Obama is writing checks to regular americans... I am regular.

**Cookie** · 10-21-2011, 02:33 PM

Well, I am about as regular as one person can get... I got my pen out.

I want a check for... 100,000 or any amount, lol. I like this.

I will split with Terry, we are buds.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/o...185608423.html

....Imagine you wrote a letter to the White House to share your personal struggle and instead of receiving a form letter in return, President Obama cut you a check.

It's happened, and more than once, according to Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow's new book "Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President." Fellow Post reporter Nia-Malika Henderson writes Friday on a surprising excerpt from Saslow's book:

A few times during his presidency, Obama admitted, he had written a personal check or made a phone call on the writer's behalf, believing that it was his only way to ensure a fast result. "It's not something I should advertise, but it has happened," he told [Saslow]. Many other times, he had forwarded letters to government agencies or Cabinet secretaries after attaching a standard, handwritten note that read: "Can you please take care of this?"

**Cookie** · 10-21-2011, 02:44 PM

You can't get one Ian.

Can I have your Corner?

**leejosepho** · 10-22-2011, 06:00 AM

When I was about 8 or 9, I was sick with a bad cold and I wrote and told President Eisenhower about that. He wrote back to "Master Joseph Lee O." with a hand-written "Get well" note in a hand-addressed envelope ... and now I cannot find that note anywhere so I can sell his signature on FleaBay!

Nuts.

**Cookie** · 10-22-2011, 06:16 AM

That is really cool Lee. It's ashame you can't find it, that would be a real treasure to have. I would frame it.

**leejosepho** · 10-22-2011, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Cookie

That is really cool Lee. It's ashame you can't find it, that would be a real treasure to have. I would frame it.

Well, maybe now you can write to Obama and then nail his response on the wall, eh?! (wink)

**Cookie** · 10-22-2011, 07:52 AM

Or take his *check* to the bank!
Trust me, I wouldn't be so lucky.

I'd get an IOU... lol

**Cookie** · 10-22-2011, 08:12 AM

...and come to think of it, the IOU will be for One million dollars! payable when I turn 88! LOL.

**ballvalve** · 10-24-2011, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Cookie

You can't get one Ian.

Can I have your Corner?

Looks like you already have his corner, since he's never here.

**Cookie** · 10-24-2011, 01:41 PM

He's in Africa, again. OR, maybe, still at the Drivers Bureau... lol. I had a horrible thought, what if they made him go back to the UK for bucking the system at the drivers' center?