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At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Karl Rove told a table full of environmentalists (including Sheryl Crow), “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” Ms. Crow reminded him, “We are the American people.” But Karl had already stormed off in a huff(ington), and I’m not sure he heard. So I sent him an e-mail. It went like this:

I’m one of the American people you work for.
Yet for the past few years you’ve worked against practically everything I believe in.
Next time you want to tell some folks “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people” perhaps you should check their IDs first. Some may well be American, much like me.
Claiming you work for the American people is less than a half-truth. Given the current opinion polls, it’s only about a third-truth.

American citizenly yours,
David van Wert

If you feel like writing Karl a message of your own, please do so.