# Why is George W Bush trying to be my friend?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 29, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-george-w-bush-trying-to-be-my-friend/282138 "2004-12-29T19:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-george-w-bush-trying-to-be-my-friend/282138/21 "2004-12-30T17:34:39Z")

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I do have a guy with the same name out there (it’s an unusual one, I admit).

But he’s a professional trumpter player from Colorado.

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**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-george-w-bush-trying-to-be-my-friend/282138/22 "2004-12-30T17:40:36Z")

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> [@David Simmons](#):
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> I regularly get requests for financial help from Republican organizations. When they include a return envelope with postage paid I always return the empty envelope. If I could find a source of cheap sheet lead I’d cut off a hunk of that and put it in the envelope.

Don’t just send the empty envelope – put all the stuff they sent you, include the original envelope, in the business reply one and ship it back. I do that with all my junk mail – usually writing “REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST” in red magic marker on the form. It works pretty well. Moved to a new address last summer and the volume of junk mail has significantly decreased.

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-george-w-bush-trying-to-be-my-friend/282138/23 "2004-12-30T18:17:29Z")

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A few months ago, got a letter from Dubya thanking me for all my hard work with my local Republican party, too. Buh? It included a very nice signed picture of George and Laura.

I think it’s just your usual shotgun junkmail/spam technique. The Bush-haters wouldn’t be swayed by anything he wrote to us, but if something like this lands in the mailbox of someone who did make some kind of small contribution of money or labor somewhere along the line, the might be disproportionately gratified by it. The effort of gathering the names of all the people who’ve done some little thing is probably greater than just sending letters out to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

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