To: The Office of the President of the United States
Fax: 202.456.2461
From: Robert Sandy and Family
Fax: 224.218.2254
15 July 2009
Mr. President,
I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with your continued mishandling and borderline mistreatment of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. My entire family were ardent supporters of Secretary Clinton's during the primaries, but happily, enthusiastically even, transferred our support to you once it was clear that she lost the nomination. It was an amazing thing for every Democrat to behold your mutual truce and budding friendship after the nomination process was completed. But, we are learning now that this was all a formula cooked up by the likes of Rahm Emmanuel and others in order to sideline Secretary Clinton. I, well we, my mother and partner in particular, are sickened to learn of these internal machinations. And we grow increasingly angry by your intentional marginalization of the only other Democrat in the world with a name that means anything at home or abroad.
Couple your treatment of her with your continued missteps with the economy, gay issues, and international situations, particularly the Iranian question, and we are finding ourselves less and less enthusiastic about your Presidency. It is sad for me to write that since I stood in Grant Park bawling like a child the night you won. I hate to have that feeling diminished, and so quickly.
If things do not change I promise you there is going to be a grass roots effort to undermine your reelection bid. Your brazen misogynistic approach to the woman who almost became President, despite her working hard and loyally for you, says much about your character Mr. President, and none of it good.
Cheers,
Robert Sandy
Below you will find links to several prominent articles highlighting my points here
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-13/obamas-other-wife-1/
http://news.aol.com/article/hillary-clintons-foreign-policy-clout/572211
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/hillary-clinton-after-weeks-on-sidelines-retakes-foreign-policy-lead-with-warning-to-iran.html
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I suppose I can understand why some people would be disappointed in President Obama's performance to date. However, is it folly to believe that Secretary Clinton would have followed the same trajectory on the issues? Is that not the way things are done in Washington: campaign away from the center and after election gravitate toward the center to garner support for one's agenda? It's disappointing to see a thoughtful, intelligent person not give the President at least a year before calling for his removal.
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