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NAME: Jamie
LOCATION: Goleta, California
Dear Barney:
My 2 German Shepherds wanted me to ask you the following: How do you do all this amazing stuff when you don't have opposable thumbs?
-- Jamie
Dear Jamie:
Thumbs are overrated.
Barney
Dear Barney:
What do you think is the ultimate solution for the unrest in the Ivory Coast?
Sincerely,
Rover
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Dear Rover:
First, the Ivory Coast is a hotbed of socio-political turmoil fomented by a massive gap between the desperately poor workers dependent upon a volatile oil industry and the corrupt elitists that have historically controlled that industry. The breakdown of their connections to the former Hussein regime has rendered them almost totally incapable of marketing their resources through normal global distribution channels.
Secondly, I know who you really are. I have connections in the Secret Service and know everybody's code name. C'mon, Karl...get a life...
And third, I gotta go...that *$(% Cheney hid my chew toy again...
Sincerely,
Barney