[Unwed] Desperate mother-of-three sells handwritten letter from Obama to avoid being evicted

The Daily Mail ^ | June 15, 2011 | Rachel Quigley

[grundle]

The 26-year-old was an avid campaigner for Mr Obama in 2008, getting T-shirts made and encouraging people in her neighbourhood to vote.

She said: 'I campaigned for him hard. I got the shirts made, the Barack the Vote shirts made. We've done a lot.'

It was about half way into the President's term that things took a downward spiral for her.

Her third baby was born prematurely with health problems and with limited daycare options she could no longer work.

Her partner also left around this time.

With nowhere else to turn, she decided to write the President a letter.

She told him she was optimistic for change when she campaigned for him and that now she feels her future is bleak and unpromising. Despite this she also praised the President and his efforts.

She wrote: 'I do think people are coming down too hard on you and your administration. An eight-year mess cannot be fixed in only two years’ time.

'I am still behind you 100 per cent and so is my family. My dad is a disabled Vietnam Veteran and he tells my seven-year-old son, Silas, that he should strive to be just like you.

To Ms Mathis' surprise, she received a handwritten response from the President shortly after.

He told her that she had a 'positive spirit', that she inspired him and promised her that things would get better for her and her family.

But now, eight months later, things have not improved and she is being forced to sell the letter in the hope that she can avoid eviction.

She said: 'We need to move as soon as possible. We need a three bedroom. I'm not working, so no-one is giving me a chance.'

[zavvone]

Agreed! And also saying “That’s all I git”

[anglian]

Three babies and a partner.

[libertarian27]

Maybe she can move in with Aunt Zeituni....

[zavvone]

“Idi Obama”

I love it!!!

[Mr. K]

"In the article it says [the letter] would be worth $11,000. Seems high to me [...] Maybe she can go on Pawn Stars and Rick can call in one the experts he seems to always have immediately available... ;)"

OMG that would be funny to see her ask for $11,000 and have Rick fall down on the floor LHAO

[Sooth2222]

In the article it says this would be worth $11,000. Seems high to me but I am not a collectibles expert. Maybe she can go on Pawn Stars and Rick can call in one the experts he seems to always have immediately available... ;)

I think it's high, too, unless the "irony factor" behind the letter is worth $10,000.

I'm no expert but I do follow Pawn Stars, and for $11,000 I think you could probably buy a letter signed by a "real" and significant US President who can't crank out a bunch of new ones, because he's dead. Plus a motorcycle, or a nice antique gun, or maybe both.

You couldn't pay me enough to hang that letter on my wall, so I won't be bidding.

[Harley]

Destiny, you just got to hang in there. My ‘shovel-ready’ jobs are just about ready. Honest. I promise you.

[Graybeard58]

What she needs to do is join a local Evangelical church, get involved with a community of Christians and receive the support that will make her a strong, independent woman and mother.

Good advice.

At my church we get calls for assisstance, just about every day, from people in or similar to her situation, they are not our church members, have never been to our church and have no intention to attend, they just know that churches give things away and they want some.

A long time ago our resources stretched past the point where we could help everybody and so they have to be explained to that we are doing our best to help needy members in our own church and can't help them at this time. Some get very upset that we can't help them pay their rent or car payment. "You're a church aren't you? You're supposed to help people!", we stay nice as possible with them but have to stay firm in denial, we simply help our own first and that's usually with food, not cash.

Also, as Christians, part of our obligation, is to 'assist the poor", we do not have an obligation to help enable the life style of some of the seekers and again, we don't have the resources to look into other people's life styles, to determine if our money and food would enable someone to continue in the drug culture for example. Most of our own needy members and their situations, we know already and we try to be good stewards of God's money. After all, everything we have is His.

Reiterating, Your advice is sound. Join a Christian community and when you are in need, help will be found for you.

[Miss Behave]

Obama needs to write her another letter telling her that she’s just another BITTER unemployed single young black mother CLINGING to the “need” of a three bedroom private home.

[cableguymn]

I’ll give her 11 bucks for it. But she pays shipping.

