Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-dum

Dear Mr. President,

The latest Times/CBS poll shows you’re in trouble, in a dead heat with Mitt. 58% said you haven’t delivered on your 2008 campaign pledge for change. Well, duh! Any fool can see that. Mitt’s even tied with you on the question of who would do a better job dealing with terrorism and national security. Maybe they just don’t get the drone wars or the morality of Kill Lists and assassination of Americans without a trial or commando raids into countries we’re not at war with. Maybe they don’t understand the logic of shipping bales of Ben Franklins, U.S. taxpayer dollars, to Afghanistan for Karzai and his cronies to rip off and put in their bank accounts in Qatar where they’ll live in luxury after we pull out and the Taliban takes over in 2014. Maybe people are pissed off that you bailed out the Banksters of Wall Street and left everyone else to fend for themselves. Or maybe they’re pissed off that you extended the massive Bush tax cuts for the rich. Maybe they’re pissed off that the debate you and Mitt are having is not about whether to give more tax breaks to the rich, just a matter of how much: Mitt’s plan gives them about $70,000 per year while yours only gives them $20,000 a year. Meanwhile, the city of Stockton, which filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy this month, has the highest foreclosure rate in the country; they’ve cut police by 20%, firefighters 30% and other city workers by 40% and there’s no bailout for them. The police no longer respond to calls unless there’s blood on the ground according to one resident. Homeless shelters are now at 160% of capacity, domestic violence has soared—reported cases quintupled in the past 4 years—and the violence is getting worse. “People have lost their sense of hope and stability and with that comes a lot of anger,” says Joelle Gomez, executive director of the Women’s Shelter. Stockton is not an isolated case either; it’s happening all over the country and you’re not doing a damned thing about it. As one person in the Times/CBS poll said “Obama promised a lot of promises and he failed at every one of them without exception.” See why I think you’re in trouble? Your slick lies got you into office once but people are on to you now and they’re pissed. They don’t like Mitt but you’ve you betrayed them badly so they’ll try someone else even if they know he’s going to be a disaster too. But there is an alternative to Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum and that alternative is the Green Party. Jill Stein for president!