Letter to our President

The following is a letter from a Procter and Gamble executive to President Obama, followed by a letter from me to him. His name is Lou Pritchett.

Subject: A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO
PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.


You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America '
crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Response by Alex Lankhorst

AN OPEN LETTER TO LOU PRITCHETT

Dear Lou Pritchett,

You're an idiot.

Is it mandatory for a person to have corporate management experience in order to know how to run a country? If our country was run by corporate CEO's, who would bail us out when the country fails?

Do you have to know how to kill in war to understand that peace is always the best option?

Does the American public have to know more about you than that you were born an American without a silver spoon in your mouth; and worked and studied hard on your own (without help from your parent's friends and associates) to dig yourself out of poverty in order to give yourself every advantage you could possibly have in order to be successful?

Do you understand that intelligent people can actually EARN an Ivy League education by getting good grades and earning scholarships, and not by having a rich Ivy League alumni give you a recommendation in order to gain your admission?

Do you understand that President Obama spent ALL THE YEARS of his formative youth in American high schools and colleges and because he actually LIVED in another country besides America, he has actually experienced other cultures besides American culture which gives him a better GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE than someone who has never lived outside of the U.S.? And because he was born in America and lived most of his life in America, he is as much an American as you are? And he DOES NOT make others feel less an American than he is, just because that person may not have a white-European background?

Do you understand that because others oppose what you believe in does not make them anti-American or a terrorist or someone that hates America? It just means that they have a difference in opinion from you and different ideals than you. It also doesn't mean that they want America to fail. It means that have a different opinion in how to make America successful.

Do you understand that because we are now a global society, that we might actually LEARN SOMETHING from other countries in this world...including European countries? That what works there might actually work here too? Some conservatives seem to think that because democracy works here that it must work in all other countries. So, with that in mind, why shouldn't using what works for other countries actually work here?

Do you understand that the health care system in America is actually flawed? Does it not make sense then to actually want to change it in order to make it better for all Americans, not just the rich Americans who can afford good health care? If the American public continues to want to improve the health care system in America, and it comes up every few years, don't you think that there might actually be something to it? That maybe, just maybe, the American public understands that it needs to be fixed?

Do you understand that we are stewards of the one earth God has given us? Do you understand that in order to be good stewards of this earth that it is our responsibility to look for any possible ways to lessen our dependency on things like oil and coal that harm the environment. Wind mills and other renewable energy sources are the only way to be good energy stewards of our planet.

Do you understand that "the goose that lay the golden egg" has been taking advantage of the middle and lower classes since the beginning of time? Do you understand that these elite have been feeding of the middle and lower classes, when it's the middle and lower classes that keep the goose laying his golden eggs? These working class Americans are who drive the American economy. Taxing the rich (who can afford it) more than the middle and lower classes (who can't and who actually drive the economy) actually makes sense. (To everyone but the rich.)

Do you see that it's not just the democrats or President Obama in particular that are unwilling to listen to opposing points of view? When 100% of all Republicans vote against a health care bill, that should tell you who is NOT listening to opposing points of view. Both parties can be blamed for not being open-minded. President Obama has shown himself to be the most open-minded, bi-partisan President to come along in decades by actually holding formal meetings with the Republicans to listen to them and hear their concerns. Name one Republican president in the last 30 years who has done that.

Do you not actually listen to the news media? Between Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and new Fox News commentator, Sarah Palin, where is the liberal media you keep talking about? Because the REAL news channels actually report the real news, and it happens to NOT be a biased conservative point of view, does that actually mean it's a liberal media that's being easy on Obama?

Are you seriously talking about Obama "demonizing" the news media? Seriously? This is coming from someone whose party actually has posters made of Obama with devil horns and a Hitler mustache trying to portray our President as an evil person? This from a party who tried unsuccessfully to align Obama with Muslim terrorists and say that he wasn't even a U.S. citizen, even though any intelligent person would know that NO candidate could pass the scrutiny of our government in determining who may be eligible to even run for President of the United States.

Finally, you can't seriously talk about Obama "controlling" over "governing". This is an ideological difference between Republicans and Democrats. You see it as "controlling" whereas Democrats understand that some government intervention is necessary in providing for it's citizens.

Mr. Pritchett, your "open letter" to our President is nothing more than Republican scare tactics and propaganda. You believe that most Americans are ignorant and unable to see through your half-truths and outright lies. You simply have a difference in opinion on how our country needs to be governed. That's okay. As an American citizen you have the right to have your own opinion. However, that does not, I believe, give you the right to smear our President and say things about him that are outright lies. It does not give you the right to be Un-American.