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- ted_hosmann, on 02/23/2009, -29/+570you had me at "Obama reads"
- KayDigs, on 02/23/2009, -28/+489Doesn't matter what your political affiliation is, it's cool that the President himself is keeping his ears open and writing some folks back.
- GeographyJoe, on 02/23/2009, -49/+257listening to the people? um, we can't have that, Mr President.
Just kidding! My letter would say:
President Obama,
I'm sorry for the crap you have inherited from the previous administration and I'm sorry that the loudest voices you hear are from the people who wish you to fail.
I am immensely pleased with your strict interpretations of the constitution so far and have only grown more impressed with you as a leader since voting for you.
signed
a grateful constituent - freedomjoe, on 02/23/2009, -41/+232You mean he isn't locking himself up in the tower and having all dissenters jailed?
Change. Thank you, Mr President. It's really nice to see -- esp some of the children he has written back. I can imagine nothing more encouraging as a child than receiving a letter from your president. Things like that really can change a life.
It's a small thing, but it's part of the broader picture of a man with intellectual curiosity and openness to the public. He won't make the mistake Bush made of being so insular he had no idea what the common person was dealing with. - BenTheTank, on 02/24/2009, -5/+155lol, no you won't
- deadapostle, on 02/24/2009, -15/+155He only reads 10 letters? Jesus. I'm going to have to reduce the length of my messages.
"Plz hlp ecnmy" - Damn it! That's 11
"nd jb n hlthcr" - That's 11, too
"snd hm trps" - HA! Only 9! - freedomjoe, on 02/24/2009, -35/+158Did you read the article? It says no president has done this since...they don't know when.
By the way, where is your praise for Obama? I see you spent the whole thread saying Bush did this once and it was a REAL letter!
WOW! Again, you didn't read the article. He does this every day. He also reads, but that's another story.
Maybe I'm holding a grudge after two stolen elections, an illegal war, a broken constitution, and a global financial collapse stemming from the man's policies which took my life savings with it. Do you have a problem with that? You may say I should get over it, but I'll thank you to save your self-righteous lectures for your children. You have no moral authority at all as a republican who is defending Rove on other threads.
Or maybe I got infected from all of the hate being spilled on President Obama from the !Right here on digg and the Rushublicans trying to bring our country down to stand up for their failed ideology.
You lecture me to be positive and yet...you are not being positive. Hypocrisy -- let me check your comments. YUP, a Republican. - inactive, on 02/23/2009, -37/+155im going to write to him everyday about legalizing marijuana
- Azerael, on 02/24/2009, -9/+119What I want to know is, who chooses the 10 letters he reads out of the thousands?
- syda, on 02/24/2009, -21/+130Bush used to try to read 10 letters a day too... But always had to stop there because he never knew what came after J.
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” ~ George W. Bush - shupy, on 02/24/2009, -9/+113I once got a letter from Bill Clinton in response.
It is news because people need to hear that presidents do this. - theaceoffire, on 02/24/2009, -2/+85I was totally going to do it
But then I got high.... - Pstall, on 02/23/2009, -29/+101Most Presidents do this, I do not know why this is news. I know someone that wrote Bush a letter in 8th grade and got a signed letter that was written by him back. Not some fake standard printed signature either, it was real.
- moxley, on 02/24/2009, -8/+69He likes it when you sprinkle Carpet Fresh powder in the envelope with your letter so that it smells good.
If you want to make sure your letter gets some attention by the people who open his mail, that's all you need to do!! - Pstall, on 02/24/2009, -17/+73@jackieblu
You are really pathetic. I provide a real life story about Bush doing the exact same thing, a well though out response to a letter an 8th grader sent in with his real signature at the bottom and all you can respond with is:
"I find it hard to believe Bush could even read"
Sad.
Funny how I get dugg down for posting a real life story about Bush responding to a letter but someone who got a letter from Bill Clinton not dugg down. Interesting. - Murdats, on 02/24/2009, -2/+56Thank you G42gGwth for writing to me, I am grateful for your offer of penis enlargement medication for a low, low price but must respectfully decline as I do not believe this course of action will provide any benefit for our great nation. If you have any more suggestions on how to improve this fair nation of ours I am always here to read your emails.
-Barack Obama
President of the United States - salinemist, on 02/24/2009, -28/+80I'd be happier if he read a Macroeconomics 101 text.
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -6/+54You're retarded. Ronald Regan had 5 arms, two of which were dedicated to writing responses to letters from Americans 24 hours a day while he single-handedly defeated communism, nazis, the bubonic plague, and racism - he then got up from the toilet and ate breakfast at 4am and enjoyed the rest of his first day as awesomest president ever.
- Larssonk22, on 02/24/2009, -16/+59@jackieblu
I think its about time everyone moved on from making Bush jokes, seriously.. - JimSwarthow, on 02/24/2009, -11/+54@eadinteadint
Bush wrote a letter to every family of every serviceman killed on his watch. that's a common fact even most democrats are aware of.
that you are so consumed w/ hate should give you pause as to just what your point is in life, btw. you likely call yourself a liberal yet you exhibit 0 qualities that'd support that claim. if your obvious hostility and skepticism is characteristic of any aspect of your life you're as conservative as any of the folks you likely claim to hate. - happy irony! - pseudononymist, on 02/24/2009, -5/+45FTA:
Every day, Barack Obama whips out his Blackberry and opens m.digg.com, and reads the ten most popular stories of the last 24 hours.
