My. Open Letter To President Obama - Unmasking a Pathological Liar

Dear Mr. President - If you feel the world is turning against you take heart It is clear that you have never had to share the stage with a pathological liar whose idea of fun is to don a state trooper uniform and stop hapless drivers and if they are female to intimidate them This is the America you caught sight of as you grew to adulthood Last night it hit you head on I saw the classic facial responses One said I've been 'buked and I've been scorned The other said I was blind but now I see and did not refer to salvation  but to the pathological liar standing to your right Mr. President it is your peculiar destiny to carry a mantle no less heavy than that which Lincoln wore You face a person Satan if there was a Satan could not design with more precision I see you in the aftermath of last night's debate  shaking your head and saying something like what Gram Parsons said in  Hickory Wind -  that trouble is real What you saw is that all the efforts your campaign made to plumb Mitt were getting at the truth and that the truth is much worse that you thought You were not just drawing a cartoon you were getting at the very flip side of of the relativism that we must all grasp to move forward You Sir know that tolerance and helpfulness democracy and non-idolatry are the only things that speak  to our condition if we would move the world forward   Last night you endured the worst that can be thrown at you from a man for whom tolerance is a chimera and an impossibility  and helpfulness is parsimonious if necessary and democracy is a thing to be manipulated or bought and idolatry of money and power and self is standard That this man is also a pathological liar may at first conceal that at bottom it is his rejection of these values that makes it mandatory that he not attain power Last night you took his measure  and were shocked Today you see with clearing eye the challenge You must shock him into revealing who he really is You or Joe Biden must raise the issues you thought  possibly unfair I shall copy here your agenda  It will unmask him Ask about his cop impersonation and bullying Ask about his relationship with Paul Singer and other vulture capitalists Ask about his offshore accounts and other hidden deals Ask about his move hard right  Ask about his views on SCOTUS Ask him about  his out-sized IRA  Ask him about his Neo-Con Bush associations  Ask him about the casualties of his Bain years Ask about his foreign investments in bad debt and his squeezing of folk in other countries Ask what his 47 percent speech says of tolerance Ask what it says of helpfulness Ask what it says about democracy Take heart Mr. President To win you must unmask a pathological liar Do not be deluded Do not be afraid to call him that Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store