Plea To Obama On Craig's List

My wife, who reads Craig's List every evening, happened upon this unusual post, addressed to President Obama. I was taken with not only with the passion of the writing but with the common sense appeal to Obama as to what being an American is all about. Please take a moment to read it. I hope that you are inspired to post a comment here or to the writer (see link below).

Dear Mr President

Reply to: comm-1047703020@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-02-23, 6:07PM

Mr President,
We are at odds. I don't believe the American people are ready to be under the control of and fed by the government. I agree we are in a mess and yes we became complacent and greedy and we have taken for granted our liberties, but we are Americans. We are people from all over the world who came to this soil to be free of government control via intervention of our lives.

We must be allowed to suffer the consequences of our actions so that we may get up and stand tall again. Your intentions, however noble, are in reality, a temporary postponement of the inevitable if we continue on this path.

If Americans fail they will get back up, we are a people of free thinkers and a determination beyond any people of any nation, we are those who came to America not to flee Government but to create one that is for the people by the people....

Wake up Mr President ...don't make this country a government by the government for the government, as you are doing so, we will perish as a nation if this continues, and we will become a people who cannot feed it self without the government.

Americans are on the verge of a meltdown. We will not stand for continuous failing of the government for its people. Americans will revolt and it will not be pretty.
And we will not stand for Government to have a say so in our daily lives. You are to lead by example not by control.
We will die to preserve the American Way of life, not the Government way of life.