Dear President Bush,
My opinion on your presidency isn't that important since I get my news primarily from The Daily Show. I'll catch an occasional Wolf Blitzer Report too, but that's only if Comedy Central is playing a MadTV rerun I've already watched. I saw the video of Nicholas Berg's execution on Tuesday night, and it was undoubtedly the most horrific thing I've ever seen. It's hard for me to imagine hating someone so much as to kill them, regardless of the method. Although terrorism has always existed around the world, 9/11 got America directly involved in the fight. The situation in Iraq is now a complete mess - no weapons of mass destruction found, soldiers dying daily, this apparent "freedom" without a strong government to enforce it, and now the recent prisoner abuses. You didn't listen to the weapons inspectors or anything the U.N. said, and you started a war that never needed to be fought in the first place. We know for a fact that North Korea has weapons of mass destruction - why not go after that spoke of the "axis of evil" instead? We obviously haven't solved the terrorist problem, nor will we ever if we continue creating reasons to hate America. Even if you physically got rid of every major terrorist leader on the planet, you have burned an negative image of America into minds around the world. The long term effects will certainly come back to haunt us.
On the home front, the idea of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages is among your worst. Whether someone is for or against it, the Supreme Court needs to decide the correct path on this issue, and they need to do it soon. This will possibly be the major civil rights battle of my lifetime. I know where you're coming from - I used to call things "gay" as a derogatory term and think homosexuality was morally wrong. Then I became friends with several gays and lesbians, and their faces appeared in my head whenever I heard discrimination because of their sexual orientation. My perception completely changed after spending time with them. Marriage is a joke in modern society - people rush in and out of it, and the permanence of vows is repeatedly broken. If you're going to start talking about the sacredness of family and marriage, start with the divorce rate. If you continue seeking your constitutional amendment, don't stop there - break the separation of church and state and change the "all men are created equal" part of the Declaration of Independence while you're at it.
These are only my opinions, but I just wanted to let you know why I disagree with your domestic and foreign policies. The truth is that many people agree with you, according to the callers I heard on Rush Limbaugh today while stuck in traffic. Many people could give valid arguments contradicting what I just wrote, and I respect that. It's fortunate that the presidential election is only six months away - it couldn't have come at a more divided time. There are a few out there who think that it doesn't matter who sits in the White House; that everyone's the same. You successfully proved them dead wrong - would Al Gore have invaded Iraq? We'll see how America feels in November. I think you know who I'll be voting for.
Wednesday, May 12 at 9:07 PM
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