(Editors Note) This story was submitted by a reader who lives in the same town in Iowa as the affected family. This tragic story illustrates how Obama was willing to say and promise anything to get elected, but is unwilling to follow through on those promises. Our thoughts and prayers are with Alex and the rest of the Hermstad family. President Obama, when campaigning in Iowa in December of 2007, made a promise to be a liaison for a critically ill girl who is  paralyzed and on a ventilator he has done nothing since, and never responded to the family again. Here is her story.

 

Obama with Alex and Jaci Hermstad

Dana Larsen, the Editor of the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, wrote in an editorial on August 23, 2008

"I did a local story on the local Hermstad family’s situation, feeling that a presidential candidate had turned his back on them after promising to serve as a liasion to get help for their mysteriously ill daughter.

The next day I saw a movie "Swing Vote," which in part features a race where candidates turn away from their core values and adopt whatever stance on issues they think will swing the election their way-to the point where one remarks, "I don’t even recognize myself anymore."

Dear Mr. Barack Obama,

We know you can’t do everything for everyone, and we even realize that we the public have allowed to be created an environment where we don’t even expect campaign promises to be honored any more, but consider this-why did  you decide to run in the first place? I doubt if it was to make empty promises while getting your picture taken with a desperately ill child.

I’m guessing that you ran because then, you genuinely wanted to reach out and help people, to make life better for those who are struggling.

A fellow Democrat and Senator, a guy who has been around a little longer than you, can show you how it is done if you let him. Hours after Tom Harkin met Alex Hermstad, he had been on the phone, and had almost instantly been accepted into a national program for children for undiagnosed diseases.

Mr. Obama, you could have made that call. You promised. And it isn’t too late to help the girl and others like her. But if has come to the point where even for you, campaigning, winning is more important than the people you are suppose to serve, goodness help us. There is no Change in that, sir. I hope when it is all said and done, the candidates still recognize themselves."

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