Dear Mr. Obama,

You are about to take Bible in hand and repeat the following:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

I ask that you consider this oath and what it means. I have been watching your selection of the players on your new team, and see that many of them are the authors or the worker bees that have shredded our Constitution and Government. That does not give me confidence.

I watched your introduction of your new team and saw only one brief mention of the Constitution. The rest was dedicated to a need for more intrusiveness, more spying, more searching and restricting of We the People. That does not give me confidence.

I listened to your campaign promises to end the wars and end the gulags and have watched you hedge and back off on every one of these promises. Now we are to have more and wider wars, we are continuing to back Israel including sending them several thousand tons more munitions as they raze Gaza and slaughter its population. Closing the gulags is going to be complex and time consuming. That does not give me confidence.

You indicated that We the People, not They the Wealthy would be helped to survive in the economic chaos brought on by the Bush "help the wealthy" program. My bank does not have any money to loan to the retired, the marginally employed, to refinance stressed mortgages, etc., but it did buy another bank since they got the bailout. That does not give me confidence.

You are said to be a Constitutional scholar. You should know that the Constitution mandates impeachments and bars pardons for the impeached. That the impeachment process is much like a Grand Jury. It certainly does not require multi-million or billion dollar investigations when anybody with a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights can point out many repeated violations of the documents and, many noted scholars as well as laymen have produced excellent Articles of Impeachment, only to have them ignored or tabled. Yet, you now hedge and say that bringing these crimes into the open would be counter productive, or that proof would be difficult and costly to obtain. That does not give me confidence.