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My rant to the White House
Dear Mr. President,
I am a 65-year-old liberal Democrat who enthusiastically supported and voted for you.
Sadly, I can no longer do either. I, and many many others like me, feel we have been betrayed. The current bill on health care is a travesty of reform. It is nothing but a give-away to the health insurance industry and big pharma that uses our taxes to make them even richer than they are already.
You have exhibited an utter lack of leadership, which is appalling given the mandate with which you were elected.
Your inaction and weak support for a strong public option and strong consumer protection from the insurance companies label you at best a sell-out, and at worst, a coward unwilling to stick his neck out and use his political clout to bring his party into line to pass meaningful reform. Your attitude vies a vie Joe Leiberman is particularly telling. An LBJ or FDR would have had him booted from the party and stripped of his chairmanship. Instead, you allowed a man who betrayed his own party to be not only privy to its strategies, but to remain in a position of power.
That’s like a General allowing a traitor to be one of his strategists and commanders.
You have demonstrated time and again a complete lack of good judgment in picking your advisors and have turned a deaf ear to the people's needs and concerns in the areas of credit, housing, small business, manufacturing, national infrastructure and balance of trade to name just a few.
I am truly so sad because I had such high hopes, and within one year you have completely destroyed them.
As of this moment, I will no longer support the DNC or your reelection bid. I will, however, continue to support individual progressive candidates, no matter where they are, in hopes that maybe something can be salvaged from this disaster.
Sincerely,
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