Dear Mr. President,

As you know, we've had our differences. While there are some things you stand for that I can support 100%, there are also areas where, frankly, you go off the rails and I cannot follow.

Nonetheless, I want to assure you that you have my support and I hope your term is successful. More specifically:

- Where we disagree on questions of how best to achieve a goal we share, I hope you are right and I am wrong. It's the goal that matters, after all.

- Where we disagree strongly on the goal, I hope you won't mind if I wish for your program to stall and go nowhere.

- Where you once held a position I agreed with and you now hold an opposing position, I hope you were telling the truth then and are lying now. It's okay, I understand that all candidates for national office have to engage in this once in a while.

- In those areas where, as we both know, you really don't know what you are doing, I hope you will rely on competent advisors.

- In those areas where, at least from my perspective, you advisors are nuts, I hope you will be making the decisions and that as little harm as possible results from your actions.

I will promise that if you uphold your end of the deal and act in good faith, even if that results in decisions I cannot support, I will not treat you as the right treated Clinton or the left treated Bush. I know that, as was true with both Clinton and Bush, you get up each day wanting to do the right thing and make the world a better place, and I sincerely hope you succeed in that endeavor.

Yours, Deadron (I'll explain the name over beers some day)