Not surprised....

Obama was/is the child of a single mother.
Obama was at one time in his life dirt poor.
Obama and his wife was at one time up to their eyeballs in student debt.
Obama still clears under 800k over 450K of which is his presidential salary. BTW he has to pay the light bill and the water bill for the white house and he doesn't even get to replace or turn off the lights when he dont need to. Apparently most presidents are in for a sticker shock a month or 2 after they move in the WH from the bills they cant even cut down on.
Obama paid 20.5% of his income in taxes in 2011 - which seems rather quaintly steep compared to the Mitt "I've never paid less than 13% in taxes for any year and when you include the charitable contributions its over 20%" Romney. Oh gee, charitable contributions eh ... If I recall that Carl Rove outfit is considered a charity innit ?

Not taking sides or anything really but these are indisputable facts about Obama.

Dont underestimate the power of privelege even if you have not inherited it yet.
Mitt was never in his life going to worry about his next meal. If Mitt had a choice of taking a 20K job now or having to wait for a 40K tomorow, he had no pressures forcing him to take the 20K now. So many many many times in my life I have had to take the job available now so I can have food on the table. Years and years and years of having to put the now in front of the best have given me a diminished career and life, good as my life is, I can sell see where it could have been far better.

Good or not is not for me to decide. But Obama"s life is a lot closer to my life than Mitt will ever be and ironically that includes his stint as president.

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Srinath.

This silver spoon stuff is BS. Sew would never raise up the topic if a Kennedy was running on the democratic ticket….

I’m a bit confused as to why a poor background is an automatic badge of honor?...

As Tevye says in Fiddler; it's no sin to be poor, but it's no great honor either...

If the surgeon about to save your life came from a privileged background, would you say you’d rather have someone who came up from the slums since he’s more like  you?

WebsterMark wrote on 08/20/12 at 09:43:03:


You know quoting someone is a little bit facetious and convenient.

You can find some one who has said anything and everything ... especially if you want to use it out of context.
Including this gem - "I feel like taking a huge dump on his chest"
yea that's what she said about Mitt Romney - that is the out of context part for ya ...

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Srinath.

Systematic dismantling of consumer protections and slackening of banking regulations (mostly by Republicans but sometimes aided by moderate Democrats like Clinton) is the primary contributor to this nation's bankruptcy - not the current administration.  I'm not particularly happy with their record so far but I think they were handed a huge mess and I honestly don't believe anyone else would have done any better; possibly worse.  However, so far as Ryan's "silver spoon" is concerned, I have no problem with fact that they made money off government contracts.  In fact, if I understand correctly, their fortune was actually founded on highway construction mandated by the Eisenhower administration.  Those were some excellent public works projects that helped to put a lot of folks to work after the war.  These days they would be called "stimulus".

I think I'd take a wise beggar over a crooked rich guy.
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Srinath.

I think I'd take a wise beggar over a crooked rich guy.

oh yea? go take out a home loan from a wise beggar.