Mr. President: I am a lifelong registered Democrat and a Viet Nam era Army veteran who admires you and am grateful for your personal sacrifice and leadership. I understand your desire to try to unify our country by trying to "work together" with Republicans, but it is blatantly obvious that they do not want to work with us. Please put aside your admirable idealism and face reality: the country needs you to come out in favor of reforming, or better yet, eliminating the Jim Crow relic called the filibuster. You know the history better than anyone. The survival of our country is obviously more urgently essential than some obsolete Senate rule. Please, please do the right thing for our country!