AN EMBARRASSMENT

November 7, 2017

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Congressman,

Re: Embarrassment

It’s an embarrassment. It’s enough of an embarrassment to have a president who goes out there into the world pretending to be strong when everyone knows he’s nothing more than a jellyfish. He lives underwater. He’s soft and vulnerable. So he stings. From beneath.

It’s still more of an embarrassment to have a president who goes out there and lies in front of the world. Transparent, thoughtless, shameless lies. Everyone knows he lies. He lies all the time, reflexively. How can any one else trust him? They smile politely. They shake his hand. But they don’t trust him. Why should they?

Why should they trust a man who responds to the shooting death of twenty-six of his innocent citizens in his country, in a church, one Sunday morning, praying, by asserting that “this is not about guns”? In front of the world. By saying, “this is not the right time” to talk about the incontrovertible fact that we’re awash in guns in this country—and not only hand guns, not only guns used for hunting and sport, but military-style assault rifles, designed exclusively to cause human deaths, as many as possible, and available to virtually anyone who wants one?

It’s an embarrassment to have this man out there in the world, whose mind is demonstrably so far removed from reality and truth. To have a man of this kind go out there and represent our country to the world.

I want to know, Congressman, how you can continue to support a man of this kind, in the office that he holds, without expressing one murmur of dissent, disagreement or disapproval?

(signed)

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.