Posted on 04/16/2008 9:20:05 PM PDT by operationchaos
I went to a private school that based it’s tuition on the parents income. So there was a mix of us “poor” kids and some wealthy.
What I find even more confusing is that, from all I’ve heard, his mother wasn’t even there. She was in Indonesia and had dumped him on his grandparents, who most certainly were not on food stamps. He himself said in one of his books that she was a bank executive.
Good deductive thinking and welcome to Free Republic.
I know several Punahoe grads - it is not at all an inexpensive school, and anyone who goes there would not consider themselves poor.
My late father’s “lunch” at his one room school (when he was able to go—he was the oldest and had to work on the farm) was a piece of cornbread with lard slathered on it.
That was when there was food. Top that, Barry!
It all depends on what the definition of “poor “ is.
And then we have Obama’s wife...
Michelle went to Princeton and Harvard.
But she grew up in “working class family” in the Southside of Chicago?
Enquiring minds want to know just what her definition of “working class” is.
Poor is having the kids sell strawberry plants on the road in front of the house so the mortgage payment would be made.
Obama has NO CLUE what poor is.
I’d have to know more actual facts about his life than speculating. I went to a private middle school for a few years when my mom and I were poor. She wound up paying the tuition off on a multi-year plan over time. We would need to know more hard facts and particulars to claim Obama’s really lying about this. It’s not as clear cut as others he’s said. Plus, who knows if HE really knows the full financial details of what his mom was going through then. I don’t fully know everything my mom had to do with the budget during this time in my life.
I knew lots of PhD students who had very little income (a few thousand dollars a year) and received assistantships to cover their tuition.
Poor Obama ping
Why are the taxpayers feeding people getting their PhDs?
Get a job you elite snobs!
If that is accurate about his mom being a bank executive, I don’t think he fits the definition of what I think of as “poor”.
A lot of liberals grew up poor cos no maid.
From what I know, Obama’s grandparents paid for his tuition.
I knew a man who grateful for the dirt he had to eat, his neighbor had to suck on rocks. But he was also grateful because everyone in his family had their own rock to suck unlike when he was a child and had to share a rock with ten brothers and sister.
It wasn’t his mom that was a bank executive. It was his typical white racist grandmother........
Did he have to walk uphill to school (both ways)in 10 feet of snow, all year round? If not, he’s a wussy! LOL
Stanley Ann, Barack’s mother, was working on her Phd. (Anthropology) and returned to Indonesia for that purpose. Barack (I believe he was ten years old) did not want to go back there, instead choosing to remain in Hawaii with his grandparents and, one presumes, with his mother’s approval.
I would assume the food stamp episode occurred after her divorce, trip to Hawaii and application to a graduate program while Barack still lived with his mother.
It is plausible.
and lard!!!
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