AUGUST 28, 2006 --

Excellency:

Lonely Pamphleteer Review has, I believe, a few clicksters in Iran, this month, and I was wondering if you might be one of them. If so, I hope you liked the photos of the Connecticut Agricultural Fair among others. And please don't hesitate to participate in the LPR poll. (Also, let me know if you would like to order LPR merchandise and some of my photocards.)

Mr. President,

Last night, I skimmed the very long letter that you sent to President Bush, last May and is posted on several websites. I could not help but notice that you share,perhaps more with Rush Limbaugh than with President Bush, the belief that Liberalism is a failure. Were it not for your criticism and belief in God, I would have recommended that you submit your
long letters to the New York Review.

Mr. President,

Clearly LPR is too small to be honored to have a conversation with you, including photo op, the next time you speak at the United Nations, notwithstanding your apparent misgiving of international organizations (another point of concurrence with American
conservatives).

In the event, then, that you should be interviewed by Andrea Mitchell, of NBC News, I would be grateful if you raised the matter of 29.99% interest rates on credit cards, along with the problem about Iranian funds still frozen here.

I do not presume to advise you, but if an Iranian bank issued credit cards with a 5.9% interest rate, it might be a plus in your relations with the American people. And if you released oil sending the price of gas way down where it really belongs, you would certainly be striking a populist blow for the common man. Please feel free to refer to Federalist 57 when you make populist statements. The first half
of the document would be of great interest to you, including the advice that leaders should stay close to the people and serve the common good.

I see that you were born October 28, 1956, the day before the start of the 1956 Suez campaign in the War Against the Existence of Israel., At the time, I was a junior in high school and had written a paper in English class noting that the Eisenhower Administration criticized Israel for moving to end attacks from Egypt, while the Wilson Administration had sent Gen, Pershing into Mexico to chase Pancho Villa, (It will be interesting to see if Mexico will put to its own use the phrase in Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) - barring the acquisition of territory by force.) Israel was probably unwise to coordinate with England and France in 1956.

Mr. President,

On several occasions you have referred to the ineffectiveness of Liberalism and of western democracy. This has me wondering if you see merit to lifetime tenure for presidents of nation-states? You also seem somewhat critical of government people in Israel and have referred to "the Zionist regime" as "a
forgery." Respectfully, was that a misstatement?