Comments on: Getting Obama to air his dirty laundry

By: Siel

Siel — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:38:06 +0000

Now I’m interested in reading her biography :)

By: KateNonymous

KateNonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:17:26 +0000

Naturally, but since Abigail Adams was the first First Lady to live in the White House, she started the tradition. She had her reasons for using the East Room, too.

By: Siel

Siel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:37:35 +0000

Don — Another reason I’m glad not to be in the OC — though this may be a good time to admit I don’t actually line dry myself –

Joe — I really liked Alice’s letter. Esp. the fact about how he shouldn’t feel he has to bear all the responsibility for the problems in this world, seeing as how he wasn’t the one who created them.

KateNonymous — I would imagine all the people who lived in the white house before the advent of washer/dryers had to line dry, no?

By: KateNonymous

KateNonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:09:47 +0000

They’d be continuing a tradition. Abigail Adams used to hang the laundry in the East Room.

By: Pat Cadam

Pat Cadam — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:01:19 +0000

Ben Davis, who is the author of this campaign, has more good socially responsible ideas in a week than most of us have in a life time.His website, http://ishothim.com/, is full of active campaigns that are simple in their concept and powerful in their possibilities.

By: Gary Kavanagh

Gary Kavanagh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:19:51 +0000

I think everyone should have the right to line dry, and it is really silly it is an offense in some areas. However saying the president should do it, does seem pretty kooky. I’m all for our leaders setting an example, but seeing laundry hanging outside the white house doesn’t befit a government building to me, and I consider my self pretty damn liberal.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:03:29 +0000

I would put Alice Walker’s excellent open letter to Barack Obama in the list of unsolicited eco-advice. It’s a great letter – read it here: http://www.theroot.com/id/48726

“…finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies.”

By: Don Hosek

Don Hosek — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:56:25 +0000

Actually, in Irvine, you can be fined for line drying your laundry.