Open Letter to President Obama

Mr. President,

I've been thinking lately about what you're asking of me, and it's a bit much. I just can't do it. Right now, I may just be a stay at home mom, and you may think of me as a "stupid American" that you need to tell me everything and protect me from everything, but that has not always been the case. You see, between the years of 1984 and 1988, I was protecting your butt while I served in the United States Navy. I protected my country from the Russians. I had it drilled into my head that it was bad Communists/Socialist/Marxist....good Capitalist. I grew up with a whole generation of people who fought Hitler and his ilk who were taught the same thing. Communism bad....Capitalism good. I was taught that in school. I did miss the 1950's when they did the nuclear drills and had to duck under the desks. I'm 2 years younger than you are. So while you used college as an excuse not to serve your country, I was out there tracking Russian Submarines and making sure they didn't vaporize us.

Maybe that's why when you first ran for president, I realized you were not a Democrat. You see, I was raised a Democrat. I became a Republican in the navy. That's why in every other election, I didn't get upset when a Democrat won, and "my guy" lost. How could I? It meant my dad's guy won. My vote didn't really count, because it was just canceling out my dad's vote. When Bill Clinton won? I just went on with my life. Did I complain? Oh sure, sometimes, but I didn't run out and get a blog and complain that the world was coming to an end, he was going to destroy the US, and was deserving of treason charges. I was embarrassed with all the scandals, because it wasn't becoming of a President, and I was SO glad that he didn't sign MY discharge papers.

But when I saw you, all charges of where you were born aside, I knew you weren't a Democrat. I don't care that you ran as a moderate Democrat. You are neither moderate or a Democrat. Like I said, I was raised a Democrat. I also fought the Russians for 4 years. I know their tactics and I recognize them. The Navy taught me to recognize patterns. They just don't always click right away. Sometimes the patterns I see I don't get until they stew for a while. I know them in the back of my head, but I can't put them into words. I just know they're wrong, with every fiber of my being. You, Mr. President, are wrong. You're wrong for America and America knows it.

America is finding out fast because there are others like me that smell a rat. I know because I worked with Russians. There are LEGAL immigrants from Russian who fled that, who know. There are Vietnam veterans (even Democrat ones) who fought communism who are just as familiar with as me and know it. There are the WWII veterans who fought against communism/socialism/Marxism who are just as familiar with it as me, who know it. You can't silence all of us. We know. We feel it. And every time you cram a policy down our throats without us approving it, you prove just how fascist you are. Every time you silence dissent, you prove it. Every time you use another tactic out of the Alinsky play book, you prove it.

You have to realize, America doesn't want to spread her wealth. We want what we worked for and we want everyone else to work for what they get. America doesn't want anyone telling her what is best for her. Especially some spoiled brat who was raised by a Marxist/Communist and is taking on the dreams of his socialist father from Africa who isn't even an American. A man who's father hated Great Britain, our greatest ally. A man who is bent on destroying every thing we stand for out of some twisted idea of social justice.

I leave you with this thought: We can see November, 2012 from our back porch. How's the view from your porch? America is more resilient than you may think. And we won't fall to chaos as easily as you think. Prayer is a powerful tool. We are not the destructive left you are used to working with.

Lori Ann Smith