Dear President Barrack Obama - about your health

Dear President Barrack Obama,

Vegetarian Gumbo Photo by Dennis Davis
Food Styling by Norman Stewart

You are a hero.

You are an amazing, inspiring person who did for me exactly what you promised, you gave me hope. Your approach towards the Muslim world was the most peaceful; the most respectful I have ever seen. Your wife’s program for obese children has inspired me to give half my income to obese and gay children in 2012. As I am a gay man with a partner of 5 years, you got my undying love with your support for eliminating don’t ask, don’t tell. When Secretary of State Clinton announced that the United States would fight for gay rights where we are oppressed worldwide, I knew you were willing to do the right thing, even when it is not the popular thing.

I think you are doing an excellent job of running the country compared to what I could do, it is an impossible job that no one could do well. I think you are doing just fine compared to the economic disaster President Bush, who cost the world over a trillion dollars worth of war and foreclosures, hunger, poverty, death and destruction. It is not within the scope of my ability to tell you how to run the country, and although I will give you my wish list in another letter, I know you are not Santa Claus, and nobody can make the GOP go away.

I don’t expect you will ever see this letter, but I hope someone on your staff tells you that I believe in you, and I love what you stand for. So here is my list of 10 things you can do to make your life healthier in 2012, which I think would do a real service to our country.

• Spend at least 15 - 30 minutes playing and talking with your children. They are the future of the county, and are wiser and more trust worthy honest advisers than the lobbyists waiting to take your time away from them. Listen to them, learn from them, and let them bless your life.

• Walking is great exercise, and an outdoor walk is a great place to hold a meeting. So anytime you are someplace kind of safe like Camp David or the White House, go for a walk instead of sitting around. Everyone will think more clearly with fresh blood to their head, and they will make better decisions.

• Watch a few YouTube videos about how to give a massage, and give a candlelit massage to your wife. She is your best asset and the one more likely to help you win the next election than anyone else. Michelle is your whole world; make her feel like it tonight. In fact, next time you are on Air Force One and feel like you can’t move, ask for a massage. The health benefits are excellent.

• Find a quiet, private place every day to pour out your heart to God, somewhere you can cry and scream and it will be ok. He is the one running the country, you just follow His orders. Tell God what’s wrong with the country. He already has a solution, and He had it before you were born.

• Never worry about the past. You cannot change it, nothing you can do will make it different, and it is the past. Forget about it. Move on. Live for now. Put this prayer in plain view in the Oval Office, and look read it every time you start to worry.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

• Bill Clinton became a vegan after several near death experiences with his heart. Maybe you should start early. Fruit and vegetable snacks for you at every meeting, no cheese, no sour cream, no butter. See my blog:”Eight reasons to become a vegan” and you will see that adding years to your life and reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke comes from eating strawberries, not the cream.

• You can never make more than 60% of the people happy with anything that you do, so just do what is right, and don’t worry about the result.

• When you get the urge to smoke, say to yourself “I choose not to smoke”. Then try to last 30 seconds. The following things increase your urge to smoke: drinking, spicy foods, fatty meat, stress and being around other smokers. The stress isn’t going away, so see what else you have “the courage to change the things you can” Nothing reduces stress like a hot bath, I recommend 3-5 a week. It is more difficult to smoke in the shower, but even a bath discourages smoking.

• Eat a lemon every day in the winter, it helps prevent colds. The juice is good in herb tea.

• Look into getting an Xbox 360 Kinect camera, and playing Xbox sports with your kids next time it rains. We play Xbox 360 volleyball, bowling, boxing, track and field and many others, and you really sweat!

That’s it. Read my blog vacationingvegan.blogspot.com for 8 reasons to become a vegan and other great articles. God bless you, and watch for my article on how to win the election!


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