"A fish with a transparent head?" Obama exclaimed, a wry grin appearing on his face. "Now that's strange I can believe in!" - BadAsh71, on 02/24/2009, -8/+44Quite surprisingly, Obama's supporters tend to investigate things more thoroughly than those from that "other" team.
I'm just sayn' :-) - inactive, on 02/24/2009, -1/+33ps. I'm black.
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -39/+71In other words, every morning Obama reads 10 letters that have been pre-approved by his staff. I'm guessing his spirits -- and his ego -- get quite a boost every morning.
- darkosh25, on 02/24/2009, -10/+41So, he's Santa Claus?
- pintomp3, on 02/24/2009, -12/+43Meanwhile Bush gloated about the fact that he didn't read newspapers.
"What's in the newspapers worth worrying about? I glance at the headlines just to kind of (get) a flavor of what's moving," Bush said. "I rarely read the stories," he said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/143851_thoma ... - Slycer, on 02/24/2009, -4/+35I bet he hears a lot with those ears! :P
/Obama fan. - inactive, on 02/24/2009, -4/+30That'd be cool, but you'll forget.
- thepeacemaker, on 02/24/2009, -1/+26"Looking like a car coming down the road with both doors open"
- Weezy Jefferson describing Will Smith's ears.
“I definitely got the ears for it,”
- Will Smith on the possibility of playing Obama. - BadAsh71, on 02/24/2009, -3/+25I really hope they do legalize marijuana just so we don't have to read more posts every day in response to articles/comments that have nothing to do with drugs begging to legalize marijuana.
Spark'em if ya got'em :-) - hawkspur, on 02/24/2009, -2/+23He probably only responds to people who have a well-written and thought out letter, rather than people who are retarded.
- floppydrivez, on 02/24/2009, -2/+23LMAO nice comment
- xpinchx, on 02/24/2009, -4/+24I'm glad somebody said it.
- unixfg, on 05/23/2009, -1/+21If it were my handwriting, I know he'd prefer typed.
- BadAsh71, on 02/24/2009, -2/+22Dude, you really need to get a grip on reality.
- oboshoe, on 02/24/2009, -16/+35Obama is the most brilliant campaigner I've ever seen.
I thought he would stop campaigning once he won. As anyone with critical reading skills can tell, he hasn't stopped at all.
Reading letters from the public is great, it really is. But getting a serious news agency to write a puff piece on it underscores the brilliance of his campaign staff. - orion846, on 02/24/2009, -1/+20you think the white house organizes its documents in 10 categories, and one is marijuana, and the president reads 1 pro-marijuana letter per day, that's what you think do you?
- STKD, on 02/24/2009, -2/+21Just not security briefings prior to 9/11 then.
- pintomp3, on 02/24/2009, -9/+27His first townhall as president was unscreened, which is a major departure from how Bush did things. Bush didn't even read newspapers, he had all his news filtered through his staff.
- killrbeez, on 02/24/2009, -4/+22When I got married, my fiance (now wife) sent President Bush a wedding invite. He replied with a letter apologizing neither he nor the First Lady could make it. The letter was typed (on official letterhead), but was signed by both of them
- inactive, on 02/24/2009, -38/+56And he cuddles 3 kittens a day, plays with puppies, and eats Tootsie Pops. Nothing like a little propaganda to hide whats really going on behind the curtain.
- johnnyboy239, on 02/24/2009, -4/+21@ismhmr
1. Citation?
2. so?
3. Burden of proof, also not true
4. No he didn't....
5. Citation?
6. Last I heard he was renegotiating or cutting Nafta...
7. So? Are you implying that
A) The church killed them
B) Obama runs the church
At BEST this argument is a fallacy
8. Do you understand economics at all?
9. A) Citation B) Cutting some programs adding others C) so??
10. Citation? You realize that presidents can't actually introduce bills right?
11. Hitler had black hair.... ?
112. Hitler had a name that started with A...?
13. A) Citation, B) Not true
14. Not true
15. In that he voted for it?
16. Cite????
17. ?
18. ..... Again... Executive branch... is NOT... Legislative branch....
19/20. Got bored and Making ***** up now?
You got buried not because you're a "racist" but because you're a ***** moron
@nourmuon
well, a STRICT reading of the constitution would eliminate the take care clause, which is where most of presidential power comes from - Axon14, on 02/24/2009, -4/+21@Skywise
Of course he read fiction. He was a devout christian after all. - inactive, on 02/24/2009, -0/+17..but how many numbers does he read
011001100110100101111000001000000110010101100011
011011110110111001101111011011010111100100100000
011100000110110001100101011000010111001101100101 - theaceoffire, on 02/24/2009, -5/+22I always thought that they made categories... like here is one stack about marijuana, here is a stack of compliments, here is a stack of arguments, etc.
Then they would select one from each... Course, I might be wrong. - Shadic, on 02/24/2009, -0/+16 Wrong President.
- Anomaly100, on 02/23/2009, -20/+35Great submission Books! This is refreshing and this is indeed change.
- Jektal, on 02/24/2009, -0/+15How much does it cost to have LOLCats ghost-write for you?
- T8erT0T, on 02/24/2009, -25/+40In other news, George W. Bush has just recently discovered which way to hold a book. He plans to learn how to read the book by this coming summer.
- dienaked, on 02/24/2009, -1/+15And his aides would make sure that your letter is never one of the 10.
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