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Thanks for posting the e-mail address for Ms. Nooyi (indra.nooyi@pepsi.com).

I was compelled to write the following note to her this evening:
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Ms. Nooyi,

As a life long Pepsi fan and consumer, I felt compelled to write to you following some disturbing things that I’ve noticed with your Pepsi product line. I consume between two and five 16 and 20 oz Pepsi’s a day; often more on the weekends. Regrettably, things have changed.

It began when I noticed a slight change to the packaging of my favorite beverage. Gone was the cool looking candy blue, replaced with a darker blue. Very masculine, very American, so I thought. This should be good, right? Well then I’m thinking that I’ve seen that circle before. That design… Hmmmm, it has a familiar looking red swoosh and appearance. Each day I would look at it and think to myself, “you’re imagining things; you’re seeing something that isn’t there.” But I saw some thing’s recently that validated what had been troubling me. Pepsi Co has gone in the tank for Obama!!!

I find it very troubling that you have chosen to align your corporation with an unqualified, inexperienced, smooth-talking, socialist, who doesn’t have a single piece of legislation that he can attach his name to (while serving less than a full-term as a senator in an obviously corrupt State). The media has given this guy a complete pass, failing to do their work to properly vett such a rookie. And Pepsi, for whatever reason, has now decided to align itself with this socialist, who is corrupt, associated with racists and slumlords. These characteristics are hardly something Pepsi should be aligned with.

I’m trying to understand why you would do this. Is it because your marketing team has determined that you don’t have enough demographics in the liberal media, the extreme left, wacky and violent political activists, the Hollyweird elite, the gay community, those who endorse socialism and redistribution of wealth and income and other transient pieces of our society? I guess they don’t realize that they will be alienating 50% of Americans through this pro-Obama promotion. They should carefully consider their actions before snubbing 56 million Americans who did not vote for “O”.

When I want to drink something or go out to eat, I do not want to be reminded of bad politics, socialism, or the fact that more of my hard-earned income is going to be used to “spread the wealth.”

My entire family consumes an awful lot of Pepsi products from the beverages we drink, the food we consume, to the places we eat at, and more. I hope you understand that I will no longer be buying your Pepsi products, visiting Pizza Hut or Taco Bell, or any other product or service in the future. I am truly saddened by your actions, as I truly love your products. However, I am a man of principal and will no longer support Pepsi. My family will do the same. And you can bet that I’ll be letting my friends and colleagues know as well. Lord help us if Coke or RC make the same mistakes as Pepsi.

Please reconsider your position. Go back to being neutral in politics (at least as far as the average “Joe the Plumber” sees).