Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Ah but if you write a letter to the president, do you get a response worth damn? How else you supposed to voice your opinion him?
This is true of any President. It's the office, not the man. There's also the matter of practicality. Can one man respond to millions of letters and still govern a country?
There are political channels through which you can be heard, or make a difference via action. There are also legal and socially acceptable ways to protest that can achieve positive results. The recent progress of the LGBT community is modern-day proof of that. But this isn't one of those acceptable ways.
The bigger sadness with your threads is that you focus on the frivolous aspects of the Presidency too often, which obscures more meaningful faults in Washington that should garner our attention. I've tried - and failed - to convince you that I haven't voted Democrat very often in my life (I voted for Obama once, for example). So this isn't coming from a diehard liberal. I straddle the line depending on the issue. I just hate your broad-stroked approach that lacks all awareness for the larger picture as well as a critical eye for the sources you cite and topics you dote on.