Mr. Obama: I've taught school for 41 years. But seven years of my post-bachelor's degree work career were in the insurance industry, Bankers Life, Mutual of Omaha, and other companies with which I brokered policies for my clients. Now on Medicare, I fully support your efforts to reform health insurance. I, of course, favor the "single-payer" method; however, I strongly believe that the public does not understand the terms that have been used and that part of that lack of understanding is due to a deliberate obfuscation policy of insurance companies attempting to limit your success. Please make clear in every speech what you are talking about. Use the metaphor of "Medicare for Everyone" in place of "single payer"; counter the forces of obfuscation by explaining the "choice" factors clearly by using "Part A" and "Part B". More people will understand. I strongly believe that your success in this domestic issue would be far greater if you took care of our problems associated with the Middle East, including that of domestic surveillance with the "transparency" you promised last year. We supporters see you reneging on these issues so flagrantly that many of us are withdrawing support--and not on just opinion polls. Your May suggestion that the United States can engage in indefinite detentions directly violates basic American values and is likely unconstitutional. Your policy sets the stage for future Guantánamos on our shores and elsewhere. You continue to defend the warrantless wiretapping program in various court cases instead of formally opposing the program. You must publicly renounce the assertions of executive authority made by the Bush administration with regard to warrantless wiretapping, You should proclaim that Bush-era justifications were and remain invalid. You must appoint a prosecutor to investigate the torture program and target officials at the highest levels of government, which is where the need for accountability is most acute. Those who developed, authorized and provided legal justification for the interrogations must be held responsible--regardless of what you may have privately promised to Mr. Bush. Health coverage is very important; education is very important; but the most important thing you must do is regain our trust by withdrawing our forces from the Middle East and by ceasing warrantless wiretapping as well as the recording of private internet usage. I do hope that your success in dropping the development of the F-22 is a precursor to your success in reforming health care.