Dear President Obama,

Are you a first and foremost a concerned son who witnessed his dying mother’s struggle with insurance companies, and in the course of your life and career, used this as motivation to get into a position to fix the problem?

Or, are you a politician first and foremost, who would stoop to any level in your thirst for power, including using your dying mother’s struggle with insurance companies to quench your thirst ?

From your acceptance speech in Denver, bold mine:

Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don’t, you’ll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.

During your campaign, a lot of the conversations that I had with friends, family and coworkers when I was employed, centered around health care. The story of your Mom’s struggle came up often. Story telling is a powerful way to draw people in. It allows people to let down their guard, and allow the story teller to present a situation for the listers to consider.

In the case of politics, I will venture to say that the guard that most people put up to politicians is one of cynicism. After all politics is about power. In this country the power resides in the vote of the American people to grant the decision and leadership role to a politician. Too often though the power is granted, and then the people are forgotten in the name of campaign cash.

In your role as candidate through story telling, you presented yourself as a concerned son, who witnessed the insane struggle of a dying human being fighting with insurance companies.

In your role as President, who was granted the power by the American people to lead on issues, including health care, it appears that you’re
changing your role from concerned son, to self-serving politician who is more concerned with power then the will of the American people.

It’s your actions and deeds Mr. President which leads me to my question; are you a concerned son who is as a politician that used your mother’s story to break the wall of cynicism in order to get the power to do the right thing with health care, or are you a politician who in your thirst for power will do anything, including using your mother’s story, to quench your thirst?

The moral of a story comes at the end, and Mr. President, you still have time and the choice to write it for health care reform. I hope that you will write one that is a change I can believe in.

Regards,
Millineryman