Lou Pritchett letter to Obama

Sorry it took so long for me to find this.

The Truth:
Lou Pritchett is the author of this opinion and told TruthorFiction.com that he submitted this to the New York Times under the title of  "Obama, You Scare Me" but they never published it.    Pritchett did say that his article managed to make it to the world wide web where circulation went ballistic.  
 

Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble and wrote "Stop Paddling and Start Rocking the Boat" as well as numerous books and periodicals.
updated 05/29/09

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA 

Dear President Obama, 

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core. You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad. You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world. You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations. You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. Lou Pritchett; (www.loupritchett.com)

HB477

I sent this message via email to my representatives in the Utah House and Senate as well as the leadership and the bill's author. Could I encourage you to do the same? We don't want our rights- which were granted more than 200 years ago- taken away for a misguided reason. [I didn't include the color or increased size in my email :-)]

I am writing as a constituent/citizen of Utah who is against HB477. This bill is a poor choice of ways to try to accomplish what is purported to be accomplished with this bill. Government has the responsibility to stay transparent in their dealings. This was so important to our Founding Fathers that they included it in the Bill of Rights-the very first Amendment! Don't vote for this bill. It is unconstitutional and will not benefit Utah nor its citizens.

Respectfully,

Jennifer Summers
-Layton

Update on Integrated Card Services

This is an update--I have called Integrated Card Service another two times and they have yet to return my call. I left a detailed message with a supervisor. Every time I call, I am told that there is no one there in a supervisory position who can take my call. They are always out of the building or not at work today. The last time I called, I told the receptionist that this sounded fishy-that there was not one person who could help me. She told me there wasn't anyone there. What do these people do all day?????

Integrated Card Service

This post is a warning!

Steve and I have a business called Team 1 Performance. We use it to sell our toolboxes and other automotive accessories. We have a website on which we used to accept credit card orders. However, the credit card service was expensive and so Steve asked me to find another one. I looked online and asked for information from several companies. One site gave me pointers on what questions to ask and what some of the terms mean and what the charges mean. So I thought I had chosen one, but when I attempted to sign up they told me that they couldn't serve us. So I did some more calling to verify some information that I had written down and I decided on another provider. Before I signed up with them, Brian Peltel of Integrated Card Service called me. I told him that I had chosen another provider. He wanted to know what their terms were and if I would use his service if he could match their terms. I told him their terms and he said that he could match it. He told me the benefit of using Integrated Card Service was that they were such a big company. He signed me up over the phone and had me enter some information online.


We received our first bill in September and lo and behold, but we were being charged the same amount we had been charged by our previous credit card company. I called them back to find out why. Brian acted like he didn't know what I was talking about. I told him that in that case I wanted to close my account. He said that I couldn't, that I had agreed to a year service contract. After he sensed that I was going to stop using them, he told me that he could offer me those terms that I was talking about for the future. I took notes on this conversation with him and I told him I wanted him to email me a copy of the terms I was agreeing to. I also verified with him twice that the only charges I would be getting each month would be the minimum discount and the statement fee if we had no purchases. He agreed that those would be the only fees. I asked him if there would be any additional charges and he said no. Well, I get the email and it does not resemble at all what we had talked about on the phone. Not only that, but every month I have been charged some "additional fees" that are given no explanation. They state in the bill that if I want detailed information regarding the "additional fees" I would have to call them or go online. This has been happening every month since we began our service with Integrated Card Service.


Last week I tried to call Brian Peltel concerning the issue. As soon as he heard my name and company he hung up on me. So I called back and told the receptionist that I wanted to speak to Brian's supervisor. She explained that he wasn't in-that he had gone home sick. She took a message and told me he would get back to me. At the end of the following day I still hadn't heard from anyone and I called again. The receptionist said that the note was still on his desk and that he should be getting to it soon. I didn't hear from him. I called again today to find out why I have not been called. Again, the supervisor was not in, nor was anyone who could speak to me.