[Hulka]

“children with “partner”

Or would that be. . .children with multiple partners

[anglian]

“We need to move as soon as possible. We need a three bedroom.” Thoughts on a Surreal Depression (VDH)
Pajamas Media ^ | May 7, 2011 | Victor Davis Hanson
I grew up with stories from my grandparents of 28 people living in my present house. My grandmother, she used to brag, had a big kettle of ham bones and beans cooking nonstop each day and fed assorted relatives as they came in. And yet all I heard were stories of happiness, hard work, and collective sacrifice. Relatives would say that the “’30s” were the worst and best years of their lives, as they related sagas of real genius involving fruit canning and curing, ad hoc repairs to equipment, and cobbled together furniture and clothing —all without spending any money. History’s revolutions and upheavals — whether the Nika rioting in Constantinople, the periodic uprising of the turba in Rome, the French upheavals, or the Bolshevik Revolution — are rarely fueled by the starving and despised, but by the subsidized and frustrated, who either see their umbilical cord threatened, or their comfort and subsidies static rather than expansive — or their own condition surpassed by that of an envied kulak class. Perceived relative inequality rather than absolute poverty is the engine of revolution.

These are strange and dangerous times. with an increasingly angry population, one “empowered” and made more, not less, bitter by the last two years of governance in Washington.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2716730/posts

[Brookhaven]

I went through a fianancial down period when I was younger and had to sell a number of my possesions: including electronics, a Gibson guitar & banjo, a Fender amp, a Slingerland drumset, and a Concept-2 rower. I felt awful, as they were dear to me at the time, but they were luxury items--nice to have, but not as important as meeting my obligations (which included tax obligations--for some reason the government never lets you out of those, no matter how hard you are struggling at the time financially).

I'd feel bad for her, I know how heart wrenching it can be to be forced to sell something that is dear to you, but I'd feel worse if other people were forced to help her with her obligations so she could keep "a letter."

And that's the bottom line with sob stories like this--where does the money come from so she can keep her letter? It comes from taxpayers, which include people that are struggling to make ends meet. Is it really fair to take money from one struggling person to help another struggling person?

www.nerds4cain.com

[LibLieSlayer]

Was is signed with the blood of innocents?

LLS

[JoeProBono]

[JLAGRAYFOX]

If anyone thinks POTUS Obama gives a hoot about this unfortunate woman and her family, or anyone that is unemployed or underemployed, forget it. The problem with this poor woman and thousands like her, is that Obama was a “zero” from the start and never should have been elected. It was well known that Obama was just a product of Black Racist, Jeremiah Wright, Louie Farrakhan, Van Jones, Bill Ayres, Sol Alinsky, etc. As such, he wants America and its people, all of them, Blacks included, to fail. He is willingly attempting to destroy the USA!!!

[jerseyrocks]

Oh he made them change then he spent it.

[Vigilanteman]

She said: 'We need to move as soon as possible. We need a three bedroom. I'm not working, so no-one is giving me a chance.'

Three kids, her inseminator has moved out and she only needs three bedrooms? Doesn't this mean at least someone will have to share a bedroom? Shouldn't she be asking for four?

I was a kid when our family home burned down, with four brothers and a sister. We moved into a two bedroom home which a family friend had on the market and felt damn lucky to have a roof over our heads.

When the home was sold a few months later, we felt damn lucky to move into a used trailer which was our home for several months until the new family home was built. Guess how much government money we got during this whole ordeal?

[takenoprisoner]

“Bush AND McCain tried to fix the housing crisis BEFORE it happened (in 2006) only to be beaten down by the Democraps in Congeress.[sic]”

Perhaps they did give a half-hearted attempt, enough to make it appear they were. Bush was the POTUS, said to be one of the most powerful positions on the planet. But what role did Bush play in the beginning, before he “tried” to rein in fannie and freddie, finally realizing what he had, at least in part, created?

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020617.html

It will be a hard sell, to convince many, Bush didn’t have a role in this crisis. He absolutely did.

As for giving your money to the GOP. If you like Sarah, should she determine to run, give it directly to her. Your donations to the GOP gave you (us) McCain, and now, from all appearances, the GOP will be backing Romney. So, you may as well donate directly to Romney. Same difference.

[I Buried My Guns]

"... I HOPE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED, AND VOTED, FOR OBAMA GET HIT FIRST AND HARDEST. ..."

I agree 200%. It is these low-IQ heathens that got us in the mess we are in now, and it infuriates me that they are even allowed to vote.

This is the evil of pure democracy: Every ghetto-dweller now has their hand out for freebies; where it was once subtle, now it is overt and in your face; they have no shame, no work ethic, and no clue. I predict mass unrest and violence over this as "their" money dries up.

The crime isn't that they are ruining their life; the crime is that they are ruining MY life.