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Topic: Mr. and Mrs. Obama
Keep Up Pretense of
Growing Up Poor |
Mr. and Mrs. Obama
Keep Up Pretense of
Growing Up Poor
American Thinker, by M. Catharine Evans
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Posted By:magnante, 9/25/2012 8:46:26 AM
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| Let's get this straight. Barack Obama never knew a life of financial hardship. Ditto for Michelle. But the First Couple keeps bringing up their impoverished childhoods and student loan debts in stump speeches. In 2008 Obama reeled in the MTV crowd with an unproven spiel about how he and Michelle's first mortgage was less than their monthly loan payments.(snip)Obama's tale of being raised by a "teenage" mother on food stamps and getting all the way through Harvard Law on student loans is playing again across America.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
alaskaal, 9/25/2012 8:58:53 AM (No. 8888286)
Their mummys and daddys were slaves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 9/25/2012 9:17:48 AM (No. 8888332)
Food stamps did not exist until 1965, when Barack was 4 years old. Prior to the food stamp program, poor people lined up for the distribution of commodities, including cheese, rice, butter, and the like.
JFK called for the creation of a food stamp program for the sake of efficiency, plus it would move surplus farm products into the market.
So when Barack talks about being a food stamp baby, he lies, yet again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
navybrat, 9/25/2012 9:30:05 AM (No. 8888378)
Raised in Hawaii by financially well-off grandparents. Went to the best private schools. Attended expensive ivy league colleges due to affirmative action. We have never seen any papers or records that he had a school loan or paid back anything. Had an expensive condo first home in Chicago and no job. Michelle was given a $300,000 per year no-show job as a hospital executive. Obama never had a real job or accomplished anything on his own. A community organizer job inciting people to riot and protest is not a job. He has never had a victory he earned including his elevation to the office of President. All wealth and possessions he/they enjoy were given to him with no sacrifice or effort on his part. I would like to know who really owns their mansion in Chicago and why both Obama's lost their law licenses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Davids918, 9/25/2012 9:33:33 AM (No. 8888390)
Adding to #2, and at 4 he was moved to Indonesia. Returned to Hawaii at 10 to live with his white grandma and grandpa who by then were doing very well.
And Michelle grew up in solid upper-middle class family of educated parents.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msjena, 9/25/2012 9:55:53 AM (No. 8888458)
Michelle didn't grow up rich, but she grew up in an intact family, with a father who was the breadwinner and a mother who took the primary role of taking care of the kids. That gave her a huge advantage in life, no matter what her skin color.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 9/25/2012 9:59:23 AM (No. 8888469)
I'll betcha when speaking to the Upper East Side set and the Martha's vinyard summer season crowd the jivesters don't prattle on about being po', underprivileged, 'n downtrodded on.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 9/25/2012 10:06:18 AM (No. 8888485)
Her father was making close to $60,000 in the early sixties. She grew up upper middle class in those days.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lylacat, 9/25/2012 10:27:44 AM (No. 8888546)
And that is precisely why Michelle feels entitled to having taken over 17 expensive, lavish and luxurious vacations all at the taxpayer's expense. We owe it to her, because she grew up poor.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 9/25/2012 10:54:00 AM (No. 8888641)
I never believed that. The poor are rarely world travelers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mitzi, 9/25/2012 11:00:14 AM (No. 8888660)
He inherited about 1/2 a million when his grandparents died ... by Obama standards that may be poor.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
veritas, 9/25/2012 11:00:31 AM (No. 8888662)
Well, yeah, but compared to their present status as melanin millionaires [rich due to skin], back then they were "poor."
Oh -- and rich due to a prime spot at the taxpayer-provided trough, too.
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