Posted on 03/19/2008 11:33:05 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
There's been lots of stories in the blogosphere the last couple days about Obama throwing his white grandmother under the bus when he tried to compare her to his racist preacher.
What also needs to be appreciated is that he could really care less about his black Kenyan grandmother either. Together the Obamas made 1.67 million in 2005:
In 2005, their income was $1.67 million, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.
This helped them to guy a mansion:
That year, as the Tribune reported, the Obamas moved to a $1.65-million Georgian Revival mansion in Hyde Park, which features a thousand-bottle wine cellar and bookcases made of Honduran mahogany.
The Obamas also earned just under a million dollars in 2006:
White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported $991,296 in income in 2006, boosted by a $506,618 payout in advances and royalties for his books, according to returns released by his campaign Monday.
What does it say about a man whose family earned $2,660,000 in the space of two years, and who bought a mansion in that time, but continues to allow his grandmother to live in a "tiny hut?"
He trashes his white grandmother who raised him and is sick, and allows his black grandmother to live in a hut while he lives in a mansion with a THOUSAND BOTTLE WINE CELLAR!!!
How much change can he really deliver when he can't even change his own grandmother's dismal living conditions?
I guess it’s too late for B Hussein’s buddy Tony to help grandma get a new house.
"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, on Friday.
That quote is from December, 2007!
Obamas campaign coffers are much than 100 million.. The big secret is whatever is left after the election BELONGS PERSONALLY TO OBAMA... Talk about the lottery.. Same with Hillary and mclaim..
Oh, these poor people—so put upon by the white racist society!
What phonies!!!
Just wow.
This pilgrim is in for a bad couple of weeks here. He’s going to learn what happens when you mess with grandmama.
(I have visions of that shoe commercial with that pro-basketball player would dress up as grandma and hammer all comers at one on one. - that was one of the funniest commercials ever)
No good can come to a man who disses the grandma that raised him.
Don’t forget Rev. Wrong Way Wright’s $733,000 home in a posh area of Chi-town.
I missed that part: Grandma RAISED him, and he threw her under the BUS!!
He dissed, in effect, his own MOTHER!!!!!
When this all starts sinking in, he is going to get hammered.
I had no idea that Granny was Mom. How about THAT.
Maybe his grandma likes living in a “tiny hut”?
It is possible that Grandma doesn't want to change her life. A friend of my dad's grew up real poor, in the hills of Kentucky. When he made money, and mom and dad were still living in the old home, he bought new kitchen appliances, offered a new home, would have done anything.
Mom and dad refused. For years and years they lived with those new kitchen appliances and never learned to use them.
So is grandmama baby going to buy her a new house?
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