<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Dear George: Letters to the President: Podcast</title><description>Audio version of the long-running Dear George: Letters to the President. What do you have to say?</description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Dear George: Letters to the President)</managingEditor><pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2024 05:51:30 -0500</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>All rights reserved</copyright><itunes:image href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com/images/DearGeorgeProjectImageTheaterMania.jpg"/><itunes:keywords>President,Bush,George,Bush,Letters,to,the,President,politics,white,house,political,commentary</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Open letters written to President George Bush, from the left and the right. What do you have to say?</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Open letters written to President George Bush, from the left and the right. What do you have to say?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Politics"/><itunes:author>Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>contact@deargeorgeletters.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 7</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2006/03/letters-to-president-episode-7.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:12:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-114197898360396229</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Port of Newark or the Port of Dubai? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In two weeks since the announcement of the sale of six major US ports to UAE-Owned Dubai Ports World, a roar of outrage came from Americans of all political sides, leading to a power game between congress in an election year and the President, ultimately leading to DPW announcing plans to immediately sell off the US portion of its takeover of the British company currently running the ports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marcus notes that this is probably the first time that we realized that our ports were, in fact, foreign owned, and Meredith replies with cool-headed reasoning from her Texas kin who work in the shipping industry, and quips that George Bush has finally united the country on at least one thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agree? Disagree? Write your own letter at &lt;a href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com/"&gt;DearGeorgeLetters.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening/Closing music: "Daisy" used courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/Letters_to_the_President_-_Episode_7.mp3"&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President - Episode 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://media.libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/Letters_to_the_President_-_Episode_7.mp3" length="19827436" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 6</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2006/02/letters-to-president-episo_114054219230684083.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:15:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-114054219230684083</guid><description>Marcus and Meredith discuss the State of the Union, the President's propsed budget and the ongoing NSA Wiretapping controversy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agree? Disagree? Write your own letter at &lt;a href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com/"&gt;DearGeorgeLetters.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Jesse Johnson and Karen Kice for reading the selected letters, &lt;a href="http://www.comedysoapbox.com/comedianblog.cfm?ComedianID=2290"&gt;Robert Driemeyer&lt;/a&gt; for additional commentary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quote Marcus was trying to remember during the eposide: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin"&gt;- Benjamin Franklin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-bush-wanted-renewable-energy-cuts/"&gt;More information on cuts to renewable energy sources in the proposed budget &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening/Closing music: "Daisy" used courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-006.mp3"&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President - Episode 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://media.libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-006.mp3" length="30144435" type="audio/mpeg"&gt;&lt;/enclosure&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 5</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2006/02/letters-to-president-episode-5.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:23:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-113923620437550558</guid><description>Once again, Meredith goes out into the field, and asks everyday Americans what they would like to see George Bush accomplish in the new year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.jeremymix.com (Jeremy Mix opening/closing music)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;http://www.thesubways.net/ (The Subways, "I Want to Hear What You Have to Say")&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;http://www.cooleysanemia.com Cooley's Anememia (Thalassemia) information. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://media.libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-005.mp3" length="21847941" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 4</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/12/letters-to-president-episode-4.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:39:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-113380524256553074</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Kashmir, Pakistan and Perception&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A break from our traditional format, where Meredith Lucio interviews White House correspondent Gregory Gorman of the &lt;a href="http://www.talkradionews.com"&gt;Talk Radio New Service&lt;/a&gt; about his recent trip to Pakistan and Kashmir, as well as perceptions of media bias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Gregory's trip to Pakistan and Kashmir &lt;a href="http://www.talkradionews.com/audio/search.php?q=gregory+gorman"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aid for the Earthquake victims in Kashmir can be contributed through &lt;a href="http://www.a-r-k.org/"&gt;Americans for the Resolution of Kashmir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also mentioned in the podcast - &lt;a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/"&gt;AmericaBlog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-004.