Dear Mr. President,
When Barrack Obama was elected as our nation’s president, I
signed up for the White House electronic newsletter. I did not vote for Mr. Obama, but he was
elected and therefore he became my president and received my prayers and
respect.
I was surprised that because I signed up for this newsletter
from the president I was also put on every electronic mailing list for the
Democratic Party. This in itself was not
something that I would expect from the office of the president, but worse than
the deluge of emails from various democratic sources was the vitriolic tone of
them all. I would not have been privy to
such acrimonious attacks on fellow public servants if not for the presumption
that all people who signed up for the president’s newsletter were Republican-hating-Democrats.
This mindset has killed the attitude that our elected
officials are public servants. The
Republican Party and the Tea Party are equally as acrimonious in their
communications, but when I sign up for a candidate’s newsletter, I know that I
will receive a dose of partisan horsehockey.
The same should not be true when I sign up for something from my
president.
At any time I could have opted to be deleted from the
mailing list that I was unilaterally placed upon, but I followed the discourse
promulgated to see if it might finally put the American people and their needs
ahead of selfish political interests. My
optimism was quickly dismissed as the vitriolic diatribe increased its venomous
barrage.
I send this to you as perhaps the only living President or
national leader from the Democratic Party that might be able to speak to today’s
leaders that are addicted to extreme rancor and disdain for any thinking other
than their own. Senator Dole has issued
some similar remarks to the Republican Party.
It is time to move beyond divisiveness and into true
statesmanship. I request that you take
an active part in this effort on a national scale.
Semper Fidelis,
Tom Spence
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