Does this mean that you will recognize and be grateful for the billions given by President Bush to fight AIDS in Africa, and that you are now glad the U.S. and its allies stopped Saddam Hussein from putting people in meat-grinders…that you agree with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which opened up opportunities in Mexico?
Does it also mean that the U.S. ought to start producing and consuming its own resources, rather than those of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other tough regimes?
Do you really think that punishing the coal industry (you said lately that even cleaner coal ought to go bankrupt) is going to help the American economy, given that most of the power grids in the United States are operated by coal? And your executive order to prohibit oil-drilling on federal land leases, which are traditional way of the country getting revenue and affording the American people some energy-independence, is not right for these times. Yes, alternative sources of energy, one of which, wind-power, I have promoted here for years, are a good goal, but they are not ready for the show. The U.S. still needs oil, gas and coal. You were in Hawaii when the power went out for twelve hours. That ought to have been a wake-up call for you. I lived through a famous outage on the east coast in summer 2003. These power-grids need to be updated, and ought to have been during the Clinton administration. The importance of clean coal, a system which brilliant American chemical engineering departments developed, is underlined by the immediate dependence upon coal for American life, industry, and even the internet. How are you going to rebuild the infrastructure and create jobs when you kill the industries that have a great hand in creating them? Do you know what it takes to run a country, besides hot air? Oil, natural gas, and coal. Do you realize that France depends 80% upon nuclear power? Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Francophiles in the U.S. who hate nuclear power.
God bless and keep you and your family. May the presidency cause you to grow in wisdom day by day.
May you truly cause change, and discourage continuation of the bitter political tone of the past eight years. Sure, you have united the Democrats, but it is time to reach out to the other side of the aisle with a new tone of civility and true acceptance of diversity. The crowds at your inauguration were particularly ungracious and rude to the arriving Republican dignitaries, including Presidents Bush 41 and 43, Barbara and Laura Bush. These two presidents support you and have magnanimously paved the way for a smooth transition into your White House, which is something the Clinton administration savagely sabotaged for the Bush incumbency, costing the nation millions in repairs and re-organization. If you wish to have a unified nation, please consider setting an example of tolerance and gratitude that your followers will heed. Otherwise, the United States will see more of the same hatred and divisiveness that is witnessed on bumper-stickers to this day, which “peacefully” call for the extermination of Presidents Bush 41 and 43. Yes, change must work both ways, or any attempt to promote it will ring hollow.
President and Mrs. George Herbert Walker Bush wore purple scarves to your inauguration yesterday, with the expressed purpose of symbolizing unity by blending both blue and red. The ball is in your corner now, President Obama!
