According to this S.F. Chronicle story (which is a N.Y. Times reprint) the President of the U.S. is no longer accepting your comments or questions at the email address: president@whitehouse.gov.
Instead you must navigate to the White House Web Mail form where you will first need to state whether the forthcoming message is a supporting comment or a differing opinion; then you will need to select from a pre-compiled list of topics where your message will fit (and it better fit, or you can just stop right now) of which the economy, and jobs are not an option. After you have properly categorized your message you will then need to identify yourself by submitting your name and address. Now you are ready to tell your president your thoughts and feelings; provided those thoughts and feelings are of the approved topic type.
I think this Fortune article pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. The whole system seems to be designed to make the president less accessible to average citizens, and the whole having to identify whether you are for or against the president’s ideas makes me think the against ones just go right in the trash. I understand that 15,000 emails a day is a lot to sort through, but do they have to be so brazen in the way they go about telling me my opinion doesn’t matter?
Update: looks like they caved a bit to the pressure; there is now a general comment option, and the economy is now an approved topic.
Dear president Bush,
my friend and i are in the sixth grade and would like to go to some web sites without it having a nasty image appear on the screen it is near impossible to find one without a nasty comment or image on it.
your truely
fellow american