Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama

Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama From correspondents in Washington From: AFP March 11, 2010 10:24AM

US President Barack Obama has joked that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an "idiot''.
Tongue-in-cheek, the President remarked that his staff did not spare him the wrath of his correspondents - selecting a representative portion of 10 letters for him to read when he returns to the White House residence at night.

"I will tell you, that my staff is very even-handed, because about half of these letters call me an idiot!'' Mr Obama said overnight, chuckling at his own joke during a rally in Saint Louis, Missouri.

The President went on to make a serious point, saying that many senior citizens wrote to him to tell him to keep the Government's hands off Medicare, a health plan for elderly people.

He said he wrote back to these people to point out that Medicare is in fact a federally administered program.

Mr Obama frequently mentions the flood of letters that make it to the White House every day, and has said those selected for him to read help him to puncture the presidential "bubble'' and connect with average Americans.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468312/posts

And your point is?

1 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:57:46 AM by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Amazing how much of a mess this guy is creating.



2 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:58:42 AM by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: Sub-Driver
That was no joke Obama.



3 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:59:20 AM by johniegrad
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To: Sub-Driver
The other half identify him as an ***hole.



4 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:59:29 AM by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Sub-Driver
Only half? He’s lying.



5 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:01:07 AM by savedbygrace (You are only leading if people follow. Otherwise, you just wandered off.)
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To: wac3rd
I agree, stunning!



6 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:01:16 AM by Irenic
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To: Sub-Driver
You can be sure that those writing the King in disapproval of his tyranny, Big Brother is taking names and addresses for future reprisal.



7 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:01:53 AM by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: Irenic
ME, ME, ME, ME



8 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:02:10 AM by Col Frank Slade
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To: Sub-Driver
If the shoe fits.....



9 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:02:12 AM by Danae (Don't like our Constitution? Try living in a country with out one.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The other half call him a communist.



10 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:02:21 AM by Argus
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To: Sub-Driver
No he’s not a idiot, just a usurper,illegal alien,fruad,hoaxster,money launderer, Friends of jerimiah,Bill Ayers,tony resko,



11 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:02:22 AM by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: Sub-Driver
“I will tell you, that my staff is very even-handed, because about half of these letters call me an idiot!’’

Note the three self-centered references. I, my, me. He’s a narcissistic idiot.



12 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:03:54 AM by Starboard
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To: Sub-Driver
Thanks, America, for putting this Undocumented Kenyan with zero business experience into the White House and as CIC of the most powerful military on Earth /sarc



13 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:04:29 AM by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Sub-Driver
So he’s only basing that on five of ten letters out of 40,000? I guess ‘idiot’ is the least derogatory term his staff could find.



14 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:04:48 AM by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Since he admits half, it must be more like 6:4 or 7:3.



15 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:05:12 AM by tumblindice (Feed me Seymour!)
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To: Sub-Driver
said those selected for him to read help him to puncture the presidential "bubble'' and connect with average Americans.
it ain't working - cause he has such disdain for "average Americans" versus his elite company.

To him, we are the great unwashed, not worthy of a second thought from his HighNASS.


16 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:05:45 AM by maine-iac7
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To: Sub-Driver
Pretty good considering 100% of his staff considers him an idiot.



17 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:06:20 AM by MarkeyD (Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
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To: Sub-Driver
..he’s catching on



18 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:06:25 AM by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Sub-Driver
In a couple of years the percentage will be about 80% who call him an idiot and he’ll still have the same cavalier attitude about it unless he’s impeached or arrested before then.



19 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:06:29 AM by Rebelbase
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To: Col Frank Slade
No kidding. I, me, my; every day, all day.



20 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:08:21 AM by Textide
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To: Sub-Driver
Surely that many people can’t all be wrong....



21 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:08:43 AM by dps.inspect
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To: Sub-Driver
Probably the only way his staff dares to try to get a point across.



