Pointless letter to George W. Bush

[solarbird]

Since this one isn't going to be published, I might as well post it in public, rather than behind a friendslock.

President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC

Dear President Bush:

Stop it. Withdraw your support for the marriage amendment.

Please.

I know you're not going to listen, I know you'll never even see this letter, I know that even if you did, you wouldn't care.

But I'm trying anyway. It's even more futile than Chaplin's attempt to stop World War II, but it takes a lot less time than making a movie, so I have no excuse not to try.

Stop it. Tell your fundamentalist attack dogs to back off. To drop it.

Please.

My partner Anna and I lost a friend today. She lost two. She's a conservative evangelical Christian and a big supporter of yours. We've been friends for years. She's very happy about your amendment.

We aren't friends anymore.

This is going to be repeated across the country as you - a self-proclaimed "uniter, not a divider" - tear friends and families apart.

Stop it. Do not make us the scapegoat and distraction for your re-election campaign.

Please.

I used to vote a Republican. I was a local Republican delegate for two elections. (Forbes in '96 and McCain in 2000.)

I'll never vote Republican again. I can't. Not after this.

Stop it. Take it back; say there's no good way to make it work. Do something to stop this disaster.

You still can.

But I don't think you will.

It is a very sad day for America.


Sincerely,


(me)

Comments

[avram]

McCain, huh? As far as Bush is concerned, that makes you as bad as the Democrats. Maybe worse.

[solarbird]

Yeah, I know. I wasn't going to vote for either - I tend to vote Libertarian for president. I voted for Nader last time just because the idea of Greens with matching funds was too tempting - in the "comedy" department - to resist. Otherwise, I'd have voted Libertarian again, because honestly - I couldn't think of a worse scenario than the Democrats deciding that the way they also win is by nominating religious conseratives.

(And Gore won our state overwhelmingly anyway, so no shit about that plskthx.)

[avram]

Yeah, I voted for the asshole back in, um, I think it was ’96. Clinton’s reelection was secure, and NY was gonna go Dem anyway. But never again.

[wrog]

It's this weird looking-glass world in which Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich are actually moderates.

And now I find myself cheering for Orrin Hatch. That's how fucked up things are.

[solarbird]

McCain, by the way, has come out against the amendment. Mmmmmm, sanity.