Chicago Tribune: The Struggling Obamas

NewsBusters.org ^ | 4/20/2008 | Michael M. Bates

[Jaxter]

"In the meantime, I know we can depend on the Chicago Tribune and other mainstream media outlets to confirm all those accounts proving that the Family Obama actually experienced the difficult challenges they're now claiming."

Phhhhhht...phhht...holding breath...phhht...turning blue...

[goodnesswins]

Perfect proof this guy shouldn’t be responsible for this country’s future.....couldn’t even manage his own finances well enough to keep the creditors at bay....

[goodnesswins]

MEANT to type .....Perfect proof this guy shouldn’t be responsible for this country’s future.....couldn’t even manage his own finances well enough, while making $200,000/yr, to keep the creditors at bay....

[#1CTYankee]

Mike, I'm at a loss for words.

That's saying something.

[Mike Bates]

Guess I should have used that ol’ /sarc tag, huh?

[Mike Bates]

But he TRIED and, in the final analysis, that’s what matters. Or so we’re told. Intentions are what count.

[hinckley buzzard]

Like the Clinton's, the details of the Obama family history are largely the product of an overactive imagination. Of course they couldn't find the records. They wouldn't be able to find a unicorn either, no matter how hard they looked. Obama debt receipts, meet Tuszla snipers.

[Jaxter]

The /sarc tag was a given. ;)

[Ilya Mourometz]

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that the Obama’s are truthful about this.

What were they spending their money on? Then they got their sweetheart dirty deal with Rezko on their new mansion. Something stinks here, big time, one way or another.

Keep in mind that his income would not include the normal expenses that are covered by taxpayers, such as travel expenses, vehicles, etc.

[Mike Bates]

I’m sure that’s a fleeting condition.

[Ilya Mourometz]

Credit reports are easily obtained, and routinely obtained by companies that are vetting potential employees. The information will generally go back seven years. Someone with access can easily prove the Obama’s claims one way or another. AND get information on what they were spending their money on.

[holden]

Everyone talks about the Obamba's being scary. Who'd'a thunk B&M would take this bent, making clear misrepresentations about their bills and phone calls that would hasten their being paid, as most companies have people to make such calls to shirkers seeking to have corporations' profits be redistributed to the "historically disadvantaged".

Oh, I have no doubt Michelle found herself getting a call here and there about a bar tab, "Wally-World prescription," or medical check-up Barry neglected to pay. Just as he wasn't making the bed, I'm sure there were other things he wasn't doing that irked her.

But an AGI over $200K every year for the past seven only proves B&M were not really "feeling the pain" of taxpayers living "paycheck-to-paycheck."

HF

[kittymyrib]

My husband and I have been married 45 years. We have never made more than $85,000 with both of us working. Now I AM bitter!

[chiefqc]

I wish I could feel the pain by making over $200,000.00 per year.

I know it’s painful, but someone has got to feel it though.

[ChocChipCookie]

Maybe they shouldn’t have bought a house they couldn’t afford.

[kjo]

They were both affirmative action babies; their way in life greased. All they had to do was show up and go through the motions.

[IM2MAD]

Were they svoiding sniper fire while getting all those bills and calls from collection agencies?

[#1CTYankee]

"I’m sure that’s a fleeting condition."

Yup, I'm okay now. ;-D

[Cowboy Bob]

They were both affirmative action babies; their way in life greased.

I'm sure that Obama took full advantage of all the Affirmative Action handouts the US Government has to offer - although as a child of a White Woman, and a Foreign National, he should not have qualified for any of it.