Posted by
Charly Hornbrook in Florida on Friday, July 10, 2009 8:45:05 AM
I recently received this email by Lou Pritchett, a well-known public speaker who retired after a
successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and
Gamble.
Lou
Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed
author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers.
Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader
in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an
audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from
soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and
Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate
history.
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', and are 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