Mar 25, 2009: Blackboard Blogger

[sweetwater]

That's wonderful! I hope enough people follow his example in other areas that "sirleafing" becomes a new verb.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by sweetwater

That's wonderful! I hope enough people follow his example in other areas that "sirleafing" becomes a new verb.

Sirleaf is also the name of the woman who is currently the president of Liberia, the "Iron Lady".

On July 25, the day before Liberia’s Independence Day, he wrote in bold letters above the day’s story: “CAMPAIGN TRUST BETRAY?” The story dealt with the promise made by Liberia’s new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, perhaps a distant relative of his, to provide electrical power to at least part of the city by Independence Day and to restore at least part of the water system that was destroyed in the war.