Obama tells Ohio audience of own family struggles

Associated Press ^ | 9/8/10 | Staff

[Argus]

Obama’s parents and grandparents may have had hardships, but he never did. It’s not something you “inherit”, bozo.

[COUNTrecount]

Our brilliant president needed help with his school work?

Yeah, it was in Indonesian.

[Nachum]

Very cool.

[MHGinTN]

The whole family should have paid heed that ‘Crest has been shown to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.’

[As an aside, I used that phrase from the box of Crest to show my sixth graders an example of how to memorize a saying so they could have it in their arsenal of quotes in life, thus expanding their vocabulary and their brain power. I would bet more than 60% can still recite it, and that class was in Fairfax, VA, decades ago!]

[Truth is a Weapon]

What a doofus. Is there anything more insufferable when times are tough than some butthole telling you about what a bad time he had? Who cares what you have already been through?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Little bee sucks the blossom
Big bee get the honey.
Darky raise the cotton,
White man get the money!

Take me back to Tulsa,
I’m too young to marry,
Take me back to Tulsa,
I’m too young to marry.

[COUNTrecount]

Obama also says that his family depended on government programs.

Like what? Poi stamps?

Tuition credits to the most expensive private school in Hawaii?

Foreign student loans to college and law school?

Do tell, Barry.

[Nachum]

Which government programs? Are there records?

[sportutegrl]

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues.
We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four
hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

[timeflies]

Good one!

[SkyPilot]

[COUNTrecount]

LOL!!!!

Those records are with all the other ones.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My drifting memory,goes back to the spring of 2009,
When I was just a child in mama’s arms.

My daddy lounged around a planed that someday we would leave,
Our rundown mortgaged underwater home.

Then one night I heard my daddy saying to my mama, he’d finally saved enough to go.
California was his dream of paradise for he had seen Democrats on TV that told him so.

California cotton fields, where Obama camps were full of worried men with broken dreams.
California cotton fields, was as close to wealth as daddy ever came.

[Iron Munro]

I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion

[ReluctantDragon]

Luxury. We had to get up a half hour before we went to bed, work twenty four hours at the mill and pay the mill owner for the privilege of working there...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I was born a poor black child.”

ROFLMAO! One of the funniest movies, EVER. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Patches...’

ROFLMAO! I swear that FReepers are some of the funniest people on Earth! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

ROFLMAO! I’m DYIN’ here!!!

[meyer]

"Obama noted Wednesday that his grandfather served in World War II..."

For which country?

[meyer]

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

At least you had your own legs to walk with. I had to share legs with my sister. Gym class was pure terror!