An open letter to President--now President-elect--Obama

Dear President, now President-elect Obama:

Congratulations, sir, on your win yesterday. It's been a lot of work but you earned it and your nation needs it.

Now, since you've got a mandate and you only really have 2 years, at most, of any real strength and power due to your "lame duck" status and the fact that the 2016 election will start in earnest in 2014, you need, sir, to "swing for the fences" and go for all you can get.

Besides working to kill the NDAA and restoring habeus corpus and officially killing presidential "signing statements", you should make a grand, sweeping, big, important speech calling on the world to end war and the possibility of war and wars. No one else is in quite the position you are in, Mr. President, and this call would be better heard and received from you more so than from anyone else--likely on the entire planet.

You are still running the richest and most powerful nation in the world and no one has, at this time, the pulpit you occupy. Please, Mr. President, call now for the end of war in our lifetimes and push--hard--to shrink what your own nation spends on war and tools of war. We can still be strong but we can also bring the world back from the brink of war across the world. The people of the planet can no longer afford this ugly, stupid, killing luxury.

Thank you and good luck to you and our nation,

Kevin Evans
Kansas City, Missouri