Dear President Obama:
In my office, where I am now sitting, I have the front page of the San Jose Mercury News framed on the wall. The headline: "Remaking America." I am a 55 year old white guy who shed tears of joy when you were elected, because you are obviously smart, and you said you care about things like social justice and the environment. What happened to you? Was is money? Kowtowing to the corporations that feed your political war chest? I don't expect you to even read this; I'm sure one of your assistants to the assistant of the undersecretary of the assistant press secretary will report with a check mark against your plans for more offshore drilling. I will become a statistic; a callous number that you will add to the river of opinion and data from which you will try to forge a policy position. You've lost your heart. I'm sure you have read Thomas Friedman ... his books, his columns, and choose to ignore the reality he presents, all for the sake of trying to be a moderate voice in a partisan world. Screw politics. Are the dangers of offshore drilling to be sacrificed for some cynical political agenda? I'm sure the person who reads this and deletes this would say sure! The ends justify the means, he or she would say. It's your legacy President Obama. The tears I shed in 2008 are rapidly being replaced by the tears of watching you turn your back on what is right. Oil killing countless God's creations, destroying small businesses up and down the delta, and yet you don't want to act "prematurely" on your position on offshore drilling. Tell that to the thousands of dead animals, birds and businesses that your political obsessions are feeding.
Dennis Taylor
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I don't know whether it's coincidence or not, but the President is from a coal state, which makes if very curious to me that this "environmental president" has refused to even utter the words "natural gas" when it is America's cleanest and most abundant source of energy. This despite breakthroughs in drilling technology that have made nat gas 10 times more abundant than previously thought. Oil, and its cousin, coal, is the dirty status quo, and Obama is selling his soul to protect their interests.
ReplyDeleteLike most politicians. I listened to the president of the natural gas association being interviewed on NPR and he said the answer is simple: Big Oil has all the money, all the political influence and most importantly, all the campaign contributions. Corporations buy elections, and now, apparently, presidents.
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