If we had an inquisitive and fair mainstream media, it might bring up this 2008 Barack Obama ad.
The ad presents Barack Obama as a hard-working man with mainstream values. It claims that Obama “worked his way through college and Harvard Law” and then makes a pair of claims regarding welfare. The ad, titled “Dignity,” claims that Obama “passed a law to move people from welfare to work” and “slashed the [welfare] roles by 80 percent.” It closes, stating that Barack Obama will “never forget the dignity that comes from work.” The ad cites no actual bill signed or supported by Obama, who was already on the record opposing the 1996 welfare reform and promising to undo it. Obama was not in Congress when the then-Republican-controlled Congress passed it and President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
Fast forward four years from that 2008 ad. Barack Obama is president and his Department of Health and Human Services has systematically increased welfare roles and done away with the heart of the 1996 bipartisan welfare reform. The latter came last week, as Obama’s HHS exploited the election year and a divided Congress to gut the 1996 welfare reform which required work of welfare recipients. Those work requirements helped shrink welfare roles by about half after roughly four decades of steady welfare roll growth.
The Obama administration has also destigmatized welfare through a series of ads targeted at middle- and lower-income Americans in both English and Spanish. In the English versions of the radio ads, which the Tatler first noticed back in April, food stamps are re-branded SNAP, and the ads encourage Americans to call a 1-800 number to find out if they qualify. The ad’s positive, peppy tone notes that it is possible to qualify even if you have a job and own a car and a home.
An actor plays a role. An Obama supporter appears on a welfare roll.
In case anyone is not getting it, Art’s point is that there is a typo near the end of the second paragraph where Mr. Preston has written “welfare roles” where he means “welfare rolls”.
“In a campaign speech over the weekend, President Obama even suggested that Americans who succeed in business are no better or more hard working than anyone else, and that they could not succeed without government assistance. In other words, says President Obama, Mitt Romney, architect of a multi-million dollar company that fixed dozens of other companies, is in reality just an overgrown welfare queen. And so you are you, if you have a job or own or run a business of your own.”
For my scurrilous comment of the day–actually, the successes both civic government and business are able to have are due to the shield and protection put in place by the military, and thus the military should be in charge.
For my not-scurrilous comment of the day–and the taxpayer makes the successes of all three possible, and hence he should be in charge.
Taxpayer. In charge.
As far as BOOBama’s statement that people didn’t build their own businesses without the governments help, I think those businesses are built in spite of the government.
But, If the government deserves credit for building those businesses it most certainly deserves credit for those that have failed during this administration and those that have not been started.
“The latter came last week, as Obama’s HHS exploited the election year and a divided Congress to gut the 1996 welfare reform which required work of welfare recipients. Those work requirements helped shrink welfare roles by about half after roughly four decades of steady welfare roll growth.”
Well of course, silly. Socialists like Obama would like nothing better than to have everybody in the country dependent on the government for everything. Remember that cartoon “The Life of Julia?” The woman in that ad was totally dependent on the government for everything. And did you notice that Julia had a kid and was never married? Sounds just like a black woman on welfare, or at least the stereotype of one, a stereotype Obama has no problems either cultivating or encouraging. Shame on him for wanting to take us back to the bad old days of the 1970s, where poor women actually got paid for the more kids they had. By keeping people dependent on government for everything, Obama is actually destroying the working class and treating them like helpless slaves. And for that alone this man should be hated. Because taking away a person’s self-respect is the worst crime you can be guilty of since it destroys a human spirit, and that CANNOT be tolerated.
Obama needs to be sent back to Chicago in November. He is, by far, one of the worst presidents we ever had. I just hope he doesn’t destroy too many more lives before he leaves.
obama is an insult to America and everything it stands for. I doubt he has ever been on a payroll that wasn’t funded in some way by the government. So much for his business acumen.
I know my brothers & sister out there are already tired of their ungrateful children & family members coming to the kitchen table to get what we worked hard for stating the same reasons Obama and the half-indian senator wanna-be sais. I do not think that this type of reasoning is resonating with the working public who have gone through these type dramas at home from moochers. But I could be wrong. Romney needs to say it in plain english so the general working public can completely understand how this rhetoric does not and should not work.
He doesn’t think about it as “welfare reform”, he thinks about it as “obama voter acquisition”
I’m going to call the number & find out if my wife and I qualify for “SNAP.” Just curious where it starts and where it ends. I would laugh my ass off if the Government considered us “needy.” That would prove to me that they really are only interested in getting more of us on the dole – not those who actually need help, but anyone and everyone. “It’s easy!” Right…
John Stossel – When People Don’t Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvtEXMG_Wk
Tell me more about the job(s) Obama did to work his way through college and law school. Were these real jobs where actual coworkers can be found who remember working with him? Or were these imaginary jobs that never really happened? (I’ve heard that efforts have been made to find fellow students of Obama’s at Columbia but not one person who was there at the same time as he allegedly attended can actually be found to say that they remember him.)
something isn’t right when the word obama appears in the same sentence as the word dignity.
The Obama credo:
Government built the roads that led to the car, the dams that led to the discovery of electricty, the internet that allowed the computer to be invented and Solyndra which will bring us all “green” energy.
The individual is worthless it is only through the benevolence of government that we progress. So in November, all the “worthless” individuals that believe in their self worth, should vote to give this president a swift return to his community organizing endeavors.
I would like to see proof of the colleges through which Obama worked his way. Alas, my mental picture of the hard working Amerticans who supposedly contributed to the success of American entrepreneurs is those welfare mamas being carried to boats during Hurricane Katrina.
How can anyone say with a straight face that welfare was ever reformed? 1 in 7 on food stamps and we force ourselves to believe it was reformed? Welfare reformed by a commiecrat such as Bill Clinton? L. O. L. Obamacare will be twisted as much as social security and welfare to include those never intended to benefit originally. Mark my words.
Welfare is a specific program, which was reformed with modest work requirements. (Ones which I don’t believe Obama has the legal right to waive, incidentally.) Food stamps are a separate government program, with nothing but an income cap ending your eligibility — and since the states determine the income cap and the feds pay half the bills, there’s a built-in incentive to expand the program and allow the state government to buy voters at half price.
I have some composite buddies that allegedly knew Barry while faking attendance at Occidental. They said it took Barry took 4 months to figure out how to change the Bong water. Sometine he would mistake the bong for the beer … living proof, don’t drink bong water.
This ad is so telling as to Obama’s, or whoever he is, competence as a deceiver. This ad straightforwardly appeals to the America we knew. You know, work hard; get off welfare; better yourself and thereby better the country that you love. He got elected with this pitch and the one about post partisan nirvana. He knew that would resonate with the patriots who love their country as it is.
Keep in mind he has been planning the steps to take to “transform America” all his adult life. Don’t be at all surprised when he arrests Romney within the last two weeks of October. Either that or Romney mysteriously dies of a heart attack.
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