Posted on 04/16/2008 9:20:05 PM PDT by operationchaos
Thanks for that wonderful story. I’m always inspired by American ingenuity and ‘can do’ attitudes. I can’t stand the belly-aching and whining of liberals.
When I was 10 years old my parents had to borrow from my $300 savings account to put food on the table for 2 months.
what I get from this is, his mother was a welfare cheat. Now days we call them “Welfare Queens”
I hope that you can enforce that lesson to your children. There is NO shame in being poor, the shame is in CHOOSING to REMAIN poor.
God loves us all equally. Some of us accept that, others expect salutations for their expected recognition.
Fingernails? So you were lucky enough to have meat-flavored sand? Bloody prince, weren’t you... Meat flavored, next you’ll be complaining about the feather beds in your own little Windsor Palace, you spoiled yob.
WE had to take boulders, break them into little rocks for 28 hours a day, spend our 4 hours of sleep a week on the sharpest flakes of rock which we’d have to then use as temporary hair plugs to replace the hair we sold to cover our taxes, and grind the rest of the little rocks into sand for us to eat. And we LIKED it!
It would be possible for both Obama and his mother to be going to fancy schools at the same time, and still not have much money in the house. Prep schools and private colleges both search for outstanding students and offer them scholarships, to balance out the “legacy” students whose parents pay full freight. (I know; I was a mostly-scholarship student at a college where you either had to be rich or smart to get in. I certainly wasn’t rich!) And many PhD programs have the students essentially work their way through by teaching underclassmen. (Again, I know this firsthand, since that’s how my husband achieved his “piled higher and deeper” degree. We got by on just a few hundred a month during that time.)
I’m not carrying water for Obama here. But if you’re a good enough student, you don’t have to have much money to go to an expensive school.
When me and my family first immigrated here (Legally. Green cards, immunizations and all), we had nothing to eat but sandwiches made out of Cheese Whiz and wonder bread and we had plastic furniture. Now we have a house that’s worth over 200K post-housing bubble bust. I hope when me and my future wife have kids, we can teach them the work ethic and financial skills that my parents gave me.
Obama's father was still married to another woman in Kenya. And it really wasn't a separation. He abandoned Obama and his mother, which must be why Obama identifies with his father's race rather than the typically white people who raised him.
To this day I can't eat oatmeal or pancakes. I'll bet you know why.
We used to dream of having lard with our cornbread.
You forget, his grandmother was a racist, so I’m sure she didn’t help out.
Are you saying that Obama's father, the man whom he reveres and about whom he wrote "Dreams of My Father," was a polygamist?
Very interesting.
A quick check of Wikipedia yields the following information:
"At 18 (circa 1954), he [Obama's dad] married a young woman named Kezia in a tribal ceremony. They had four children, two of them after he returned to Kenya from the United States. He never divorced Kezia, who now lives in Bracknell, England."
Obama's father never divorced his first wife, and in fact went back to her in Africa. That means Obama Sr, was still married to a woman in Africa when he married Barack's mom, Ann Dunham, in the U.S. in 1961.
Moreover, Obama Sr.'s first wife was merely a teenager (13 years old) when they wed. Good thing they weren't living on an FLDS compound in Texas!
You are nothing less than an ass. I spoke from personal experience. My experience was in the 1980’s.
What experience have you that negates MY reality, you NOOB?
Nevermind the NOOB, and I genuinely regret my use of that pejorative, but what is done is done. I stand by the rest of what I said.
He had a Grandmother who raised him with mannerisms to become a POTUS candidate, yet she's a typical white, who is distrustful of blacks?
Also, if Obama can "suffer" hardships, why does he pander to the masses for government help?
Michelle had a “working class upbringin’” in which she learned to drop those pesky “g”s when talkin to certain audiences. But she forgets, sometimes.
Good catch.
I remember many morning of being served Oatmeal [We called it Mush] If we were good, we got some raisins in it.
Did you ever have pancakes made with bisquick and water? We were out of milk.
Actually I had a great upbringing. The pancakes were often served with homemade jams and jellies that we had helped with the prior summer - Getting up early, picking berries, cleaning the jars, cooking the berries. We even used the melted paraffin wax poured on top of the jams to seal them. I haven't seen that technique used in years.
I remember one trip we made with another family to the county welfare center. They were picking up government sponsored cheese and butter. I remember asking why we didn't get butter. The other family had a better income than ours, but our parents knew that applying for welfare was not the American way. You made do with what you had and worked hard to improve your situation.
I later noticed that the other family took the precious butter for granted, and it got wasted.
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