Dear Mr. Obama,

By this time next week, I and everyone else will call you "Mr. President".  You are assuming an office with truly awesome power, weighty responsibilities, a nation in crises, and considerable support from a hopeful nation.  While we are a generally well informed people, with high levels of education and compassion for our fellow citizens, we are also in some ways unchanged from our forefathers.  We mistrust politicians, for we have been taken advantage of. We are frustrated with our personal situation, feeling put upon by unseen hands.  We wish to blame others, although in most cases our ills are self prescribed. We complain much, but most of us are willing to work hard to further that which we hold dear. We wish to be saved, but have difficulty understanding what safety looks like, or just how we are to be saved. 

Unlike our forefathers, we have lost much of our resolve, succumbing to a combination of incomprehensible regulations and false help from government handouts. We are somewhat dazed by recent events, and like a punch-drunk prizefighter, we are wobbling aimlessly. We still have great strength, but have had the wind knocked from us.

Teddy Roosevelt once described the power of the Presidency as a "Bully Pulpit". You will soon use the power of your office, in concert with the power of our many elected representatives, to offer up many solutions and actions designed to save our national economy and address our nations other ills. But, of more importance than programs and handouts, I entreat you to please use your "Bully Pulpit" to inspire us, give us direction, tell us we are hurt but will quickly recover if we so choose.

Tell us it is good to believe in ourselves.  Challenge us do great things, and tell us what those great things are. You must lead, not manage.  You must spend your political capital on the nation, and not on yourself or your party, and encourage others to follow your example.

It is said by some that our nation is failing, and will never again be great.  I disagree, and I believe most of America's citizens agree with me.  If we do not choke to death in our bureaucracy, or unnecessarily battle the ghosts of our fears; we will use our mechanism of freedom to achieve many more great things, for many generations to come.

I wish you the very best as you assume the office,

Larry D. McGee Broker The Berkshire Group, Realtors 3801 E. Florida Avenue Suite 400 Denver, Colorado, 80210 US	Work: 303-513-1436 Fax: 303-953-5390 larry@tbgdenver.com http://brokerisms.theberkshiregroup.com
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