Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Dear Mr. President,

In Egypt a million people in the streets demanding freedom and the end of Mubarek’s reign of terror and still you sit it out. The opposition beginning to coalesce around el Baradei, but you remain silent. Here’s an opportunity to do something positive, play a role in a long overdue uprising, advance the cause of liberty and democracy, shift the balance of power in a positive way in the Middle East, and you do nothing. El Baradei’s a man of principles, a man who, like you, won the Nobel Peace Prize (only he deserved it), a man who took on Bush’s lies and deceits and called them false, a man who denounces the horrors of Israel’s blockade, suppression and genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Here’s a leader who knows what justice, freedom and equality means and believes in them, who speaks the truth, who, like many of us, had high Hopes for you in the beginning, but, also like many of us, has been disillusioned with your meaningless rhetoric and unprincipled adherence to war and torture and cave-ins to the conservative right-wingers. Like many of us, he asks what you’re waiting for. Your silence is a farce, Mr. President, it makes you – and the U.S. – irrelevant and hypocritical, makes us look like we support authoritarian dictators – and unfortunately it’s true. Moral failure, Mr. President, a shocking betrayal of everything America is supposed to stand for. You know, things like freedom of speech, liberty, equal justice, fair play, all those things you don’t seem to give a damn about anymore since you got elected and switched to the Republicrat party. Mr. President, you’re not only a disappointment, you’re a national disgrace. I may have cast a vote for you back in 2008, but it was a big big mistake. You turned out to be not my president.