I got the same response to my email to Obama's office. Lip service indeed.
Also just a side note. I grew up in the 60's and would have been considered a "hippie" in a lot of ways. Given that, it was an unusual time and if you weren't there it is hard to describe it. Luckily for me I had a solid foundation of ethics and responsibility taught to me by my parents. I think that many of us from that era have become solid citizens. For the most part I am now, on most issues, very conservative but there are hot buttons for me that would be considered liberal. Finding a person that I can vote for in any election of importance can be most difficult. Usually I end up voting for the more conservative candidate but too many times it is just for the lesser of two evils.
Too bad that common people have no chance of reaching any sort of important elected office these days. Most of us have more common sense than the choices we are given.
Ok, off my soapbox now.
Did the response you got "talk" to you as if you were a child who needed to be guided?
(When I got mine his people asked my why I would want to encourage people to NOT vote for him. The way it was worded made me think they thought I was a whitless child who needed to be "corrected" very "gently".
I answered back that it was because I was an IL resident and knew what kind of damage he could try to do. Then, I blocked them.