A LETTER TO ELIZABETH WARREN

Dear Ms. Warren,

I will do as you request re. Scott Brown. But I must express my disappointment with President Obama. To me, there are two Obamas: the campaigner and the President. The former is articulate, inspirational, charismatic and identifies with the Middle Class. In 2008, the theme was "change." The latter, that is, the President, then surrounded himself with Wall Street cronies to such a degree that the transition from Bush to Obama was practically seamless. When it came to the health care debate, instead of starting the negotiations with Universal Health Care for all (single payer), even though he would never get that, you start the debate with the ideal that is a reality in every other developed western nation. He didn't even put any energy into the public option which, of course, was the only way to get the private insurance cartel to have to deal with the word, "competition." I could go through his first three years issue by issue. But my point is Candidate Obama RHETORIC vs. President Obama ACTION.

This year the candidate's theme is "fairness." While he waxes eloquently on the subject and champions the 99%, he makes a deal with the banksters that makes your skin crawl. In fact, if it weren't for Attorney General Schneiderman from New York and a few other attorneys general from around the country, Obama would have settled for even less than a slap on the wrist to the banking criminals. His attorney general, working, of course, with the President, has not brought a single criminal case against the Wall Street crooks who caused such horrendous destruction to the financial system and the economy. I can't decide.....Was the man and/or his family threatened? Or is the real Obama not what he says he is when he's out on the stump. I understand that the disloyal opposition was out to get him from day one. But how could a man of his intelligence spend more than three years trying to present a bipartisan result to the American people when it was obvious to mentally-challenged people that the Republicans had no interest in working with him on anything?

Thank God for you, Elizabeth Warren, who appears almost purely unique in saying what's on your mind and speaking the truth.

Cordially,

Charles Steinhacker
Great Barrington, MA
February 15, 2012