Truthful, honest, trustworthy, responsible, and respectful, qualities we all admire in a person. Personal traits we would expect in the President of the United States but that seems to be missing.

Watching the “staged” Health Care Summit with President Obama “acting” as moderator-in-chief it was disheartening to see the leader of our country present himself in such an unpresidential manner. His pompous, casual, and offhanded demeaning comments, along with his general body language, showed how disrespectful and condescending he is toward anyone who doesn’t hold his point of view. It was apparent that he isn’t open minded and that the summit was a public relations event to drum up support from his minions who don’t truly know or understand the complexity of the issues regarding health care.

It’s time for the President and the democrats to truly be bipartisan and scrap their version of the health care bill and do what is in the best interest of ALL OF THE PEOPLE who they represent and draft a real bipartisan bill.

(Submitted for publication to The Lansing State Journal on February 26, 2010)
(Printed in the Lansing State Journal March 18, 2010)