Michelle Obama becomes GOP Target (CBS)

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Michelle Obama becomes GOP Target (CBS)
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Sun, 06-22-2008 - 4:21pm

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Registered: 01-02-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 5:41pm

"Don't you know that Republicans expect people to fend for themselves,we shouldn't have to help the poor"

That's just not true at all.

*This* Republican (along with the ones I know personally) believes it is the moral and right thing to help the less fortunate, and believes "charity" is handled better by private organizations/churches/individuals than by the government. *This* republican believes it is better to give willingly, on my own accord and conviction, than to have it come out of my paycheck, pay some bureaucrats to manage it, and divy it up based on legislation.

It's offensive and inaccurate to say Republican's expect people to fend for themselves and that we don't help the less fortunate. In fact...I *think* there are stats showing that self proclaimed conservatives give a greater PERCENTAGE of their income to charity.
(after a VERY quick google: http://www.a1newspage.com/?p=46 and http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org/ma/2007/66_on_charitable_giving.html)

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Registered: 01-02-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 6:07pm

"BTW, I am mixed race one of those being white and the other American Indian.So, no I am not racist against myself."

Aahhhhh..that's right, minorities can't be racist....

" Saying someone is black and on crack IS a racist statement."

Unless it's true, of course.

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Registered: 08-30-2004
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 6:13pm

Point taken - and acknowledged.


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Registered: 08-30-2004
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 6:17pm

OK, stop making sense, because it's starting to bug me that I'm now agreeing with your statements, lol.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 7:30pm
Most people who have pulled themselves out of poverty do not talk or whine about it.....they quietly accept their lives.
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Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 7:37pm

Aahhhhh..that's right, minorities can't be racist....


I am sorry I don't recall saying this. Please let me see where I stated this. I stated I wasn't racist against myself. I don't hate/dislike/or belittle my mom for being white(or any other white person for that matter). I love who I am and what it took to get me here.


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Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 7:42pm

I have NEVER said all white people have had it easy. I am one white person that didn't have it easy so to

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Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 7:43pm
Number eight was the ONLY one about race. The other 9 could relate to any race, gender, religion, or culture. You are the one who took "white" people out of the equation.
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Registered: 06-23-2008
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 7:47pm
Was this based on tax returns or what people said they gave?
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Registered: 08-30-2004
Tue, 06-24-2008 - 8:21pm

Now that you ask that, how do "they" even know how much money people give to charity?

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