Should Barack Obama have to pay back the welfare his mother collected?

(CHICAGO)(June 16, 2007) For young people today it is difficult to imagine the arrogance and corruption that characterized welfare recipients in the 1960's and 70's. Barack Obama wants to bring back the 'good old days- of welfare fraud, when his mother was 'ripping of the man.- Obama, of course, is a master pickpocket. But he doesn't pick our wallets, he picks at our emotions, speaking boldly with the use of emphatic but hollow phrases. And every so often he drops in a zinger, just to confirm that he knows everyone else wants to 'rip off the man- too. A vote for Barack Obama is a vote to bring back the old days of welfare thievery. Exhibit A: The Obama Family. Today's Chicago Tribune (June 16th) has a huge picture of Obama telling us to have 'responsible- fathers. What about responsible mothers? Dropped into the Tribune story is this gem: '[Obama] noted that, without support from his father (who was in Kenya siring more children and drinking up good whiskey) he and his mother at times turned to food stamps to make ends meet.- I found this reference startling, because I did not remember any admission of welfare use by Obama and his mother. I checked my notes on 'Dreams From My Father- (dreams after a night of whoring and whisky in Kenya?) and found no reference either. So I started digging. It appears that the Barack-Obama-On-Welfare claim originated in Time magazine in a story by Joe Klein. See: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1546302,00.html. Later, Larry King picked up the story and asked Obama about it on CNN. Then the issue faded. Until June 15th. In Klein's story the line is slightly different, and more arrogant: 'For example, I was going to a fancy prep school, and my mother was on food stamps while she was getting her Ph.D.- Well, the origins of the Obama-On-Welfare reflect a callous indifference to 'ripping off the man.- Ms AMBER if you can read this entire story is in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.....it is a NEWSPAPER based in CHICAGO where Mr. Obama is SENATOR! eightman you are missing the point this is WELFARE FRAUD, she didn't qualify for foodstamps on her 4,800 dollar a month income!

Public Comments

1. yes he should
2. when cheney and haliburton return their corporatre wekfare then sure
3. Are you obsessed with Obama or what? You always print these supposedly true stories about Obama but where are the links. You never put up any links. edit: Oh I see the link now. and the link you posted in your false made up story doesn't work. Nice try though.
4. Another smear narrative from you? If nothing more, you're persistent with your lies. I just look at your avatar and know I'm about to earn 2 points. Next!
5. Oh, come on. If I come from a poor family and become affluent DECADES later, should I pay back any state aid that I was granted when I was poor? You do realize that college is really freaking expensive, and that if you have the discipline to spend your money on college instead of luxuries (like many spoiled Americans), then you should be commended, not demonized. Quit being a jerk.
6. So you are blaming him for his parent's actions. Look what your parents created...........in the mirror.......
7. The source of this column is the Contrarian Commentary blog (http://www.contrariancommentary.com/community/Home/tabid/36/mid/363/newsid363/125/Default.aspx ), run by Andy Martin, who describes himself as: "Andy is America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He is a Middle East expert who is also Executive Director of the Washington-based Revolutionary War Research Center. He has spent 36 years in and out of the Middle East and spent much of 2003 in Iraq." A news story out of the New Times Broward-Palm Beach written July 31, 2003 said this of Martin: "Martin, of course, is mad. Quite mad. ,,, The would-be senator is one of the most prolific and compulsive lawsuit filers in the United States, a first-class shadow-dwelling fugitive from justice, and a perennial also-ran political candidate whose stance on the issues has changed about as often as Michael Jackson's proboscis. ... The Illinois Supreme Court, however, refused to admit him to the bar, pointing to a military psychiatric exam that allegedly found him to have personality defects that include delusions involving both paranoia and grandeur." http://www.ilsenate.com/news.asp?ID=20
8. wow, if that isn't a gross misrepresentation of the truth I don't know what is. She's obviously a racist and doesn't want to openly admit her only problem with Barack Obama is his skin color and so she makes up stories to try to pursuade others her way.
9. Doesn't it impress you the least little bit that a child born into such a situation could now be a serious contender for the office of President? His education and success in life didn't come easy to him. You might take a lesson from his story, which is, if you work hard enough you can do anything you want. So stop wasting your time as an Ann Coulter wannabe and get on with your life. I'm tired of your bashing Obama, which seems to be your only purpose in life. Obama in '08!
10. if Hillary returns the stuff she stole from the White House.