Former Marine sells President Obama's letter on eBay to meet expenses

Published January 24, 2012
| New York Post


An unemployed Maine carpenter wrote President Obama asking if America's future was as bleak as it seems — and got a handwritten reply from the president.

But Charles Oliver, a 53-year-old former Marine, had to sell both letters on eBay to meet expenses.

"The reason for this letter, sir, is to ask my president one specific question. Mr. President are we as Americans going to be alright?" he wrote.

Obama replied: "Charles, I know things are tough right now and I won't lie to you — it will prolly take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole."

The letter fetched $2,500.



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Well he got his stimulus then.

Naw, he got some of it. Look at when the bottom was in our unemployment numbers. I'll give you a hint, it was right after the stimulus! Strange how that works. Imagine if we had a more responsible government where we wouldn't reward the people who almost killed our and the world's economy and we had all the stimulus needed. We'd be recovering even faster.