Position to remain vacant through 2020

Just for fun, how about We the people decide not to fill the chief executive position this term.  No that doesn’t mean that Obama stays in office.  He goes home but we just don’t fill the position.  The same for vice president.  With the legislature impotent from self inflicted gridlock, let’s just do without an executive director for a while.

But what if we are attacked?

I am confident that General Joe Dunford will do what is necessary to provide for the common defense.

But what about appropriations?

You don’t need the president’s signature if you have a two-thirds majority.

But that would require representatives to work together.

What a noble idea.  Let’s try it.  If we can manage that, then in 2020 let’s have a presidential election and see if we can’t find someone presidential.  Until then, let’s just not fill the position.

We the people of the United States in order to get back on track towards forming a more perfect union have decided not to fill the positions of president and vice president for this term.  Please check back for the 2020 election only if you have a heart of service and will truly serve the people.

The Management 

And open letter to a president or two

The following was submitted to President Bill Clinton and President Barrack Obama.  It is doubtful that it will reach either man, so I offer it hear as an open letter to the president and to all elected government leaders.

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