Have you ever heard of Lou Pritchett? He is the former Vice President of Procter & Gamble (retired in 1989); he also wrote a very well recognized business book in 1995 entitled, “Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat”.

Lou Pritchett recently wrote an open letter to President Obama. He sent this letter to the New York Times who ignored the letter. It was only through exposure on the internet that Lou Pritchett’s letter received any acknowledgments.

In my opinion his letter is right on. It emphasizes concerns and fears that I believe many Americans are starting to develop about our current President and, more specifically, the agenda he seems to be pushing and what the long term implications of that agenda are.

What troubles me about how Lou Pritchett’s letter was treated by the New York Times, for all intensive purposes an extremely left wing publication, is that as our country made this supposed leap of “Hope” it has become apparent that anyone who doesn’t “Believe in Change” or at least, the kind of change being promoted by the current Administration, is wrong. In point of fact, as I watch the mainstream media go through the motions of the current events and topics, it is apparent that any discussions opposing the ideology of the current President and his Administration is quickly suppressed or worse, dismissed as irrelevant.

Being conservative, or event moderately conservative in our current political environment is viewed as a faux pas. People like Shaun Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh get castrated for giving their opposing points of view. Worse, the only defense that the Probama liberal lunatics seem to be able to muster up is, “Hey, we won”, or, “We’re still cleaning up after the last eight years”. Poor excuses and explanations without any sustentative merit.

I fear that if this mentality continues that we’ll be in jeopardy of destroying our core values as Americans and adopting a socialistic, suppressive environment which will be not result in prosperity for all but rather a few who know how to play politics (more on this concept in posts to come). The following are the words of Lou Pritchett in his open letter to President Obama:

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh’s, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Note: Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.

Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated “open letter.” “I did write the ‘you scare me’ letter. I sent it to the NY Times but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the internet and according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits.

Sound Off:
Do you think that the liberals in our political environment are suppressing opposing points of view? Are you scared by, or at least in certain respects agree with Lou Pritchett’s point of view?