Ten Letters

It's reported that President Obama reads 10 letters from ordinary citizens each night before going to bed.  These letters, culled from the estimated 40,000 that the White House receives each week, supposedly keep him grounded and keenly aware of the real world outside his protective bubble.  Given the policy disasters of his first year, and his repeated attempts to follow a path a majority of Americans wish he would abandon, the people responsible for choosing these letters should be fired.  Forget Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, or Tim Geithner.  Someone at the U.S. Postal Service is gabbing mail intended for the North Pole and redirecting it to the White House.

While writing this post, it occurred to me that "Ten Letters" is made up of 10 letters.  There are also ten letters in the words "Santa Claus", "the economy", and "George Bush."  Perhaps the president should try 9 letters from constituents instead.  Scratch that, "impeached" has nine letters.