A Letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama,

As the 44th President of the United States and the 43rd beneficiary of an uninterrupted peaceful transition of power, unprecedented in the annals of mankind's history, you are the heir of the Republic's finest traditions. You are a symbol of the Founder's greatest hopes and aspirations. You are the leader of our people, a people bound together by an unshakable faith in the eternal truth of human liberty and the eternal promise of freedom.

You were elected to office in the hopes that you would fashion a new way forward following the impact of sudden economic decline and years of bitter partisan warfare. You were elected to office in the belief that you were beyond the petty "gotcha" politics of the past era. You were elected to office in the belief that you could and would repair our strained relationships with old friends and new allies. You were elected to office in the belief that you could finally alleviate lingering racial tensions and bridge residual societal divides.

You were elected because you characterized yourself as a savior. Your followers grew weak in the knees at your very presence. Your message was Messianic. You became the living embodiment of the hope that you espoused. The people swooned. And the people rewarded you for your self-imposed greatness with the most powerful role on the planet.

But some of us knew different. Some of us could pierce through the narcissistic facade of your self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Some of us knew you were a charlatan from the very beginning. And some of us decided that you had to be fought.

We sensed that your past connections with radical minds ran as deep as they did wide. We argued fervently, sometimes at the point of impassioned incoherence, the alarming lack of substance in your shallow resume. We sounded the alarms on your comfortable willingness to characterize your own nation and people as part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We recoiled in terror at your proud promotion of social engineering and your adulation for expanded government control over the lives of your fellow citizens. We felt the tingling chill run up our spines as we contrasted the other guy's emphasis on reform of government with your zeal for reforming America.

And with clenched jaws of distrust and disdain, we read your cool disassociation from your past and your flippant denial of your true ideological allegiances as proof of your desire to gain power at any and all costs--a harbinger of a future clouded by the machinations of a man whose oratory gifts had been used for the sole purpose of acquiring power over others.

In the year since your election, you have revealed your true face to a broader public. At home you spend your energy crafting new measures of control over the populace under the guise of "reform" and "social justice." You expand your reach into ever more sectors of American enterprise, from the automobile industry to insurance agencies to Wall Street itself. You wage class warfare by demonizing the successful and the rich as agents of chaos against the poor and middle class.

You spend money we don't have in record amounts we don't grasp for reasons we don't understand. And when the results for this profligate behavior fall spectacularly short of your ephemeral promises, your Administration lies and obfuscates with the numbers. Imaginary statistics, like "jobs saved," are invented in an effort to discredit those opposed to your reckless schemes.

And when you are presented with evidence of your policies' failures, you resort to blaming all your travails on your predecessor, reneging on your promises of a post-partisan presidency.

When you're not spending your time schmoozing on the late night talk shows or giving interviews to GQ magazine and Men's Health, you're lecturing the American people in press conferences on the necessity for your social engineering. Despite 90% percent of Americans possessing health insurance, 80% of Americans satisfied with their medical care, and most Americans opposed to the entire idea, you continue to mislead the public and demonize your opponents. If the concern was about insuring those without insurance, part of the travesty that was your $787 billion "stimulus" package could have been allocated to simply buy the insurance for the uninsured.

But that has never been the aim nor the true concern. The goal has always been government control over the insurance industries and health care itself. A goal that when achieved would force the lower and middle class into a state of dependence upon the government for their very livelihood--a goal that would finish what was begun by FDR and LBJ to cement a permanent voter majority for those touting government solutions to societal ills.

Thus is the true nature of you and your Administration on all of these issues, from healthcare to cap-and-trade to the bailouts themselves. And those who refuse to bow, as you so assiduously have done to monarchs abroad, to your great scheme are categorized as fringe elements, branded as potential "domestic extremists" by your Department of Homeland Security, or characterized as the discredited proponents of your predecessor's "failed" policies.

You talk to Americans one way at home and another behind our back. You speak of America's potential for greatness at home (as if we have never been considered great before) whilst condemning our alleged sins to foreign audiences. You publicly berate our democratic friends in Honduras, Colombia, and Israel whilst publicly seeking warmer relations with our sworn enemies in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

When you're not bowing to despotic oil barons or neutering our allies in Europe at the behest of imperialistic, kleptocratic neo-Kossacks in Russia, you're watching with silent disinterest at the plight of those quite literally dying to be free in the theocratic nightmare state of Iran.

