" Dear President Obama, where do I get a free house like that woman in Florida? I promise I voted for you. Now where do I go to get the freebies and other goodies ? Tell Michelle and the kids I said "hi'. Sincerely, Minnie the Moocher.....

Every day President Barack Obama is handed a special purple folder. The folder contains ten letters, and every day President Obama takes time to read them.

Are they from world leaders? From members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Members of the intelligence community?

No, these letters have been culled from the thousands the White House Correspondence Office receives each day from Americans who have taken the time to sit down and write to their president.

"They help him focus on the real problems people are facing," says Axelrod. "He really a absorbs these letters, and often shares then with us."

In his first week in office, President Obama requested that he see 10 letters a day "representative of people's concerns, from people writing into the president," recalls Gibbs, "to help get him outside of the bubble, to get more than just the information you get as an elected official."

Some recent examples, according to aides, include a letter from a businessman who owns a manufacturing company and says he finds it very difficult to lay off employees who have done nothing wrong. If things don't improve, the correspondent wrote, he'll have to lay off 10% of his workforce.

Another letter came from a divorced senior citizen raising a grandchild on a fixed income, including Social Security. She confessed to being depressed and scared.

A third came from a realtor who urged the president to do something about the large number of foreclosed properties. A fourth was a plea for help from an unemployed truck driver.

Monday through Friday the head of White House Correspondence delivers ten letters to be read by the President, choosing among letters that are broadly representative of the day’s news and issues; ones that are broadly representative of President’s intake of current mail, phone calls to the comment line, and faxes from citizens; and messages that are particularly compelling.

Some of these, maybe two or three each day, the President responds to in his own hand.

The vast majority of the calls coming into the White House, and over a third of the faxes have been on the stimulus package and the economy, so up to half of the letters the President sees are on that broad subject. Aides say that many of these correspondents also have other complications: bankruptcy due to health care, lost job, lost opportunities for their children.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...ident.html

Today's sob-story letters to the President are tomorrow's free handouts and pork-laden spending sprees.

Visit here if you want the president to read your letter. I'll donate $10 for the sappiest hoax letter that gets read by el Presidente.

If Ray Gun Ronny did this you saps would be lapping it up.

(02-24-2009 10:51 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  If Ray Gun Ronny did this you saps would be lapping it up.

I'm sure Reagan (or his staff) read some letters sent to him.

Reagan had the class not to get ABC News do a fluff news story on the subject.

(02-24-2009 11:01 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(02-24-2009 10:51 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  If Ray Gun Ronny did this you saps would be lapping it up.

I'm sure Reagan (or his staff) read some letters sent to him.

Reagan had the class not to get ABC News do a fluff news story on the subject.

Reagan used his state of the union addresses to have the sob story present in the audience, so Mach's not far off the mark.

(02-24-2009 09:58 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:   " Dear President Obama, where do I get a free house like that woman in Florida? I promise I voted for you. Now where do I go to get the freebies and other goodies ? Tell Michelle and the kids I said "hi'. Sincerely, Minnie the Moocher.....

Every day President Barack Obama is handed a special purple folder. The folder contains ten letters, and every day President Obama takes time to read them.

Are they from world leaders? From members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Members of the intelligence community?

No, these letters have been culled from the thousands the White House Correspondence Office receives each day from Americans who have taken the time to sit down and write to their president.

"They help him focus on the real problems people are facing," says Axelrod. "He really a absorbs these letters, and often shares then with us."

In his first week in office, President Obama requested that he see 10 letters a day "representative of people's concerns, from people writing into the president," recalls Gibbs, "to help get him outside of the bubble, to get more than just the information you get as an elected official."

Some recent examples, according to aides, include a letter from a businessman who owns a manufacturing company and says he finds it very difficult to lay off employees who have done nothing wrong. If things don't improve, the correspondent wrote, he'll have to lay off 10% of his workforce.

Another letter came from a divorced senior citizen raising a grandchild on a fixed income, including Social Security. She confessed to being depressed and scared.

A third came from a realtor who urged the president to do something about the large number of foreclosed properties. A fourth was a plea for help from an unemployed truck driver.

Monday through Friday the head of White House Correspondence delivers ten letters to be read by the President, choosing among letters that are broadly representative of the day’s news and issues; ones that are broadly representative of President’s intake of current mail, phone calls to the comment line, and faxes from citizens; and messages that are particularly compelling.

Some of these, maybe two or three each day, the President responds to in his own hand.

