Has anyone ever written to the White House?

[johnnie]

I am just wondering if anyone here has ever written an email to the White House to express your opinions?
Do you think that is just asking for trouble or do you think that shrub is our employee and we are obligated to speak out mind?

[Book Lover]

1. I've been writing to presidents

and first ladies since high school, though I've always used paper mail. A few form letter replies, but that's all. My letters have been very civil with lots of highfalutin' latinate words to keep me as far from trouble as possible, tho :-)

His salary comes out of our pockets and he and his family live in public housing when they are in DC; my feeling is citizens have an obligation to inform the head of the executive branch when he sets the country down the wrong path.

[independentpiney]

2. I did a few times just for the halibut

Just after 9/11 and in the runup to the war. But you know he doesn't listen to focus groups, including the American people.

[elperromagico]

3. I last wrote to the White House when I was nine and Bush 41 was in the WH.

Nothing about policy; it was just one of those "Dear Mr. President, What's it like to be President?" kind of letters.

[vetwife]

5. All the time !

I aks him to quit hijacking my faith. I ask him to resign. I ask him to back off . I ask him to fess up. Oh Yeah I write.

[proud patriot]

4. I've written and left comments at the WH comment line n/t

[AngryOldDem]

6. A friend of my daughter's did...

...by snail mail, I think...she wrote expressing why she does not support him. She got a "thanks for writing" and an "autographed" picture in reply.

As to your second question: Of course you are entitled to write to the president. He supposedly is our leader, accountable to us. I know you're sincere, but it troubles me that the question even has to be asked, but I understand why you're asking. Don't be intimidated into giving up **any** of your rights and freedoms as a citizen.

[vetwife]

8. When I wrote the last real Prez and I wrote him a lot too

letters of encouragement and letters on behalf of veterans.
He sent me back a personal letter.
Then we got a phone call from his staff several times
and finally we got to go Al Gore's residence.
I'd turn this one down but uhhhhhhhh no problem there he wouldn't invite me within 50 miles ...Why I don't know. Atually I am a nice person, I just don't put up with lies.

[johnnie]

10. I was only asking for opinions

I believe that if we want to communicate with the President, we are entitled to. It seems that a lot of people think that he is above us.

"..she wrote expressing why she does not support him. She got a "thanks for writing" and an "autographed" picture in reply."
A picture..LOL, yeah...they care what the public thinks.

[AngryOldDem]

14. Didn't mean to offend....

...and I agree that many people have him on a much-undeserved pedestal. I've never written to a president but I used to write to my congressman, who actually took the time to write thoughtful letters back, which he actually signed.

[johnnie]

15. Oh, I wasn't offended

I am glad that people are answering this in a positive way.

BTW..hello from another Ohioan :hi:

[AngryOldDem]

24. Good to know.....wasn't sure!

Hi back atcha!

:toast: :hi:

[sffreeways]

21. Yep

same thing happened to me. I wrote a letter expressing my horror over his use of the term "crusade" and I got a form letter thanking me for my support.

I've been writing to presidents since I was 18. That makes Jimmy Carter my first. ;)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. I have twice

Once to Bill Clinton and once to the current pResident. Have you ever tried to e-mail the Bush Whitehouse? What a joke.

[liberalmuse]

9. I wrote a letter to Bush...

just after he was installed. It was a snail mail. I told him he wasn't my President and that as far as I was concerned, Al Gore had won. Can't remember what else I said, but it had something to do with pushing his extreme policies without a mandate.

On edit: I did send a letter and then a birthday card to the elected President. Mr. Gore replied in a standard mail, but it was on recycled paper.

[Cocoa]

11. I've emailed questions to "ask the White House"

they never include my questions in their chats. :-(

[Lord_StarFyre]

12. I wrote frequently to our last Legitimatly elected President

(ie President Bill Clinton).

Since I consider the current person who was appointed illegitimatly residing in the White House, I wouldn't waste the paper, stamps, or ink that it would take to say anything to him.

Besides, even if I did write, he couldn't read it (unless it was accompanied by pictures, and written in BIG BOLD words) and Ashcrack would have his goons following me around.

Come November 2nd, I'm hoping we have a Real President again, one who I could feel comfortable writing to.

[Senior citizen]

16. Yes, Big Dog reads, writes and speaks well.

As for the current misadministration, I've signed email petitions to the White House, but I've always wondered why organizations bothered sending petitions to someone who can't read and doesn't care.

I always got a nice (even if standard form letter type) response from the Clinton White House, and I'm still on the Habitat for Humanity mailing list because I wrote to Jimmy Carter when he was President.

I don't write to to pukes any more. I learned during Iran-Contra that if you chastise them by mail, they respond by asking you for money.

As for President Kerry, I think he'll solve a good part of this country's employment problems just hiring smart people to answer his mail. This country has so many problems right now that he'll probably get more mail than any previous President. And President Kerry will make sure that every single piece of decent, thoughtful correspondence is responded to properly--because he'll need a second term just to clean up the chimp's deficit.

[Cleita]

13. I wrote President Clinton once about something I can't remember off hand.

It got redirected to the DNC, who asked me for a contribution. I've never written Shrub because I'm sure it would be shredded at the Post Office before it is even delivered to the White House.

[MGKrebs]

17. Yup.

We wrote something to The Big Dog once (can't remember the subject, perhaps just a little support during some particularly dark moment) , and got a nice letter back on very nice White House stationary.

Also submitted an FOI request to the White House last year asking about the cost involved in getting that 'Mission Accomplished" banner onto the aircraft carrier. Got a letter back from the White House Counsels' office saying that the White House is not subjuect to FOI requests (which I think is true). So I sent another letter saying that if there was nothing to hide they should just release the information anyway. They uh, haven't responded to that one (although I now regularly hear clicking when I am on the phone!).

[Mz Pip]

18. I wrote to Clinton

during the Impeachment. I told him not to resign, to fight the creeps (not my exact language)

I got a letter back thanking me for my support and kind words.

I wouldn't waste a stamp on Bush but I have sent a couple of e-mails to him.

MzPip
:dem:

[vetwife]

19. I do think W thinks he is above us.. Someone toldhim he was God

and he believed it. The pic that someone got back, I wonder if he was smirking....

[union_maid]

20. Just once

It was kind of prophetic. I wrote at the time that Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act. I wrote to protest and to ask what good it is to be a Democrat if this is what Democrats support. I had no idea how much trouble that concept would cause. Over all I supported Clinton, but I hated that he signed it and still do. With shrub..I know he doesn't give a shit what people like me think. He's made that crystal clear.

[obietiger]

22. twice - no answer

I wrote to their office of special events - past presidents have sent an acknowledgment for special events (such as a birthday of a senior citizen, birth of a baby, etc.) - so someone in our family had a _very_ special event not accomplished by many folks. It was sent in mid 2001. No answer. So I sent the same request later in 2001. No answer. I wonder if they had my political profile and had decided they would not acknowledge any progressive thinkers?

[johnnie]

25. Surprising shrub didn't want to pay his respect to someone under him

It doesn't surprise me that he never got back to you. He had more important things to think about prior to 9-11.

[Bread and Circus]

23. Yes, I have. It was about the Iraq War and why it was a bad idea.

I also wrote some issues regarding healthcare policy.

Needless to say, I didn't get a reply.