Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.
#110 J “That is ONE of the benifits of wealth that society offers.”
No, that’s a benefit that your families work provided.
OWNED
These arguments are tiresome. We have trillions being stolen from us by the bankers, we nearly had a nuclear war with Russia a little while ago, the climate is changing, the bees are disappearing, we’ve got journalists and protesters roughed up at the conventions, iffy voting practices, we have people starving while there is plenty of food. And taxes are the best thing you can think to argue about? Oh you poor rich people and your burden; come back and whine at me when it’s 91%, like it was under Ike.
George W Bush has a half mexican cousin who was accused of harassing and beating his ex-wife.
How is this relevant? it isn’t but its about as relevant as this obama expose’
#114 LILI said, “come back and whine at me when it’s 91%, like it was under Ike.”
Yeah, life sucks when Dems control congress for more than 4 years. LOL!
# 112 Paddy the Ignorant Shit Talker
“No, that’s a benefit that your families work provided.”
So, the poor white kids parents didn’t work hard enough at the factory and therefore their kid doesn’t get that benefit?
You are so fucked up!!
#101, SL,
Yes, I must be nothing more than a cretin, because I refuse to accept that your perversely claimed “right” to healthcare or any other service you cannot provide for yourself places some legitimate claim of obligation on my part to provide it.
The problem is that you still want some programs to be paid for by society. Police, fire protection, snow removal, military, parks, courts, bridges and roads, harbor dredging, etc. Picking and choosing which services you want to participate in is a little difficult when most of them are inter-meshed.
If the majority of Americans want a single payer health care system, I can think of no reason why we shouldn’t have one. If the majority of Americans want to build ten new super aircraft carriers then great to that. Just because you will never get to fly off of one of the new carriers is not a satisfactory reason to halt the project.
#102, Cow-Paddy Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath,
You are OWNED.
The height of your contribution to this discourse.
There are several posters that I disagree with. I will credit them as having made intelligent and thoughtful posts. They are still wrong, but I do acknowledge their contribution. Your contribution? Right, you are owned.
#120 LOL!
Good argument. ROFL
#121 – O’Furniture
You may not like The Fuse’s arguments, but he’s right. He OWNS you.
#122 “You may not like The Fuse’s arguments, but he’s right.”
Nothing to like or dislike. He didn’t present a counter argument. LOL
#123 – O’Furniture
>>LOL.
Giggle giggle. Titter titter! Snicker!
Je suis desolé, mon ami, mais tu es possédé.
Go gack to thinking about 2024.
This just in, how did I know, Auntie Obama is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. She’s living in public housing that U.S. citizens should be getting and she gave Obama a $250 illegal campaign contribution.
Way to go O bama!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945TEE01&show_article=1
“The comments are just stupefying.”
Ten percent of the people exist so that you don’t need to spend time with the other ninety percent.