REPLIES TO THE CURRENT QUESTION

Our question last week was:

Give us a brief picture of America after four years of an Obama administration.

Here are your answers.  The name of a writer is included only if he or she actually placed a name at the end of the message.  Otherwise, we assume the writer wished anonymity and "name withheld" is inserted.

EDITOR'S NOTE:  This is the first question we've asked that resulted in not a single answer.  This may simply have been due to the holiday intervening.  We move on.