All the president's emails

To: David Axelrod <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Brits whingeing about BP/oil spill backlash Hang on, hang on. Now the accusation is that I'm being TOO angry? After I spent every morning last week in front of the mirror trying to act more angry, like the newspaper columnists kept saying I needed to be? (It's hard work: when I think about the effects of the spill, I just become "really, really" calm.) Huh – so I guess I'll have to make a decision, and figure out whether to play to a fractious US electorate that wants me to be more aggressive, or to that pasty-faced Cameron guy and the pensioners of Britain who want me to go easy? Tricky one. Let me have a think. Barack To: David Axelrod <[email protected]> Subject: Re: re: Brits whingeing about BP/oil spill backlash Let's go with the US voters. Barack To: David Cameron <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Our conversation at the weekend The pleasure's all mine. Sorry I could only spare a minute-and-a-half, but I had to rush to an important hour-long meeting of the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce. Anyway, to recap: I'll have Robert Gibbs announce that we actually spoke for 40 minutes, and that you were furious, forceful and commanding on BP, and that I agreed to give your views serious consideration. In return, we'll say nothing about your (frankly pathetic) request for a signed photo, and you'll have a word with your chancellor, so that his family firm will fix me & Michelle up with as much fancy wallpaper as we require to redecorate the White House residence. Do we understand one another? Barack To: Nelson Mandela <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Thanks for agreeing to write the foreword to my memoirs! Sir, it's an immeasurable privilege. And, I've got to say, rather useful – every time I'm pestered by bickering staffers about BP or financial regulation or Afghanistan, I've told them I can't talk because I'm working on the introduction to the Mandela book. Your name's like magic – nobody feels they can object. So I've just kept writing and writing. It's 1,300 pages long. Hope that's OK? Respectfully, Barack