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raycarey

^ if the results go the way that the polls are indicating, i hope the old man remembers to lock the medicine cabinet.

Mr Earl

^Ray dahling:
How are you going to medicate yourself if the messiah looses?

raycarey

i will most certainly be disappointed if obama doesn't win....but i firmly believe that mccain would be better than bush....anyway, a better question would be.... how many changs are you going to have to pour down your gullet to come to terms with having a black president? 555

Boon Mee

Total. Bull. Shit. This biatch came from a middle-class Black (whoops, sorry, African-American) family.

Ger yer story straight or don't, post,...dude.

Google is your friend...

lom

Ehh, look who's talking!

Norton

.....The black was just fine. The biacth might have been a bigger whoops.

Mr Earl

No Changs....such an occasion would call for a semi-truckload of the best Belgian ale and a few dozen cases of single malt scotch to stay drunk for the next 4 years.

foreigner

I concede I am a big fan of Michelle & detest everything Cindy is. + IMHO, John is outahisf'nmind.

my tenement misconception is common folk lore. The 'childhood tenement' is often referenced .. & discounted


the one-room tenement appears in many accounts of her upbringing.. to have been brought up in a one-room tenement when she wasn't.

the one-room tenement that now appears in most accounts of her upbringing
Atlas Shrugs: MICHELLE OBAMA, EXPLOITING THE POOR NARRATIVE
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Mrs O: The truth about Michelle Obama's 'working class' credentials | Mail Online
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Barack Obama's Wife
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Megan's Minute: With Friends Like The Daily Kos, Michelle Obama Doesn't Need Enemies

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childhood in a one-bedroom apartment on the south side of Chicago.. Michelle Robinson's childhood home can be described as a one bedroom / one bath two family flat.

she shared a "bedroom" with her brother, but it wasn't much of a bedroom. It was actually the living room with a divider down the middle
The South Side of Chicago has long had its share of gang-infested housing 'projects'
perhaps black middle class .. hardly white middle class in the '60s ..
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parents who didn't go to college
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Michelle Robinson majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating with cum laude honors in 1985
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she attended Harvard where she earned her law degree in 1988
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She is a 1985 cum laude graduate of Princeton University; a 1988 graduate of Harvard Law School; a former associate dean at the University of Chicago, and currently a vice president at the University of Chicago Hospitals... sits on six boards, including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
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In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her among "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women."[31] In July 2007, Vanity Fair magazine listed her among "10 of the World's Best Dressed People."
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& IMHO, a beautiful woman!

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Boon Mee

And her college thesis was on what subject, hmmm?

foreigner

blacks had / have legit complaints.

i was raised in south Texas & remember 'colored water fountains' ..
once I attempted to drink from 'the black fountain' in a grocery store.. my dad jerked me away like i was stepping in front of a speeding truck

i attended high school with 0 blacks .. & remember few ( 1? ) blacks at a major university.

& remember when there were no blacks playing in the ncaa.. (allowed me, a slow smallish white boy, to attend college on an athletic scholarship)
in my junior year a black tight end, way fast & way chiseled & a major ass kicker, joined the freshman squad.

blacks had / have legit complaints.

lots of insecure xenophobes (ignorant redneck crackers) out there that Michelle has had to deal with.

Boon Mee

She's not getting any of my pie...

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." -- Michelle Obama

foreigner

if you pay taxes in the US & make over 250k I'll be eating some of your pie, apple ala mode, please .. go ahead & get the second piece ready .. I'm in a pie eatin' mood.


http://k43.pbase.com/u11/louiea/uplo...iealamodeb.jpg

ummmm . now that's some good pie.

stop spreading democracy & pay for health care fo' all chillins' in the US .. good idea?
Think Progress » 41 days in Iraq vs. insuring 10 million children.

foreigner

Boon Mee

You haven't been paying attention to the news lately. The number is down to 120K and dropping in proportion to the amount of 'entitlements' the Redistributer is going to give out.

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Texpat

I earn significantly less than 250K.

In fact, I'd be happy to see that in several years.

Some people just can't fathom "country first" or doing something for the country even if it doesn't provide personal gain...

Simply too much to ask.

Boon Mee

Well, I work far too hard to be willing to give out 'entitlements' to lazy welfare recipients who reckon their morgage will be taken care of and gas magically put in their car...

Texpat

Earn your own keep -- the Robin Hood shit is a fairy tale -- that's where it should remain.

foreigner

O'Bama's tax plan is similar to the tax rates under clinton .. before the shrub gave huge breaks to the trickle down fat cats.

Mrs. Mc's taxes would go up $55k

providing health care to the poor will take the burden off emergency rooms at private hospitals.
the current system REQUIRES private hospitals to take all ill persons presenting at the ER without checking their ability to pay .. wrecks, OB, tooth aches, flu .. no matter
the current system puts the burden of the society on private enterprise.
private hospitals are required by law to treat ALL persons presenting to the ER.

a solution would be to allow hospitals to deny emergency room treatment to those who cannot prove they can pay

In lieu of societal responsibility:
I am in favor of denying ER treatment to anyone who cannot document their ability to pay .. before they are put in the ambulance proof of payment payment should be secured .. or leave em' in the street, perhaps move them to the curb to facilitate traffic, but do not require private enterprise to treat for free.

where I currently live the city has a $15 ambulance fee added to the bi monthly water / sewer / trash bill .. even if you have insurance, in order to have water, sewer & trash you must pay the ambulance fee ..
this is the way it was before I bought a home here, apparently continuity of ambulance service was threatened due to lack of payments.. ??

foreigner

an extra $1000 per year now will allow you to wisely invest in-order to secure your 250k goal .. to help make the down payment on that foreclosed duplex.

country first. what does that mean?

change means no more of the failed bush/cheney/boehner/mcconnel economic policy / failed neo-con war monger policy

trickle down success assumes wall street investment in the US economy .. not wall street investing US fat cat tax breaks in the Raynong Mazda plant or the Guadong / Shenzen textile mills.
wall street investment globalization has rendered Ray-Gun's trickle down economics bad for amerika in the 21st century

O'Bama wants to end tax breaks for outsourcing .. Mc want to encourage outsourcing & the shipping of US union jobs overseas.
saw a thing last evening on the outsourcing of airplane maintenance.. $38 per hour in the US vs $3 in Honduras.
the cheap tickets are way cool & only a few crashes per year are attributed to poor manitenance.

sabang

^ Don't even bother with those tired old Republican mantra's. The American people are speaking right now.