AN OLD GIMMICK, EXPOSED AGAIN – AT 8:05 P.M. ET:  Apparently there is this individual named Ellie Light.  She likes President Obama.  And she lives everywhere.  From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.  Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.

“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,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California...

...Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.

Isn't travel great, and broadening?

And what is "Ellie Light's" explanation?

“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

Absence of media support?  What media is she looking at?

Generally, newspapers have asked letter writers for address verification.  That practice may be fading, however, under financial pressure.  If Ellie Light continues her antics, the money might have to be spent again.

Maybe the president can give Ellie an ambassadorship.

January 23, 2010