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It is a wise man who plants a tree in the shade of which he knows he will never sit. -- Greek proverb --

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson --

From On High - Coming to you from a secured redoubt on Big Walker Mountain in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Oh, Stop. You Didn't Think He Actually Meant It.

Ginny Wray, editor of the Martinsville Bulletin, has a gentle reminder of something Obama said when he was campaigning in her economically devastated town back in August of last year:

“If you give me that opportunity, if you give me that chance, I will fight for you every single day. I’ll wake up every day in that White House thinking about those people in Martinsville.”

Ginny Wray has sent the President a letter, asking him if he remembers how to spell the word.

M-A-R-T-I-N-S-V-I-L-L-E.

That's just south of the city where he recently declared that he "brought this economy back from the brink," and where "we’re starting to see a kind of resurgence of optimism."

I'll bet he was thinking about Martinsville when he said that.

Or not.

Thus the letter.

"I’ll wake up every day in that White House thinking about those people in Martinsville." Laughable then.

Not so funny now.

1 comments:

wd said...

I think he meant what he said. He thinks of them and chuckles at how gullible they are/were. He could help them by cutting taxes and ordering his EPA to allow drilling, coal fired electricity generating plants, etc. But, he won't. You folks in Henry County and Martinsville voted for hopey-change--enjoy.