Where once we were at war with radical Islamists, we now refer not to war or victory over our enemies, but rather of meeting our "obligations" in our "overseas contingency operations." Where once we committed ourselves to meeting their tyranny and dark vision with liberty and all the resources of our overwhelming might, we now speak of withdrawals, time lines, and compromise. Where once we called acts of terrorism for the heinousness that they are, we now only refer to ambiguous, morally neutral "man-made disasters."

Nowhere else is this more evident than in your Administration's decision to try the perpetrators of the most heinous act of war ever inflicted upon our shores in civilian courts reserved for American citizens. Here, the jihadists, who just a few months ago looked forward to the sweet release of death, will instead use the venue as a forum to eschew their hate for America and twist the truth and sow the seeds of self-loathing into the minds of the people in the hopes that we come to believe that somehow we deserved their barbarism.

And just last night, as you stood before hundreds of our finest and brightest men and women preparing to engage these barbarians overseas, you announce a plan bred of blatant cognitive dissonance. Ignoring the advice of your own generals, you have spent the past three months crafting the exact same policy proscribed in March, with the caveats of it being less robust in effort and placed within the strictures of a limited time frame. This "strategy" is designed to set our troops up for failure while giving you political cover.

You prepare to send our men and women into harm's way after months of feigning serious deliberations, while at the same time announcing that the rug will be pulled out from under our effort, their effort, at an arbitrary date of your choosing--a date that one can't help but notice comes just before your bid for reelection.

And as if this wasn't enough, you add insult to injury by lamenting the $30 billion price tag needed to continue the fight. This on the heels of $787 billion of fraudulent and ineffective "stimulus" spending and in the wake of your proposed $2 trillion plan to create a new government health care monstrosity for reasons that are misguided and financially unsustainable at best and duplicitous and economically disastrous at worst. Coming from the man who has spent over double what his predecessor spent in his first year in office, the regrettable $30 billion is only regrettable because it has come so late and with so little priority in your Administration's calculus.

As a citizen of the Republic you pretend to lead, as an appalled observer of the vacuousness of your character, and as a man who believes in the sovereignty of an Almighty God, the pressure building inside from all of these actions threatens to break me, the fire of my outrage threatening to burn me.

As I think back through the course of human history and to the establishment of our great nation, to the shot heard 'round the world at Lexington and Concord, to the constitutional assemblies of truly brave and great men risking everything to forge a new path for mankind, to the distant shores of Tripoli, to the star-spangled sky above Fort McHenry, to the fated clash of brothers at Gettysburg, to the blood-soaked beaches of Normandy, to the flag raising at Iwo Jima, to the righteous cause of Martin Luther King, to the quest to walk upon the very surface of the moon, to the unflinching demand to a dictator to tear down that wall, and to the small man from Texas, bullhorn in hand, standing atop the burning rubble of the tallest buildings and the bodies of his fellow countrymen to declare to the whole world that our dead would be avenged and that our cause was just, I cannot help but think that you are going to undo all of it. That you are the one who will bring it all to an ignominious end.

For you it is hope with despair, change by force, and unity through division.

I am far from home, but as an American living abroad I finally understand the full extent of the power and grandeur of our republic. The aura of our presence and the ripples of our decisions stretch far beyond our boundaries with tangible effects on our friends and our foes.

We can and we have used this power to protect the eternal truths of human liberty, truths shared by our friends. We can and we have used this power to promote the eternal hope of freedom, a hope shared by billions.

But not with you as our leader, Mr. President. Because your loyalty is not to these truths or these hopes. Your loyalty is only to yourself. And when the leader of our Republic fails to share the interests and values of the Republic, he has become not an embodiment of the people's will, but an impediment.

This is no longer about Republicans and Democrats. This is now about liberty and tyranny, classical liberal ideals versus modern statist ambitions.

Thomas Jefferson stated boldly and unequivocally that "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

You, Mr. President, are a tyrant and an impediment.

As a deeply distraught citizen of this Republic, I am obligated to affirm my allegiance solely to the Constitution of the United States and to no other entity, office, or man.

God save us all,
Drew White



U.S. Forces reacting to your Afghanistan "strategy," Mr. President.