Below is letter written to Michele Obama by Becky Smith.
Dear Michelle,
On the day that your husband was elected, you said that you had never
been proud of the United States until that day. For the last three and a
half years, I have been observing your husband and you, and I feel that
it is time I share my thoughts with you. The day your husband was
elected was the first time I was ever ashamed of this country, and today
I am even more ashamed.
I was ashamed then because your husband was not elected because he
was the best qualified to do the job, or because he was the most
intelligent, or even because anyone really thought he could get anything
worthwhile done. The reason your husband was elected, the only reason,
is because of the color of his skin. Your husband was chosen by the
Democratic Party to be their “token black”, and that is the shame of the
American public. We deserve better than a community organizer who seems
to look down on his fellow Americans while bowing to an Arab leader. We
deserve a president who was thoroughly vetted by his party and the
media, not someone whom the DNC now admits was never even eligible for
the job. There are many other men, Black, Hispanic, of Asian descent,
Native American, and even Caucasian who are many times more qualified
and eligible to be the president. If he had even a shred of self
respect, Barack would resign and convince Joe Biden to do so as well, so
that someone with a backbone could fix the mess your husband (NOT
George Bush) has made much worse.
Your husband said he would bring unity to the country; instead, he
has brought class warfare and fanned the flames of racism by saying that
his son would look like Travon Martin. When the Pharisees asked Jesus
what the greatest commandment was, he replied, “‘you shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
mind.’” “This is the greatest foremost commandment.” “The second is
like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” “On these two
commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”(Matt.22:37-40 NAS).
Notice that there is no modifying clause in the second commandment “You
shall love thy neighbor as yourself.” NOT “You shall love your neighbor
as yourself, so long as his skin is the same color as yours or he does
not make more money than you.” In our home, race is not an issue;
everyone is welcome and treated respectfully. My mother raised me right;
she taught me these verses and the golden rule “Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.” I have lived this way all my life and
never judge others; it is God’s job to judge, not mine. There is a big
difference between loving the person and accepting the sin; I can love
the person and still hate the things they do. The media was quick to
condemn Sarah Palin’s daughter for getting pregnant (or was it because
she chose to have the baby?), but at least she owned up and took
responsibility for her actions, which is something your husband has said
publicly he would not make his daughters do in that same situation. No,
he would rather have them murder their baby should they be so
shortsighted as to get pregnant before they were ready.
Make no mistake here, please; through Christ, I love you and your
family, but I hate what Barack has done to this wonderful country of
ours. He has no need to apologize for an accidental burning of the Quran
anymore than they would apologize for a deliberate burning of the Bible
or our Constitution. In fact, as a nation, there is nothing he needs to
apologize for on our behalf, but instead much he needs to apologize to
us for. He needs to apologize to us for his blatant disregard for the
Constitution, the very foundation of our government, and the freedoms
guaranteed to us by that document. I have family members who fought to
protect that document and what it stands for; yet you and your husband
treat it like toilet paper for all the respect you show.
You are fond of quoting the Scripture in Luke that tells us that “To
those to whom much has been given, from them much shall also be
expected”, but then you take it out of context and tell us that means
that the federal government has the right to take what one man earns and
give it to the man who sits on his butt all day doing nothing. Sorry,
but I do not think that is what Christ meant when he said “take care of
the widows and orphans.” He also told us that God loves a cheerful (or
willing) giver. He did not want to force us to do what we so willingly
do out of love. In case you had not noticed, when there is a crisis
(i.e. Katrina) the American people pull together to help each other
faster and better than the government (i.e. FEMA) could.
The recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual
mandate of the “Affordable” Care Act was equally shameful and has added
one hundred-fold to the stress of my daily life. Stress that was not a
part of my life until Barack took the office that by rights does not
belong to him. My husband has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treatments are
expensive, and how long now before the committee decides that because
he is not a “productive citizen” he cannot access the treatments he
needs to stay alive? I clench my teeth at night wondering if he will be
here when our daughter (now fifteen) walks down the aisle on her wedding
day. When I had a heart attack last year, it was a Catholic-run
hospital that picked up the greatest portion of the cost, allowing us to
make payments on the rest when we could, not the government. Through
the contraception mandate, Obamacare will shut down that hospital and
hundreds like it, leaving people like me to fall between the cracks of
your “perfect healthcare”.
I am also ashamed that the first family sees the Presidency as a
lottery they won (how many vacations do you need in a year, really?) I
have not had a job in two years, and our family would love to have a
vacation in Europe, just one, someday. Yet your family has taken over
seventeen vacations, at my last count, on the taxes people like me have
paid. So, in effect, the middle class of America has been paying for you
and your entourage of secretaries and secret service personnel to run
around the world, shopping and sightseeing, when we cannot afford to go
visit relatives who live in another state. Your husband’s policies have
not created any jobs worth talking about, but they have kept businesses
from creating jobs. Even a low-paying job would allow us the luxury of
going to visit family.
So tell me Michelle, just what are you proud of? Are you proud of the
fact that you are living in the White House because people did not want
to be called racist? Or perhaps you are proud that your husband has
chipped away at the civil liberties of the American taxpayers? Or
perhaps you are proud of the race riots your husband instigated when he
said that if he had a son he would look like Travon Martin, instead of
keeping his mouth shut and letting the police handle the situation? The
truth (whatever it is) will come out. I do not think there is anything
that your husband has “accomplished” while in office that you should be
proud of. Oh wait, I forgot all that golfing he has done that must have
improved his game; I guess you can be proud of that.
In Christ Always,
Becky Smith