I am just blogging about this to warn anyone else who might be using or might be considering using Integrated Card Service. They are cheating me and lying to me. I don't believe they really care if they get back to me. I am not a huge client so it is easy for them to ignore me, but if you use them, I would suggest checking your statements to make sure that they match the terms that you have agreed to. Chances are that they don't.

Pork at its Finest

I received this nice little ditty from the people at Citizens Against Government Waste. First of all, not one of these expenditures is something which is for the benefit of the United States of America nor do they involve national issues. These are just pork projects plain and simple. What is wrong with you America (and the people you elect) to think that the American taxpayers need to pay for streetscape design, a ferry that benefits one city, or an Opera House renov that will be used by less than .1% of the population of the USA? Did anyone notice that the examples listed are all coming from Democrats? Why, we are already in debt by $1.3 trillion dollars, what is another couple of million?!

Tell us which of the following THUD pet projects YOU think is the most wasteful, irresponsible expenditure by lawmakers in the face of our nation’s $1.3 trillion deficit:

•$6,800,000 for streetscape design in 12 cities across the country. House appropriator Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) requested the largest amount, $1,000,000 for downtown Tacoma, Wash.

•$1,750,000 requested by House appropriator Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) for “The Wave,” a 2.7-mile downtown streetcar system in Fort Lauderdale that is estimated to cost $46 million per mile.

•$750,000 added by Reps. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) and Dina Tutus (D-Nev.) for the construction of a solar power array at the Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas. According to the organization’s website, $1 can pay for three individual meals, so for the cost of the solar power array, needy citizens could receive 2,250,000 meals.

•$500,000 for a new ferry service in Berkeley, Calif. Requested by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), these federal tax dollars will pay for the acquisition of two ferries, which would come equipped with solar panels.

•$150,000 added by Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.) for renovation of the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater, Mich. According to financial information provided in the opera house’s most recent annual report, charging an additional $3.56 per ticket would offset the cost of the renovations without burdening federal taxpayers, the vast majority of whom will never visit the Tibbits Opera House.

Politicians: Wake up!

I would like to know when politicians of all makes and models will wake up to the fact that you just can't hide anything anymore! In this age of technology, speed, and information dissemination why do these silly people think that they can hide any little indiscretion? Oh, I know, it is because they are too busy trying to get more--get more for themselves (in the form of political donations as well as personal donations), get more for their state (in the form of pork, usually!), and then whatever else that will put them in a better light/position to run and do it all over again. Even people that I deemed as basically honest are coming up with some lazy excuses as to what they did and did not know about campaign contributions and who gave them, then who received state contracts. One of my favorite newsletters is the one I get from Citizens Against Government Waste. I love the fact that they point out waste that comes in the form of pork, money procured for unimportant projects, money wasted on projects, and money procured for projects that shouldn't be federally funded. This nation is so far away from what the Founding Fathers intended in this regard. The Founding Fathers had no intention for the Federal Government to support so many of these pork projects. They were very concerned that the Federal Government play a limited role and that states' rights should control the majority of laws and influence. When can we get back to this? Not any time soon, apparently because politicians continue to think that they can somehow "hide" or mask indiscretions or even things that look bad from us, the general public, and spend us into oblivion.

What we already thought but now can see

The Truth About Sarah Palin

RUN GIRL RUN !!!!!!

Very interesting facts on two very different ladies. Sarah Palin

Democrat, Independent, or Republican....the second half of this

email should make all of us very sick, send this on .....

especially the second half......

READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!!

AND VERY DISTURBING!!!

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.

As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing

town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood

national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point:

Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats,

because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.

I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.

If you've read this far ...........now, open your eyes

First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the

President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the

President and White House Social Secretary)

4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the

President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the

President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)

10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of

Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and

Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)

16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for

Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)

17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of

Correspondence For The First Lady)

18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the

Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of

Correspondence for the First Lady)

(This is community organizing at it's finest.)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

FRIENDS.....THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED

SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE?????

AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL....MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK

TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????

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Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because

the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry USA !

What can I say?? . . .