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Dear President Obama,
Although I did not vote for you, I wrote you a very warm email congratulating you on your victory. I told all of my conservative friends that I owed you the benefit of the doubt.
My disagreements with you were political, not personal. I am a conservative Republican, and you are a liberal Democrat. Yet I never disliked you as a human being.
If you do not believe me, feel free to read my blog. In fact, recommend it to your conservative friends. I could use the traffic, and if you truly are as bipartisan as you claim, then you have conservative friends.
I am writing this letter because of something your wife said awhile ago. She said that your election would help "fix America's broken soul."
Mr. President, it has become clear that it is your soul that is on the verge of breaking.
You must stop demonizing people simply because they disagree with you. It is not just bad politics. It is bad for humanity.
I don't expect you to change your views on healthcare or other policy issues. Yet you must change your tone.
I have told my fellow conservatives that I truly believed that you were a good and decent man, a good husband and father who loves his country.
Yet if you love America, you have to love what makes America great. What makes America great is the American people.
When I wake up in the morning, I think of what I can do to improve America. Sometimes my vision of how to do this conflicts with yours. That does not make either one of us evil.
You have spent far too much time criticizing your predecessor, despite the fact that he has been overwhelmingly gracious to you and your family. In fact, to this day he refuses to publicly criticize you.
You have attacked Rush Limbaugh, who has never flown planes into towers or committed an evil act against America in anyway. The last time I checked, all he has done is hosted a political program where he criticizes your policies.
Now you are attacking Fox News with the same passion and ferocity that President George W. Bush used to topple the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
This verbal carpet-bombing of people just for disagreeing with you must stop. Every minute you engage in the politics of personal destruction, you lose the ability to work with people that you may need to help with policies that could feed children, get kids off of drugs, improve schools, strengthen families, and keep America strong.
Afghanistan and Iraq need your attention, and you are distracted...and distracting...with nonsense.
Sir, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee gave you a very courteous reminder that you must treat your political opponents with basic human dignity.
Mr. President, do you remember President George W. Bush ever attacking MSNBC, the New York Times, NPR, and a myriad of other news outlets that hated his guts because he was a conservative who existed and breathed air?
You have been treated with kid gloves while punching your opponents with gloves filled with rocks.
It is time for you and your administration to stop acting like verbal suicide bombers.” to “It is time for you and your administration to stop these attacks.
I have repeatedly stated that I thought you were a good person with some bad policy ideas. Yet now I am questioning how good a human being you are.
President George W. Bush is a good human being. He disagreed with people without personally trying to rip them to shreds. Perhaps this is due to his religious faith, or perhaps he has a discipline inside him that I know I do not always possess.
President Obama, American conservatives and Republicans are not the enemy. Bob Dole once said that Bill Clinton was not his enemy, but his opponent. You must get to this point with your political opponents.
The enemies of America are trying to kill us. We are in the middle of a global life and death struggle between civilization and barbarism. Republicans cannot help win the War on Terror without you. You are our leader. Yet you can't be a success without them either.
Sir, you need to start acting like an adult. The daily temper tantrums will backfire in the long run. To quote football coach Dennis Green, "Only babies get what they want all the time. Men have to do it the hard way. There's no room for crybabies."
Mr. President, your election will have been a very hollow victory if you fail to effectively govern. You will fail to effectively govern if you refuse to work with people that have good ideas different from yours.
Your soul is at stake sir. It is on the verge of being irreparably broken.
You told Iran that you would offer an outstretched hand if they unclenched their fist.
If you can reach out to Iran, than surely you can reach out to your fellow Americans. Some said your words of bipartisanship were phony and insincere. I am still willing to wait and see.
Get beyond the hate, reach out that bipartisan hand you promised, and let's get down to business.
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