RSSArrogance Personified: “I Am the President!”
Gene Lalor | February 26, 2010
An Open Letter to the President of the United States 
February 26, 2010
Dear Mr. President:
I’ve always felt that when you invite someone to your home that you extend more than the basic courtesies to your guests. You offer them a drink, pre-prandials, serve dinner and try to make them comfortable.
Granted, Thursday’s bi-partisan meeting on Obamacare, your Health Care Summit, was not a social event but you were hosting an official gathering of some significance and the most basic proprieties should have been extended to your invited guests.
I beg to inform you that you didn’t do that.
I may disagree with invitees to my home on one or both of those two topics never to be broached in mixed company, politics and religion, which happen to be my favorite topics, but I would never intentionally adopt to myself the role of dominant speaker nor dodge specific questions nor employ a haughty, dismissive tone.
I beg to inform you that you did all that as well.
Most importantly, I would never say to my guests anything approximating your most egregious, insulting remarks nor interrupt them to say, “I am the homeowner, so I don’t count my time” in discussions.
That happens to be a paraphrase of your words spoken during the second half of your Health Care Summit at your current home.
What you actually said as you tried to squelch dissent and dominate the discussion, was, “I am the president, so I don’t count my time.” See and hear the video of your rude, finger-pointing correction here: http://bit.ly/aXLnDP
Fortunately for you, none of your buddies in the mainstream media will pick up that line.
It may not be a teaching of the Qu’ran but the Bible instructs its readers in Proverbs 16:18 that “Pride Goeth Before Destruction,” four words which shouldn’t need explanation for the most intelligent, wisest, best educated, most perspicacious, most intuitive president in the history of this damned country.
I’ll explain them anyway since I am a man of the cloth and it’s my duty.
In sum, the Bible is warning that when one is so enamored of oneself, so full of himself, so detached from his audience that he feels the need to assert his position and pull rank rather than engage in the necessary give and take as during Thursday’s critical forum on Obamacare, he’s headed for a fall.
I wouldn’t want that to happen and there are better ways to demonstrate your power, if you catch my drift.
This letter is not intended as criticism as much as it is intended as constructive advice to help you avoid such prideful exhibitions in the future. I fully understand you were speaking extemporaneously, for the most part, and without your trusted teleprompter, but I must say you didn’t come across very well.
Best regards,
(Rev.) Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr. former pastor Trinity United Church of Christ
P.S. When do I get that invite to your new pad you promised? Hasn’t the smoke settled enough yet?
P.P.S. I’m attaching a picture in case you’ve forgotten what I look like–after spending 20 long years in my church! 
P.P.P.S. God damn you and God damn America if you forget about me!
P.P.P.P.S. That summit thing was at the White House, wasn’t it?
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