Mr. President Elect Barack Obama
In my 89th year of life, I can safely say that since I first started to vote - I believe it was for the First term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - until this November 5, 2008, there have been hardly a handful of Presidents truly worthy of the Office, and you I believe will be one more to add to that small group.
At my age I know not whether I shall be here to partake of another presidential election, but I am proud to say that I have cast my first, and possibly my last, presidential votes for two of the greatest, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Obama - and I am confident you'll not let me down.
You have been left more problems than have been left to any President-elect since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in addition to a country that has been ideologically divided for several decades, winding up during the administration of George W. Bush of one that has revolutionized the government provided by the founding fathers. The Bush administration ignored the system of "checks and balances" provided in the Constitution, ignored statutory law, violated international law, violated the constitutional rights of American citizens, and creating what he thought was an immunity to a new statute that he signed into,law by adding a "signing statement."
My support for your candidacy came not from your brilliant oratory skills, but for the content of your chosen subject matter; from your educational background, career choices, sound judgment in your choice of advisors, and above all else your familiarity with the greatest document of democracy ever written, the Constitution of the United States of America.
I look forward to January 20, 2009, the day of your inauguration, and it is my hope that one statement you will make will be, "I, as President of the United States of America, will restore the Constitution of the United States in every facet of this government and it will once again be the Supreme Law of the Land, as stated in Article VI thereof, to wit, 'This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made pursuant thereof . . . . shall be the supreme law of the Land. . . . . ."
Your first order of business will no doubt be the setting of priorities among all that need immediate attention, and that you, at the earliest possible hour address the American people to announce those priorities and sow the American people the first it of transparency ion governance in decades, for that it is how, at the bottom can be the moving force for those who place themselves at the top.
It would be appreciated if this blog venue were kept on for those of us who support your intentions to help express them to others, and to be aware of what others are saying that may influence my support for something I might not have thought of.
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