Call Me Mr. President: Launch!

Yesterday I put out an open request on Facebook for President Obama to call me on my birthday. Even though I'm not friends with him (despite my repeated pokes), I knew he'd get the message because the U.S. Government has thousands of analysts scouring the interwebs every day. It's true, I saw it on Numb3ers.

But he never called. And it dawned on me that perhaps he has a pretty tight schedule, and changing it day-of, even for a five minute phone call, might be difficult. Obviously I need to make my request much, much earlier. Like 364 days in advance. Which is what I have done. I sent this email out to president@whitehouse.gov a few minutes ago. (Subj line: Birthday call).

Dear Mr. President,

I will turn 34 on October 6, 2010. I would really like it if you would call me.

If you are looking for a few reasons why you should bother, I'm going to be posting on my blog Call Me On My Birthday, Mr. President, which you can access at callmeonmybirthdaymrpresident.blogspot.com.

Thank you for your time and good luck with the whole health care deal.

Sincerely,

Seth Kolloen
(Citizen of U.S.)

So we'll see. As I said, I will be posting reasons for the President to call me on this here blog over the next 364 days; hopefully he or his schedule minions will be impressed.