22 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:09:04 AM by 9YearLurker
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To: Sub-Driver
If the shoe fits...



23 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:09:08 AM by TennesseeGirl
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To: Sub-Driver
Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama
Only half?
What is wrong with people these days?


24 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:09:13 AM by SmokingJoe
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To: Sub-Driver
To be precise, he is a corrupt Kenyan Communist Muslim mob-connected America-hating idiot.



25 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:09:29 AM by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver
“...because about half of these letters call me an idiot!’’

The others, written in crayon, are illegible...something about mmm mmm mmm ...



26 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:09:37 AM by jessduntno ("We need to pass ObamaCare so that the public can find out what's in the bill." - Nanny Pelosi)
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27 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:11:26 AM by BigLittle
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To: Sub-Driver
All of my actions Half of my letters brand me an idiot.
There, fixed it for him.


28 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:11:31 AM by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: jessduntno
VIDEO PLEASE!



29 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:13:36 AM by outhousepatrol
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To: Sub-Driver
Only half?



30 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:14:21 AM by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: Sub-Driver
Sometimes, it becomes desirable to keep an idiot busy. The question becomes how does one accomplish such a feat? Please scroll down.
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Sometimes, it becomes desirable to keep an idiot busy. The question becomes how does one accomplish such a feat? Please scroll up.



31 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:15:25 AM by WinOne4TheGipper (Truthers to the Left of me, Birthers (pretending to be) to the Right of me!)
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I bet its more than half.



32 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:15:43 AM by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Did he need TOTUS to deliver that line?



33 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:16:17 AM by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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BUMP :-D



34 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:16:59 AM by diji (IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hmmm, I wonder why?



35 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:17:06 AM by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Take the hint.



36 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:17:08 AM by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Yet another 0bama lie. People smart enough to know he is an idiot are also smart enought to know that writing it down and sending it to the White House would be inviting a Secret Service rectal examination.



37 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:18:26 AM by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Sub-Driver
“Half of my letters brand me an idiot”
Well, Barack, if half the mail I got said I was an idiot, I would be doing some serious introspection.

But then, that is how a reasonable person would react.


38 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:19:24 AM by Gabrial
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To: Sub-Driver
Hey, 0, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, etc.



39 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:19:31 AM by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Sub-Driver
The half not written in crayons.



40 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:19:35 AM by AU72
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks Sub-Driver.
...joked that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an "idiot''.
Not that we should believe either of these numbers...

41 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:19:35 AM by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: theDentist
Just for the hell of it I typed in ***hole in google and this is one of the first pics that comes up:


Artist's impression of s supermassive black hole


42 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:20:29 AM by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: Sub-Driver
the another half confirm it.



43 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:20:37 AM by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Well, at least half of the people are right. :O)



44 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:22:06 AM by HarleyD
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To: savedbygrace
That is why he gets only ten letters...they can only fivnd five positive ones, so to make it seem even-handed, they limit the bad ones to 5 as well.

Out of his first thousand letters, I bet 995 called him unflattering names or made allusions to what he could not sell on the side of the road, even if the troopers were directing traffice to his stand.



45 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:22:34 AM by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Col Frank Slade
“ME, ME, ME, ME”
Obama, the first step is to admit you have a problem.

There is help available.

https://health.google.com/health/ref/Narcissistic+personality+disorder


46 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:22:41 AM by Gabrial
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To: Sub-Driver
Hate to break it to you, Barry, but...

those are the ten good letters.



47 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:25:05 AM by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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48 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:25:19 AM by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: Textide
The man's narcissism & arrogance astonishes me ... more and more each time he "campaigns".
and he probably thinks he's coming across as "charming" and "down to earth" with these sort of "stories".

*shudder*


49 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:25:48 AM by twyn1
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To: Sub-Driver
“Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama”.
Half?
That’s a damn lie.
Lot more than half KNOW you are a marxist dumb ass pal.