Dear President Obama:

First of all, I offer you my congratulations on your historic election.  As pundits surmise the reasons behind the strategic failure of the Clinton and McCain campaigns, they seem to leave out the number one reason:  the brilliance of yours.

I am an independent Colorado voter originally from Illinois who has followed your rise for some time now.  I have devoured your books and stood and cheered from my living room after more than one of your speeches.  I happen to agree with your moderate Hamiltonian theories on the economic role of government (although I do worry that your voting record does not seem to match those theories).  Also, your pledge to trigger an alternative energy revolution is something Americans on both sides of the aisle can/should get excited about given its four-pronged effect on job creation, education reform, stability in the Middle East, and environmental concerns.  Finally, I do not agree with many conservatives’ assertion that you lack enough experience or with those who discount your eloquent speech.  For the most important tool of any leader is the ability to inspire the masses.  I believe all of these elements of a Barack Obama presidency carry the potential to build strong pillars for the future of America.

Regarding the religious rhetoric of politicians, I could not agree more with your assessment of the Democrats’ recent failures to “tap into the moral underpinnings of the nation.”  However, I am not impressed with the politically convenient version of Christianity which you now so boldly profess.  In your book, The Audacity of Hope, your immature understanding of your new religion becomes painfully evident.  While discussing your support for civil unions of same-sex couples, you state your unwillingness to “accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”  This statement assumes these two passages contradict one another.  They do not.  You also grossly miscalculate Christianity’s entire teaching on homosexuality to hinge on one line in Romans.  Reality is far from this ridiculous oversimplification.  In your chapter on Family, you fully recognize this unit as the bedrock of civilization.  You also acknowledge the destruction caused by the sexual revolution for almost 50 years and the crumbling families left in its wake.  Yet, you now support the further desecration of the family unit by, in effect, redefining marriage.

One of the most brilliant paragraphs from you book is found on page 63.  It concludes with the following:

"I believe in the power of culture to determine both individual success and social cohesion, and I believe we ignore cultural forces at our peril.  But I also believe that our government can play a role in shaping that culture for the better - or for the worse."

The result of this force in today’s relentless culture cannot be overstated.  We have created a culture that can somehow trump an infinitely powerful motherly instinct to protect and instead convince a woman that it is a good idea to hire an assassin to crush her child’s skull and/or brutally chop up his/her body parts.

It is you who claims the following words “are our starting point as Americans:”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

During your campaign, you also repeatedly said “we must protect those most vulnerable among us.”  Furthermore, “fatherhood starts at conception” and “we can work together to reduce the number of abortions.”

Mr. Obama, how can you utter/write these truths with a straight face?

While all this sounds great, let's look at how well you back up these statements:

• You voted four times against the Illinois Infants Born Alive Protection Act, even when not a single one of your liberal colleagues voted against a carbon copy bill at the federal level.
• You have made very clear that "the first thing I will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."  This evil law will wipe out every state restriction on abortion ever enacted, thus undoubtedly causing abortions to skyrocket.  Furthermore, it is a blatant attack on the freedom of pro-life doctors, as well as the Catholic health care system.
• You have repeatedly made the incredibly sad statements of “I don’t want my daughter punished with a pregnancy” and “A woman shouldn’t have to live with the burden of a child.”  (True Christians weep at these statements.)
• Your so-called “plan for reducing the number of abortions” relies on contraception, which has been proven to increase abortions, not decrease.  Even the Roe v. Wade opinion recognized the need for more abortion providers given our ever-increasing contraceptive culture.
• Your cabinet is quickly shaping up to resemble a cast of "Who's Who Among Leading American Abortionists."