Open letter to President Obama

President Obama:
“he came to Washington to "fight for others, not for myself,"… “We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."…(Van Jones)
Mr. President have you forgotten what you promised us during our historic campaign. This quote is not yours but I will be dammed if it was not the message of your campaign.
Are you seriously saying now we must be good soldiers and accept half a loaf that smells of the decay of political triangulating?
CNN in a survey suggests that, by 13 points, Americans think the Democrats rather than the Republicans would do a better job handling the economy and Medicare. The Democrats have a 9 point advantage on health care.
Mr. President in this historical moment you carry the heavy burden of deciding the life and death issues for people who have been ravaged too long by a health care system that says the profit in a dollar is more valuable than the natural unalienable right to health care. I could state the overwhelming statistics which you already are aware of but doing this will not bring back the countless faces no longer with us or plunged into economic despair over a failed system.
This fight is not new. It started with the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
and the Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It continued with the fight for public education and libraries fundamental to a free society healthy in mind and spirit. It continued with the abolition of slavery. It continued with the enactment of child labor law and the right to unionize. It continued with the enactment of social security. It continued with the enactment of civil rights and medicare.
The one universal truth of all these battles is that countless individuals bled and lost their lives to secure these rights. There was always a large vocal minority opposition predicting the end of our civilization as we know it organized primarily by the corporatist who have and never will concede power and influence without extracting our blood and treasury.
I am not in Washington but I am here to fight for my rights and the rights of others. We have bled too long once again not to see this fight through. Let a cry go out across this great country ALL HANDS ON DECK TO SECURE OUR FUTURE!
ENOUGH!
Dan in Alhambra California
p.s. it goes with saying that now is the time to make your voice heard... President Obama can not lead a progressive movement if he doesn't know an army is with him.