An attempt to fulfill my 750 words pledge on a day I didn't have much to write, which I thought I may as well share with the internet. A hypothetical letter a braver and more optimistic me might have sent to Mr Barack Obama.
Dear Mr President,
Come take a walk with me. Actually, don't bother, we can just facebook chat. It's less strenuous on my minuscule muscular structures.
So, anyways.
I was wondering if you'd like to shed the political image for a while, given that I will never have to opportunity of voting for or against you, and talk to me honestly, man to, um, effeminate penis-ed teenager?
Do you think you've fulfilled the lofty promises you made during your election campaign? Did you every really intend to?
Do you think any of your policies have had the slightest chance of bringing peace and/or uniting the United States?
If I were to promise never to tell anyone, would you tell me honestly why you invaded Libya? Did you honestly think you were protecting anyone or anything, other than America's short-term material needs?
If you were to turn from the sophism which modern politics demands from you, and formulate a genuine political philosophy based on nothing but your ideals and principles, what would it look like? Do you honestly believe in free speech, in social justice? Which of those is more important to you? Do you believe in direct, uncluttered, uncorrupted democracy? Do you honestly believe in democracy at all?
What do you actually think about the gays? If you had no voters or lobby groups to appease, and no vested interest in doing anything but being totally honest, what would you say about people like me? What would you say about people having open relationships with members of the same sex? Does is revolt you? Can you rise above that revulsion? Or do you think it is natural, healthy? Do you celebrate all expressions of love?
If your father were still alive, would he be proud of you? Was he a sophist, or an idealist? Would he want you to invade anywhere in North Africa or the Middle East? Would he want you to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, or introduce universal health care, or launch the USA PATRIOT act?
What do you think of the citizens you serve? How do you view them, and your responsibility to them? Are they there to be monitored and controlled? Are they there to be reached and co-operated with? Are they a source of profit? Are they your servants, or you theirs? Do you still honestly view yourself as one of them?
Do you think you've played too much on the race thing? Do you think you would have been elected were it not for the symbolism of having a black president after this long struggle?
Do you hate anyone, Mr President? Would you ever use the power at your fingertips to destroy your enemies?
Finally, do you even want to help those under the yoke of extremist Islam; or is the plan to exploit the situation for America's benefit, and America's only? Do you understand the role the West has played in fueling the hatred of the terrorists? Do you feel any remorse at all for the extent your predecessors have bled those nations dry? Do you accept the assertion that the West created the Third World in the first place? If you did, would you want to do anything about it? Do you honestly believe that your singular responsibility is to Americans, not the human race?
Thank you for your time, Mr. President.
God bless.
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