The vast majority of the calls coming into the White House, and over a third of the faxes have been on the stimulus package and the economy, so up to half of the letters the President sees are on that broad subject. Aides say that many of these correspondents also have other complications: bankruptcy due to health care, lost job, lost opportunities for their children.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...ident.html

Not helping America WMD

People write to him like he was Santa Claus during the season of gift giving.

(02-24-2009 01:18 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(02-24-2009 09:58 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:   " Dear President Obama, where do I get a free house like that woman in Florida? I promise I voted for you. Now where do I go to get the freebies and other goodies ? Tell Michelle and the kids I said "hi'. Sincerely, Minnie the Moocher.....

Every day President Barack Obama is handed a special purple folder. The folder contains ten letters, and every day President Obama takes time to read them.

Are they from world leaders? From members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Members of the intelligence community?

No, these letters have been culled from the thousands the White House Correspondence Office receives each day from Americans who have taken the time to sit down and write to their president.

"They help him focus on the real problems people are facing," says Axelrod. "He really a absorbs these letters, and often shares then with us."

In his first week in office, President Obama requested that he see 10 letters a day "representative of people's concerns, from people writing into the president," recalls Gibbs, "to help get him outside of the bubble, to get more than just the information you get as an elected official."

Some recent examples, according to aides, include a letter from a businessman who owns a manufacturing company and says he finds it very difficult to lay off employees who have done nothing wrong. If things don't improve, the correspondent wrote, he'll have to lay off 10% of his workforce.

Another letter came from a divorced senior citizen raising a grandchild on a fixed income, including Social Security. She confessed to being depressed and scared.

A third came from a realtor who urged the president to do something about the large number of foreclosed properties. A fourth was a plea for help from an unemployed truck driver.

Monday through Friday the head of White House Correspondence delivers ten letters to be read by the President, choosing among letters that are broadly representative of the day’s news and issues; ones that are broadly representative of President’s intake of current mail, phone calls to the comment line, and faxes from citizens; and messages that are particularly compelling.

Some of these, maybe two or three each day, the President responds to in his own hand.

The vast majority of the calls coming into the White House, and over a third of the faxes have been on the stimulus package and the economy, so up to half of the letters the President sees are on that broad subject. Aides say that many of these correspondents also have other complications: bankruptcy due to health care, lost job, lost opportunities for their children.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...ident.html

Not helping America WMD

He could care less about not helping America as long as Obama fails.

When he reads, does he have to use the telepromter?

(02-24-2009 01:18 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(02-24-2009 09:58 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:   " Dear President Obama, where do I get a free house like that woman in Florida? I promise I voted for you. Now where do I go to get the freebies and other goodies ? Tell Michelle and the kids I said "hi'. Sincerely, Minnie the Moocher.....

Every day President Barack Obama is handed a special purple folder. The folder contains ten letters, and every day President Obama takes time to read them.

Are they from world leaders? From members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Members of the intelligence community?

No, these letters have been culled from the thousands the White House Correspondence Office receives each day from Americans who have taken the time to sit down and write to their president.

"They help him focus on the real problems people are facing," says Axelrod. "He really a absorbs these letters, and often shares then with us."

In his first week in office, President Obama requested that he see 10 letters a day "representative of people's concerns, from people writing into the president," recalls Gibbs, "to help get him outside of the bubble, to get more than just the information you get as an elected official."

Some recent examples, according to aides, include a letter from a businessman who owns a manufacturing company and says he finds it very difficult to lay off employees who have done nothing wrong. If things don't improve, the correspondent wrote, he'll have to lay off 10% of his workforce.

Another letter came from a divorced senior citizen raising a grandchild on a fixed income, including Social Security. She confessed to being depressed and scared.

A third came from a realtor who urged the president to do something about the large number of foreclosed properties. A fourth was a plea for help from an unemployed truck driver.

Monday through Friday the head of White House Correspondence delivers ten letters to be read by the President, choosing among letters that are broadly representative of the day’s news and issues; ones that are broadly representative of President’s intake of current mail, phone calls to the comment line, and faxes from citizens; and messages that are particularly compelling.

Some of these, maybe two or three each day, the President responds to in his own hand.

The vast majority of the calls coming into the White House, and over a third of the faxes have been on the stimulus package and the economy, so up to half of the letters the President sees are on that broad subject. Aides say that many of these correspondents also have other complications: bankruptcy due to health care, lost job, lost opportunities for their children.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...ident.html

Not helping America WMD

Why not?

(02-24-2009 02:23 PM)RobertN Wrote:  He could care less about not helping America as long as Obama

the only way we want obama to fail is in his attempt to turn this country into a socialist state, raise taxes and a few other liberal things. other than that i hope he makes me rich........but i seriously doubt it.