My Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,
I will use your title to begin because you won it fair and square, but it is a title that I fear holds no weight anymore. I more so than most was vocal in my support of you while you were running for office, as I am merely a permanent resident with no rights to vote. I researched your points, and made sure that all my friends knew, and that they let their friends know, because I thought you represented change. That you would be like the break wall, stopping the monstrous waves from toppling this great nation. Now it is with deep regret and disappointment that I write you this letter. I have been laid off twice in 12 months, and while I thank you for my unemployment benefits, I would rather have known that you fought for the tax cuts and healthcare public option, even if it meant me sleeping on a couch and mooching off of friends. When you compromise all the time sometimes what you are left with is no better than what you started with, and I feel this is the impasse that we have reached. You haven’t done all bad I will admit, but with the big life changing items, you have failed to do what we elected you to do. You were unable to get a public option passed with a democratic house and senate, I think only because in your aw shucks way you couldn’t even get all the democrats behind it. Even now with a democratic majority you still can’t seem to get the people who, supposedly share your fundamental views to pass what you want. Sir, with all due respect I think they are waiting for a leader, just as we all are. Stop trying to cajole and charm these people, call them to attention! Rather than you announcing, a “complete capitulation” in the words of Arianna Huffington, why not take it to the people? Why not stand there during your press conference and simply ask America to let there voices be heard? If you showed enough leadership to do that, we would answer your call. You of all people should know this as a former community organizer. The Republicans have proved that the only way they know how to govern is to play nasty in the sand box, by holding things hostage and by making threats. Let them do it! Let them all go down for treason in a time of war for allowing the government to shut down. With the added bonus that maybe their pay will also be stopped until they see sense and reason.
Further more, I ask, no beg, that you become the leader that we all thought you would be. Charm, good looks, and swagger are all great things, but honestly, there comes a time when you have to ram it down there throats. You have had several opportunities to do this and you have not. It makes me wonder, as my Dad who is a US citizen didn’t vote for you, because he thinks it is unfair that he always has to choose between the lesser of two evils. Is this your brand of evil? Capitulation?
Please fight for us as hard as we fought for you, we are waiting for your leadership, and if there is heartache in there we will manage it. This country was and will always be a nation of immigrants, of people who chose not to accept the way life was, but instead chose to create it somewhere else. Everyday more of us come here, illegal and legal, but we will fight for that dream. The only question is will you?