An Open Letter to American President-elect President Obama
Jan.1,2009
Respectable President Obama,
My name is Chunlong Liu. I am an ordinary citizen of Zhengzhou, Henan province, of the People’s Republic of China. The historical moment is coming when you are holding the presidential inauguration and take on the American presidency. I will take the opportunity to give you my heartfelt congratulations and many good wishes!
Your speech on November 4th was so inspiring and so moving that it shook the whole world. I was deeply moved, especially by this sentence,“Yes, we can!” It was so sonorous and resounding that anyone who has heard it will never forget.
Pondering your victory speech, there emerges a lofty and great figure before me, who is a combination of valor and wisdom. The speech is a piece of lyric prose full of genuine human feelings. It is also a declaration that represents your determination to agglomerate various forces and to overcome all difficulties, including the current financial crisis. How can I forget your seven consecutive “Yes, we can!”, which is just like a raging fire in this severe winter giving out dazzling blaze of confidence, resolution, ambition and perseverance! Rather than widely separated by oceans and mountains, this blaze seems to be burning within my own breast. It gives me strength and spurs me to march forwards without stop.
Your speech not only moved me, but also lit up my inspiration. In no time I have completed the conceiving, designing and registering a trademark of the door, i.e., “Yes, we can!” By now, I have already received the acceptance notice from the State Trademark Bureau of China. In my view, registering this famous sentence as a trademark is an event to commemorate your election of the American president and it will be the witness of a new era.
You may wonder why the sentence “Yes, we can!” should be registered as a trademark of the door. What I mean is this: Firstly, a door always gives one the feeling of security. Like a strong safe guard, a door is the symbol of strength, which is just what embodied in the sentence “Yes, we can!” Secondly, from ancient times, man has always lived with the door as a living necessity, and doors are everywhere around every one of us. So, by linking the sentence to the most commonplace door, we can help convey the sentence and its idea to every corner and every man in the world. The door of “Yes, we can!” is by no means a usual one, it contains too many good wishes, such as the door of Security, the door of Peace, the door of Happiness, the door of Development, the door of Prosperity, the door of Cooperation, the door of Harmony, etc. In this sense, the door trademark and “Yes, we can!” are actually accordant and harmonious by nature and bring out the best in each other. So, I feel so proud and happy to be the owner of the trademark and thereby the practiser and conveyer of the faith of “Yes, we can!”, which is the most important idea in one’s life and also in the society of contemporary America, China and the entire world.
“The sun beyond the mountain glows;
The Yellow River seawards flows.
You can enjoy a grander sight
by climbing to a greater height.”
Respectable President Obama, at this significant time when you are holding the presidential inauguration and when a new year arrives, I would like to present this famous poem from China’s Tang Dynasty to you as a handsel. I sincerely hope that you will come to “a greater height” to achieve “a grander sight”, and that you will lead the American people to overcome the current difficulties and usher in a new era!
Let’s hold our arms, standing at the new historical starting point, with our joint efforts to conquer the financial crisis and other difficulties and hug in a more sunny and more luxuriant spring!
Again, please allow me to give my heartfelt salutations and congratulations to you and wish you a happy New Year!
Chunlong Liu,Mr,
Zhengzhou,Henan province,
The People’s Republic of China |