Obama tells Ohio audience of own family struggles

Associated Press ^ | 9/8/10 | Staff

[Nachum]

President Barack Obama is getting a little personal about the sluggish economy, telling a Cleveland audience about his own family's struggles and hardships. Obama noted Wednesday that his grandfather served in World War II while his grandmother toiled in factories back home. He was raised by a single mother who put herself through school and got up before sunrise to help him with schoolwork. And, the president says, first lady Michelle Obama's father kept working in spite of suffering from multiple sclerosis that forced him to walk with crutches.

[Nachum]

And he also had to walk a mile for a Camel...

[Nachum]

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[mommyq]

I’m wondering if any of them suffered the heartbreak of psoriasis?

[biggredd1]

Moochelle Obama didnt even know what graveyard her father with crutches is buried in. Ya think her dad still votes??

[9YearLurker]

Our brilliant president needed help with his school work?

[Doogle]

FAMILY STRUGGLES?....GUY NEVER WORKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE......
GOT EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING FROM QUESTIONABLE SOURCES.......AND SKIPS THROUGH HIS EXISTENCE AS A NARCISSISTIC WANNABEE...

BOOHOO YA PHONEY

[kaehurowing]

Must have been a real ordeal for him to go to the top-rated prep school in the country.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Was a-farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor;
My crops I lay into the banker's store.
My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been working, mister, since the day I was born
Now I worry all the time like I never did before
'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see
This world is such a great and a funny place to be;
Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

[biggredd1]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/14/white-house-retracts-ladys-father-buried-burr-oak/

[Question Liberal Authority]

got up before sunrise to help him with schoolwork.

I thought it was for the morning call to prayer.

[Cicero]

"I was a deprived child, you know."

[Tijeras_Slim]

“I was born a poor black child.”

[CT]

I see democrat turnout in primaries (link please) is the lowest in 80 years. No wonder president ME came out of vacation to campaign. He’s even taken to telling stories about how hard his family worked. As you can see, none of it rubbed off on his lazy ass. LOL.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Our brilliant president needed help with his school work?

You have to admit he mastered Teleprompter 101 in his early years. His use of the word "present", the phrase "that's above my pay grade" and "it is Bush's fault" have served him well.

[purplelobster]

Oh the drama. Barry has spent the summer on a series of luxury vacations while huge numbers of people are floundering and unemployed due to Barry's incompetent handling of the economy. He gets back from vacation and wrings his hands over his hardships. Truth of the matter is that he was raised by his Bank Vice President Grandmother in a privileged upbringing of private schools and affirmative action scholarships. He keeps trying to pretend otherwise. The unwarranted self-pity is revolting.

[Nachum]

- Workin’ for a livin’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N2CANatVYQ

[wac3rd]

They found time to get Little Hussein to the Little Red Church, where they drilled in what his buddy Frank Marshall Davis has told him over vodka and cocaine.

[reagandemocrat]

Had to walk 5 miles to school every day, in the snow, up-hill, both ways.

[knarf]

Y'see ... My mama was just a hair short of a rebellious whore, n' sidled up next to my papa, a black muslim man that would just love to have a white chick in his stable, but she was a little smart too and got him to marry her (I think), but never mind ... I never had no American upbringin' ... jes' some sweet soundin' Islam stuff in Jakarta.

Wanna' hear me recite it?

I CAN, y'know ...

Anyway, I soon figgered out I didn't really have a papa so Ma married (I think), another black muslim guy n'he tried to give me a diff'rint name n'all.

I tell ya' ... it ain't easy for a mulatto in a Muslim nation no matter who says he's your daddy and what you say n' do in school ... you still a mulatto.

So when I got to Hawaii, I thought I had it made ... but mama left and I never saw her again and some guy Frank was always around to be my friend and help me grow n' understan' things about a lot of different life things ... politics, sex, guys, politics ...

[Rebelbase]

I guess he was speaking between mouthfuls of Kobe Beef?