The day after George W. Bush was elected to office 8 years ago my cousin Elaine, who is British, called from her home near Warwick England. Under normal circumstances, she typically moves through a very proper line of questioning as is considered polite, how are the children-type questions before launching into the items she had really hoped to discuss. Except on this occasion she broke format and the very first words that came from her mouth were, “Good God, Jody…The Americana’s have elected a President who can’t form a complete sentence!” In order to fully appreciate her delivery you have to imagine a very clipped British accent pronouncing Jody, heavy on on Jo while leaning hard on the oh sound. It’s been a phrase I’ve repeated time and time again over the past 8 years…I expect she will call again post-election only this time with a very different message:)
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A Note From Barack Obama
As stated previously, I’m a member of an online reading and wrting community called Good Reads (link can be found in the margin). I noticed in the last month that Barack Obama was also a new member of the community having authored a number of books . In reading his comments he indicated that periodically his daughter checks his Good Reads account but often he checks it himself.
That having been said, I took the liberty of sending him my hope for the future to which I recieved the following reply:
| from: |  Barack Obama |
|---|---|
| to: |  Jody Scott-Olson |
| subject: | re: Re: Thank you |
| message: | |
| Thank you so much for the support! I won’t let you down. | |
A Novel Spot 