Explain, dissect, conjugate, and defend the following assertion:Michael Reagan, son of United States of America President Ronald Reagan will one day serve on the board of The John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation.
Of course, this pretty standard "no-make ups allowed" major exam question was in French, as this was a course designed to dunk -- by which I mean, of course, immerse students into French Lit. As you can tell from the question, we had just finished reading Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Oops. Train of thought problems, yet again. I was telling you about the letter I just personally retrieved from my private email account -- known only to my best of best Facebook Friends. [Loud guffaw! I have a fake Facebook account and about, oh, two Friends, all the rest being right-wing relatives. My two Friends are right-wingers, as well, but tolerant. Very tolerant.]
So, yeah, it was from Barack. My buddy Barack.
[Look, let me settle this, as I just was barraged, nay, blitzkrieged by two Super Secret Facebook Friends who are actual full-blood relatives and consider themselves, and I quote: "progressive as hell, girl!" Fine, let them assert their leftist tendencies. Yes, their leftist tendencies surpass even my own, to the extent that I doubt either of them have ever voted in their entire political adult lives. Not even for McGovern. Okay... I'm telling lies now. Let's just say that they may temper their support for President Obama due to expectations of a shift to the left by a rather large amount. Not this profderien, no ma'am! I adore, respect, love, admire, and imitate this intelligent sign of life -- and his awesome family -- every chance I get. Well, okay, so there are a few things, policy-wise, that could use a slight Marxist tweak, but, most days, I'm fine with that.]
That's right. The President, himself, writing to The Moi, care of, admittedly, the Haddock Corporation (now completely divested from Halliburton *).
* Can you freaking believe that "Halliburton" pops up as a correction in SPELL CHECK?! How screwed up is that? I mean does "amnety internatenal" show up in spell check? No, it does not, thankyouverymuch! Jesus.
Cough. Yes, my friend Barack wrote to thank me -- just me -- for my round-the-clock, high tech multi-year campaign on behalf of the watered-down Affordable Care Act. I keep referring him to my other dearest pal, Bernie Sanders, but haven't heard yet how that's going (so much to talk about!).
In the past, as many a Beloved Reader of this blog recalls, I have shared a few of my personally keyboarded letters to our President -- never violating protocol, naturally, but always seeking advice from the now deceased Tante Louise on how best to post presidential correspondence.
Well, okay. Tante Louise and I may have flubbed a few posts in which my buddy Barack figured, but we toed the, er, red line in the, er, sand when it came to my personal, and by personal I mean one-on-one, tête-à-tête sorts of intimate, soul searching, letters. The whole Flaubert and Bob Herbert catastrophe. The admittedly odd basketball post.
Even when you limit a search of this blog to "Obama, ACA," there are just a half-dozen or so weird ones... I mean, omit blog war waged on Walmart, and the regrettable incident in which I claimed not to be able to support "Obamacare" until Socialism was in place. I was on drugs. You can tell, I bet. I mean, look -- clearly, I say often enough that Obamacare -- the ACA, the PCIP, whatever you like to call it -- saved my life.
Probably, that's all my vast reading public needs to know: President Barack Obama saved my life.
And then pulls off this comedic email in which he pretends I had something to do with this brave legislative and moral effort [ ::waving:: at teddy!].
That is a true friend, indeed.
Oh hell, there is a man in a terribly plain blue suit that has been tailored, clearly, to hold a spare machine gun and drone in the small of his large back... peeking in the badly leaded hand-poured window panes that stud the upper chamber of the Computer Turret. I have repeatedly and repeatedly asked Barack, even "cc"-ing Michelle, to have the damned Secret Service "STAND DOWN," already!
Jesus.
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| Lincoln's Presidential Seal |
[Hi there, prof-de-rien! How're they hanging?]
I had to take a moment to say thank you.
Lisa, you made history.
A long line of organizers fought for nearly 100 years to make health care reform a reality, and now we're seeing the results. Millions of Americans have health insurance today, thanks to reform -- some for the first time in their lives.
The work you did is how real, lasting change gets made, and I hope it will be remembered for years to come.
I'm so happy your name will be there, alongside mine, as part of OFA's permanent record of the people who made health care reform happen.
If you know anyone else who deserves to be recognized, tell them to add their name here:
http://my.barackobama.com/You-
Anyone who was part of this decades-long fight will tell you it was never easy, but it was always the right thing to do. Teddy Roosevelt knew it. Harry Truman knew it. Teddy Kennedy sure knew it.
No matter how hard it got, the results we're seeing today make it all worthwhile. Millions of Americans now have coverage, and even more have better health care, thanks to the work you did.
Take a moment to let that sink in.
It's proof that when people come together and fight for what they believe in, real, lasting change is possible.
I can't thank you enough,
Barack Obama
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