Obama’s pen pals: When you write to the president he might write you back

Every night before he goes to sleep, the president of the United States reads 10 letters from the pile of 20,000 sent to him by Americans every day. Sometimes, he writes back. He’s even, on occasion, included a check. “‘It’s not something I should advertise, but it has happened,’ President Barack Obama told reporter Eli Saslow, author of the new book, ‘Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President.'” Betcha all of those letters with checks went to cronies like George Kaiser.

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  • Dear President Odumbo:

    I just wanted to write and say thank you for screwing up America far worse than anyone could have imagined. You have certainly accomplished more in three years that the communists and socialists have done in the past 50 years.

    You have managed to put us farther in debt than we have ever been. You have done nothing to create jobs in this country. You spend all your time vacating planning so I would like to suggest that after you are defeated in 2012 you get a job at travelocity since you are so good at vacation planning.

    I also wanted to thank you for selling all those guns to Mexican drug cartels, so that they could flow back over the border and kill Americans. I should also thank you for failing to secure the border and allowing millions of illegal aliens, terrorist and god knows what else to flow across the border unchecked, and then trying to make these people who COMMITTED A CRIME legal residents of the country.

    I would like to thank you for constantly telling the entire world how bad the 57 states are and apologizing for us. Lord knows we needed to be humbled because certain segments of the world would like nothing better than to see us fail, including you.

    I would like to thank you for bringing a woman to the White House who has less class than any first lady I have ever seen and dresses like she is in da hood. A woman who was not even proud to be in America until you bought the election.

    I would like to thank you for taking away all the hope we as Americans had for our future. You have saddled us with a health care plan from hell that will cost billions of dollars. Thanks are also due to your inability to solve the problems with the economy, welfare fraud, and your belief that everyone should be allowed to do or say anything they want unless they are conservative. Those Tea Party members are certainly a danger to you.

    Thanks should be given to you for hiring more Czars than any other president. Van Jones and his kill white folks rhetoric, Kevin Jennings in charge of safe schools and has nothing but a gay agenda to present. These people are paid by us Mr. President, and yet we know nothing about them until they spew their venom. Even you minster wants to "God Dam America".
    Thanks should be given to the setback in race relations that you alone are responsible for. You have done more damage to Americans by your class warfare rhetoric than any man since Joseph Stalin. Everything for the state and the state for everything.

    I would like to thank you for buying a Canadian Bus to travel about the United States. Perhaps there were not enough buses built in America, or you did not trust the American Autoworkers that are now part of the government to build a quality product.

    I would like to thank you for damning those who cling to their guns and religion. I am sure there is nothing more dangerous than people who believe in the constitution and their rights within that sacred document. No other president has had the courage to toss aside what the founding fathers so carefully crafted by stating it is a living document and can be bent and twisted to suit your needs.

    More thanks are in order for throwing one of our strongest allies to the wolfs while singling out and protecting the rights of people who want nothing more than to kill us because we do not subscribe to their stone age beliefs.

    And finally a big thank you for taking my money and giving it to people who neither deserve it or need it so that these same people can take the money and run and leave me holding the bag.

    In fact your entire presidency has left America holding the bag. My thanks for proving that socialism, communism, and even the liberal radical wing of your own party will never be right.

    I believe like those you have cast aside, your party shall also spend 40 years wandering the dessert as punishment for what you have done.

    The part of this you may not have understood is that no man, no president shall take away the rights of the people by building a nanny state. No American worth his salt will lay down for you. Only the weak, and the stupid shall support you.

    I hope this letter finds you angry, bitter and confused. I also hope that the fires of hell will find you well when you time to pass is at hand.

    An American who looks at you in disgust.

    • NSS-you said a mouthful. Thanks, my friend. I wished POTUS got 5000 of these exact letters everyday just to remind him what kind of bottom feeder he truly is.

      • Thank you for the kind words.....I was waiting for one of our trolls to jump on me, apparently they have no argument for this...

    • Thank you for your heartfelt and sincere letter to a man who hates who you and I are, who hates everything that we stand for. If you'll give me your permission to reprint it, I'd love to post it on my FB account, hoping that even just one of my liberal friends will get a clue. I wish I could give you a hundred thumbs up.

      • I posted a reply yesterday, (don't know where it went) feel free to post it anywhere, you might want to chance a couple of typos.....My fingers go faster than my brain....:)

  • If he sometimes includs a check, how come we don't see people rejoicing because they got their Obama money? Seen plenty expecting it , have yet to see one say s/he received any.

  • If this was true, we would see a lot of them on Ebay, like that lady who losing her house and sold the letter to pay the mortgage.

  • The man is a congenital liar. I’ve been fascinated by his disingenuous letter meme for a long time and have used it in videos.

    November 1, 2010 HotAir
    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/18/obamateurism-of-the-day-402/

    Those letters that I read every night, some of them just break my heart. Some of them provide me encouragement and inspiration. But nobody is filming me reading those letters. And so it’s hard, I think, for people to get a sense of, well, how is he taking in all this information?

    Obama forgot that on August 2, 2009 the White House made of sappy video of him READING THOSE TEN LETTERS!

    Inside the White House: Letters to the President
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG00mM8QEGk

    Obama is not even a good liar.

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