go and find an old Delorean, install a flux capacitor and fly back in time to 1985, when we actually had a competent leader who understood national defense and economic prosperity. Pick up a copy of the New York Times before they sold out our nation and read the business section. Learn about free market economics and the evils of communism. Perhaps then you will be fit to lead our nation without your misguided notion of government being the solution, because it’s not. It is the ultimate evil and the sole cause of each and every economic catastrophe facing our nation today.
Christopher Van
www.christophervan.com
P.S. – I’m still waiting for the money to pay my mortgage and fill my gas tank.