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In September, Velma Hart told President Obama she was exhausted from defending his policies. At a town hall, she said, "I'm one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for," a woman told the President, as he smiled and appeared to giggle. "My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives, but, quite frankly, it's starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might...

The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She's lost her job. Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, said Monday in an interview with CNBC that she was laid off as part of the nonprofit's effort to cut expenses. "I want to focus on the positive and be optimistic," said Hart, who lives in Upper Marlboro, Md. "And assume that somehow things...

When John Kerry calls you out of touch, you must be so far out of touch that you need to call Mazlan Othman, the United Nations' designated liaison to space aliens, to re-establish contact with Planet Earth. The Massachusetts senator is one of the world's experts in out of touch. What Tony Dungy is to leadership, Suze Orman is to thrift and Joel Osteen is to televised piety, John Kerry is to not getting it. He would never stoop to mere obliviousness -- not when he can don his wetsuit and windsurf contemptuous circles around the little people in a...

This heartfelt comment and question the first one President Obama received at a CNBC town hall gathering yesterday, may well become emblematic of the first half (at least) of the Obama presidency. Ms. Velma Hart — middle class, a wife and the mother of two, a veteran, and an African-American Obama supporter — said this: Quite frankly, I'm exhausted – I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I have been told that I voted for a man who said was going...