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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa  Facts, boi, facts. Bring them forth. Of course he's not a common man ... in terms of ability, or vision, or ambition.
He's a common man in terms of his economic origins. He had no silver spoon. He had no leg up.
"The incremental progression is too orchestrated"?
Who orchestrated it? The Illuminati? |
Read the wiki, and then look at the links the original wiki references. Occidental College, Ivy League/Columbia & Harvard ? Hyde Park, South Shore neighborhoods and the Englewood thing, that was an urban renewal project. No, O'bama has impeccable contacts when you consider who he rubbed elbows with in his earlier days. He's not where he is because he came from dirt poor nothing. I work for a non-profit healthcare startup, trust me there's big money for certain people that are ground floor on that circuit. Medicaid and other government programs fund these and while the money isn't as big as some industries, it certainly isn't poverty by any stretch of the imagination when those of education are setting up the show, they pay themselves quite well.
You ask who orchestrated it, so tell me a poor, black, youth that winds up in this teenage cycle turns his life around without the right influences and opportunities ?
"He wrote that he used
alcohol,
marijuana, and
cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind". "
I'm not naive. You shouldn't be either, nobody just wakes up one day and starts down this path without the right mentor(s) in place. And for every O'bama that is portrayed, there are those that are already in the pecking order. When I was in college, I looked into internships too. They just happened to be filled. About 10 years ago, I worked for a guy who didn't reward my services with a raise, but coincidentally we had 5 interns that summer, CEO's kids on the Ft Lauderdale summer vacation plan, the company paid them like any other employee, even picked up the tab on where they stayed. Yeah, I know firsthand where my raise went that year. That jerk even wanted me to train the little brats. It is what it is, what they don't pay the rest of us, that's more they have for themselves and it's a lot of money to leave there every year. There's what you get paid vs what it was really funded for and you might be astonished by the differences. Not everyone gets the same deal in this world. Some significantly better, others worse. How else would one explain why there are High School kids driving nicer cars than some adults ? Those fundraisers that I'm certain O'bama has attended a few in his career, they aren't cheap. The current employer, well they sponsor golf tournaments and so on. The price of admission is well beyond the means of the truly dirt poor, even middle class of this nation. The invite isn't extended to the families that live in the ghetto, barrio or trailer park.
