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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:43 AM Original message |
“he aint rich and he aint privileged” --Rev Wright on Barack |
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olkaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. wonderful framing |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Making nearly a million bucks a year sounds pretty rich to me. |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Where do you get that he earned a million a year? NT |
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goddess40 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. He earned it and he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Did he slip through the "oppressive" white net? |
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goddess40 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Some do many don't make it |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Look at the educational challenges he had to overcome |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. Anybody can sign into Occidental, Columbia & Harvard. |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The Obamite argument that somehow Obama is a victim is ludicrous |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:38 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. some of us white Americans are also first generation |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. On scholarship and with student loans, which were only paid off quite recently. |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Thats often good financial sense, not a sign of lack of income |
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democrattotheend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. He is now, but wasn't always |
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malik flavors (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
12. This is where Obama spent much of his childhood: |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was a manager for a US oil company under the Suharto dictatorship. |
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BigDDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-17-08 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
14. "he ain't rich" |
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