By Mr. Curmudgeon

The repudiation of President Obama by Massachusetts voters was just the beginning of a mountain of bad news for hope and change. A recent Rasmussen poll finds that 60% of respondents say the next president will likely be a Republican. But the president can take comfort that he has a stalwart supporter in the person of Ellie Light. And she’s quite the letter writer. “…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.”

Newspapers around the country began noticing an eerie, verbatim similarity in letters to the editor popping up around the country. “Since news of her serial letter-writing campaign surfaced in the Cleveland Plain Dealer,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “one sleuth has tracked 70 sightings of Ellie Light letters…Some think Light is actually First Lady Michelle Obama or National Security Council aide Samantha Power.” Actually, no one really knows who Ms. Light actually is, but she is most likely the invention of an Obama personality cult group like Organizing for America.

When Obama leaves office in January 2013, his presidential library’s Hope and Change wing will no doubt include letters showing the nation’s outpouring of support for the one term president. The letters may be from the same person, and identical word for word, but at least the addresses will differ. In the next wing, the Chicago Voter exhibit will pay tribute to Democratic constituents who managed to get to the polls long after their deaths.