I sent the letter shown below to President Obama today via email. During the next few days, I will also send copies to some media outlets, senators and representatives.

Our fine country is in an uproar over this healthcare thing. There are misstatements all around.

Just the other day, Mr. Obama told us the AARP has endorsed his healthcare proposal. The AARP says not so. Mr. Obama told us your doctor might remove your tonsils when not necessary as a way to get higher fees. Not so either because primary doctors do not perform surgery.

Then, there is the matter of just who are the town hall questioners. The young daughter of New Hampshire Obama supporter Kathleen Manning Hall read a question that a girl her age probably wouldn't even think about. At another town hall, a woman posing - you know, lying - as a doctor and lucky enough to find Sheila Jackson Lee without the phone in her ear, interjected a question (video). It turns out the fake doctor, Roxana Mayer, was an Obama state delegate.

It's wrong to let this deplorable situation continue.

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August 15, 2009

The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

Don't listen to pundits. Listen to me.

I write to offer two suggestions for resolving all current concerns about the future of our healthcare.

1. Post the final version of the bill on the internet before you sign. Then, wait 30 days before you make it official by signing.
2. Use your veto power if polls, independent of the Obama administration, show at the end of thirty days we the people do not want the proposed program.

From news reports, I can't be certain you are sincere in your stated belief that the proposed program is good for us. And, I also believe that, as our servant, you have an ethical obligation to follow our wishes in good faith on matters unrelated to national security.

I am one of the angry white men we hear about on the news. I am a reclusive 71 year old stubborn cynic just hanging around waiting to die. But, I want my death to be either nature's choice or my choice. I do not want my death to come early because the government healthcare program does not have enough money to keep me alive as it will for people 25 years old.

Too, I resent very strongly paying for the health care provided to people I don't even know and might not like if I did know them although I realize that to some extent I do that now through the insurance I purchase. It is unjust that I contribute toward a new lung for someone who has allowed tobacco to shut down his or her birth lung.

I don't know with certainty but I suspect a lot of citizens, especially old people like me, share my thoughts.

There is so much confusion because of misstatements from both sides of the argument. Only real transparency will put us, the American people who are suppose to be in charge, at ease.

I genuinely believe it will be regrettable for all of us if you are perceived as a president who is stubbornly hell-bent on winning.

Respectfully yours,

Larry Croft
Snowflake, Arizona

Copies to selected: media outlets, senators and representatives