FROM KAREL TO OBAMA

KAREL IS A NEW TALK SHOW HOST WHOSE SAN FRAN-BASED SHOW IS BROADCAST WEEKDAYS ON GREEN960.COM WEEKDAYS AT 6:00PM EASTERN TIME. I THINK HE REALLY HITS THE NAIL ON THE JEAD WITH THIS LETTER TO OBAMA.

Dear President Obama



Greetings. I would like to speak to you today about your permeating theme of bipartisanship, particularly in regards to healthcare, but also on a broader scale.

I would also like to speak to you about the populist anger that many keep referring to in the country today; you see, they both are related.

Like you, I talk to many people for a living and then render an opinion. I’m a communicator, an entertainer that speaks to and hears from hundreds of thousands of Americans and they’re angry and frustrated, and the reason is so painfully clear; yet it is something no Democrat, yourself included, seems to be able to vocalize. They don’t want bipartisanship, they want leadership; right suffix, wrong word.

You see, Republicans, neocons, the Right has had their say, for eight years, and it destroyed us. Over those eight years they diid not practice bipartisanship, they practiced a mock dictatorship or coup. Democrats sat by and basically watched as the country was decimated; in 2006 when the country gave the Congress a Democratic majority, Nancy Pelosi, your speaker of the House, refused to impeach George W. Bush (we both know starting the proceedings doesn’t mean removal, but it’s the process that’s important) and Democrats continued to support and fund the wars which the people that sent them there opposed. We didn’t want bipartisanship then, either, we wanted resolutions.

The fact is, Republicans lost because We, the People, wanted them to. We were tired of their governance, their style, their lack of concern for the people and their sole focus on corporations and monied interests. We sent you, and others to Washington D.C. for change, we gave you a majority, and now we want that change. What we don’t want is rehashed ideas that only serve the Republican masters of money and power.

Take heath care in the United States. Poll after poll, and call after call to my show, make it very clear that people don’t want health insurance reform, they want access to health care. During your big push, you told us, We, the People, that 40,000 of us each year would die without access to health care. Many of us took the figure of 100 of us a day dying literally; in fact, when the horrible earthquake in Haiti hit, and the world responded, many of my listeners thought perhaps if the 40,000 dead in America from lack of health care ended up rotting and bloating on the White House lawn as people were in the streets of Haiti that maybe the world would care for our tragedy; maybe our Congress would respond.

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