We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie.
How's he gonna do that?
We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.
Does this mean they won't stick up for my unborn child should someone intend to do harn to him/her/it. Or is it just trash?
If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a deer, then you really aren't much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, pick up another sport. We will make our streets and schools as free as we can from these weapons and we will protect your children just as we would protect ours.
A nice setiment to protect us from ourselves, but not a reality.
I would agree except that people will always be able to make a handgun in their basement or something.
11. We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don't put those beliefs into practice. In fact, we will actively seek to promote your most radical religious beliefs ("Blessed are the poor," "Blessed are the peacemakers," "Love your enemies," "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God," and "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."). We will let people in other countries know that God doesn't just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage religious intolerance and fanaticism -- starting with the fanaticism here at home, thus setting a good example for the rest of the world.
This is a good thing.
The kicker is:
I promise all of the above to you because this is your country, too. You are every bit as American as we are.
Then follows it with:
We are all in this together. We sink or swim as one.
There is nothing really "we" about his letter at all. The entire letter is based around "us and them", "or you guys, and us" That bothers me. It doesn't make me hate him, but makes me hate the fact that we are divided on some or all of these issues. Otherwise I don't mind what he says.