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An Open Letter to President Obama

Dear Mr. President

I have been watching the past 54 days of the oil spill and the response efforts and am concerned for those who are directly impacted by the oil spill in the gulf.

A major question is have is when you will be stepping up and taking leadership?

To this point, you have hemmed and hawed and sat on your ass and done photo ops, yet have not really done much. As an example, you gave a really lame excuse on why you did not call the president of BP. You have spent time pointing fingers at previous administrations and other nonsense while the oil continues to flow.

You sent your PhD/Nobel prize winning advisor down and he did not understand why the oil did not stop with the top hat – why did he not get briefed?

You stated that this is not a college lecture – yet you have treated it as such throughout the whole friggin mess.

You have gone down to the coast and photo-oped the thing to death, you have stated that the government has been “on the spill” since the beginning when in fact it was for a search and rescue mission for the missing workers. You continue to spin like a pinwheel on a windy day. Yet the oil keeps flowing.

Now you erroneously are threatening to sue BP and wag your long index finger at them, creating animosity while the focus should be getting the resources to the gulf. Yet the oil keeps flowing.

Your minions in the media have done a horrible job at covering up your ineptitude while you continue to place the blame on others. Yet when I read the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, command of an oil spill rests squarely upon the shoulders of the President. Yet you failed to act for weeks. And the OIL KEEPS FLOWING!

By the way – the OPA was written by Democrats to hold George HW Bush accountable for oil spills, looks like a little backfire, eh?

Quite frankly Mr. President, you have not shown leadership. All you have shown is an immature person who cannot make a decision. Your decision process is one which requires all the information. Here is a little hint for leadership: if you have 40 to 80% of the info, you have enough to make a decision – and that is what a leader does.

Mr. President, you need to crap or get off the pot. If you cannot get your ass in gear and make some executive decisions and stop hanging your staff out to dry, you should get off the White House pot and go back to Chicago. Yes, resign, quit, leave. You are hurting the country. You and your idiot savant team are driving this great country into the ground. The country where my family fought for the freedoms which you are manipulating. And no, I am not talking about a war, I am talking about multiple wars going back to the colonial era.

My families blood is vested in freedoms we hold dear since the revolutionary war, to the civil war where one of my ancestors was imprisoned in Andersonville, to the World Wars to Vietnam. They gave their all for this country and I will be damed if some fool in the White House is going drive this country into the ground.

So Mr. President. Without a speech writer, without a teleprompter, without your advisors whispering in your ear, what will it be? Will you step up and lead? If not, leave. Go away/. Let that clown Biden run the show. You can continue to sponge off the government with your lifetime pension and book royalties. After all, you never have had a real job or voted without saying present (which is not leadership!)

Just Leave. As one of my coaches would say to the slackers: “Obama, your hurtin the program”