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President - Episode 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening and Closing music - Daisy by &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open Letters to President Bush, and commentary by Marcus Woollen, Meredith Lucio and Robert Driemeyer returns in the next episode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-004.mp3" length="21198893" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 3 (Part Two)</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/11/letters-to-president-episode-3-part_29.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:19:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-113330684790840927</guid><description>&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PRESIDENTIAL FLASHBACK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Episode 3 - Part Two of the Flashback Episode&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="postBody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.comedysoapbox.com/comedianblog.cfm?ComedianID=2290" target="_blank"&gt;Robert Driemeyer&lt;/a&gt; muses the comparisons between George Bush's presidency and a popular 80s Broadway Musical. Followed by commentary by Meredith Lucio, Marcus Woollen and Rob.&lt;p&gt;   Thanks to Jesse Johnson and Karen Kice for reading the selected letters, Robert Driemeyer for additional commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Opening/Closing music: "Daisy" used courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Agree? Disagree? Write your own letter at &lt;a href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com/letters.html"&gt;DearGeorgeLetters.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-003B.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-003B.mp3"&gt;Dear George Letters Episode 3 (Part Two)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-003B.mp3" length="31818986" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 3 (Part One)</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/11/letters-to-president-episode-3-part.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:22:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-113231404560156175</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PRESIDENTIAL FLASHBACK&lt;br /&gt;or What a Difference a Year Makes&lt;br /&gt;Episode 3  - Part One&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been about a year since President Bush won his second term in office. This episode, your hosts Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio take a look back in time to letters written to the President in the days just after his re-election, and discuss what's happened in the intervening year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agree? Disagree? Write your own letter at &lt;a href="http://deargeorgeletters.com/letters"&gt;DearGeorgeLetters.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This episode has been split into two parts due to time constraints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Jesse Johnson and Karen Kice for reading the selected letters, &lt;a href="http://www.comedysoapbox.com/comedianblog.cfm?ComedianID=2290"&gt;Robert Driemeyer&lt;/a&gt; for additional commentary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening/Closing music: "Daisy" used courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com/"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-003A.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear George Letters Episode 3 (Part One)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-003A.mp3" length="47922685" type=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/enclosure&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 2</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/10/letters-to-president-episode-2.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:51:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-113079620456587361</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Special Halloween Edition of the Dear George Letters podcast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are you afraid of?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcuswoollen.com/"&gt;Marcus Woollen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mermu.net/"&gt;Merdith Lucio&lt;/a&gt; listen to and comment on &lt;a href="http://deargeorgeletters.blogspot.com/"&gt;real letters written to President George Bush&lt;/a&gt;, focusing in on what scares them, democrats, republicans and everyone in between. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Jesse Johnson and James Merillat for reading the selected letters for the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.comedysoapbox.com/comedianblog.cfm?ComedianID=2290"&gt;Robert Driemeyer&lt;/a&gt; for additional commentary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening/Closing music: "Daisy" used courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.jeremymix.com/"&gt;Jeremy Mix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write your own letter at &lt;a href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com/letters.html"&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcuswoollen.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-002.mp3"&gt;Podcast Episode 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-002.mp3" length="31265752" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Letters to the President - Episode 1</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/10/letters-to-president-episode-1.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:49:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-112965435495080439</guid><description>Marcus and Meredith discuss the long-running &lt;a href="http://www.deargeorgeletters.com"&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President&lt;/a&gt; website, and debate the nature and role of ethics and civility in government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-001.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our first podcast of Dear George&lt;/a&gt; - welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-001.mp3" length="21300840" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item><item><title>Dear George Podcast</title><link>http://deargeorgepodcast.blogspot.com/2005/10/dear-george-podcast.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:59:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17971654.post-112959721408772388</guid><description>Coming soon, a half-hour audio podcast of selected letters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-Promo1.mp3"&gt;Dear George: Letters to the President - 5 Minute Promotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/mwoollen/L2P-Promo1.mp3" length="955651" type="audio/mpeg"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>contact@deargeorgeletters.com (Dear George Letters - Marcus Woollen and Meredith Lucio)</author></item></channel></rss>