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January 26, 2010

Has Ellie Light 'spoken'? (Updated)

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Politico seems to believe so (audio clip at link):

A letter defending Obama, over the signature of one "Ellie Light," drew some attention after it became clear that the same letter had been published in some 60 outlets, listing different, local hometowns in different newspapers.

The episode provoked various theories around the Internet, including that the letter writer was, in fact, Barack Obama himself. I first published he letter because it seemed to crystallize an argument that Democrats were struggling to make. Light wrote:
But today, the president is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning. He never made such a promise. It's time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can't just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
Well, the mystery may be over. A woman who said her name was, in fact, Ellie Light called this morning into the radio show of Michael Smerconish, a national talker based in Philadelphia who has been friendly to Obama, to clear things up.

Listening to the radio clip she sounds genuine enough, but she clearly has drunk waaaay toooo much Obama Kool-Aid. At the very least, she has clearly believed Obama's bullshit and is willing to excuse his well known, broad and deep, radical ties, extremely poor judgement - at the very least, and his radical socialist agenda for America.

Update: Is Ellie Light a Dude? If so, the commenter in the radio clip is lying and Ellie is actually the husband of a woman named Barbara Brooks (who could be the woman in the clip) - who is what appears to be a left-wing nutjob named Winstom Steward. Clearly, there's more to come on this.