Here is your official notice that Hope and Change have perished from the earth, forever. A struggling young pregnant Indiana mother of three was fired from her job because of pregnancy complications because that is how the market stays “efficient,” so she is selling off a personal letter that Obama wrote her last November in order to avoid being evicted. This sounds like a better recession recovery plan than the current one! Obama can send everyone a handwritten letter promising them that their backbreaking poverty is just an illusion that will go away, which everyone can then sell and continue on with their poverty but without foregoing their cancer treatments.
Yes, that one happened too, from a different lady in Michigan who lost her health insurance. “I know times are tough,” Obama wrote to this lady, “but knowing there are folks out there like you and your husband gives me confidence that things will keep getting better!” It’s good that Obama thinks at least these people are going to improve the economy.
From The Lookout:
Destiny Mathis, a young woman in Indiana, reached out to President Obama for a sign of hope in tough economic times, and was initially thrilled to receive a handwritten reply from the president. Now, however, the same economic hardships that prompted her to write to Obama last November have prompted her to put up the letter for sale on an auction website–marking the ninth such sale of an Obama letter that the online auction service has handled.
Well, at least that’s nine fewer people Obama owes anything to when they complain about their problems to him. [The Lookout]
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How much is my new Obama birth certificate coffee mug worth?
In Ameros or hobo beans?
Nothing. They are all fakes.
AUTOPEN™ LIBEL!
I have an autographed Richard Nixon three-dollar bill, is that worth anything?
Goddamn is this a great Country, or what?
I'll start early²: USA! USA! USA!
² Might start drinkin' early, too.
~
Takes money to buy booze
Ooh, ooh. Does this mean that I can print and sell all of Barry's emails to me? I'm gonna be rich, bitches! Um, he personally sent them to me, right?
Only to you and me.
I'm thinking of buying a beachfront place in St. John, how about yourself?
~
I recently heard that Scottsdale, Arizona finally is getting rid of their unemployed deadbeats, so maybe there.
Better sell it now before Barry's stock hits bottom…
Too bad she didn't take advantage of the giant abortionarium that planned parenthood was running out there before Mitch Daniels pulled all their funding.
What time does the market for human organs open?
It opened in New Delhi several decades ago.
Is that how the expression Delhi belly started?
Kidneys in the PRC Executed Prisoner Exchange are holding steady at RMB 65,000. We are outsourcing organ transplant raw material production to China.
Did that Sarah Palin X-Box ever get sold for $1.1 million on eBay?
Good luck to this real mama grizzly, if only she had a private Weiner tweet to sell instead.
Sarah Palin's box isn't worth more than a dollar.
For the snatch and grab (S&G), or would it be the clean and jerk (C&J)?
Maybe she can get a good price for some of her offspring. There are bound to be some more 'oopsies' in that family.
Yes, but the rich got to keep their tax cuts so it's all good.
Dear Mr. President,
The Conservatives hate you, have always hated you and will continue to hate you. If you really want to help women like Destiny and the millions of others like her, you will cease abetting the anti-American extremists from further jackhammering the economy, destroying the middle class, sabotaging jobs and stop all the bipartisan bewlshit . In other words, call these assholes out, y'know, like Weiner woulda done.
They say politics is "the art of the possible." Perhaps if the American electorate were so impossibly stupid Mr Obama could get us some of those Euro-Canadian socialisms that would so greatly benefit us.
Until then, just more tax cuts.
The thing is, even the Democrats' proposals when they controlled Congress were to the right of what opinion polls showed the majority of Americans supported; but they believe the Washingon media's center-right views represent everyone outside the village, and have no balls so they pre-emptively capitulated on everything, thus the too-small stimulus, watered-down health care reform, and keeping of the Bush policy of not taxing the rich.
Yeah, see, that's why I sometimes think the best solution is to let the conservatives utterly destroy this nation. The problem is that, once they succeed in doing that, and everybody is either a lord or a serf, somehow it will still be the fault of the liberals.
P.S. — But do us a favor. Keep the pics of your junk to yourself.
Speak for yourself, darling.
Barry, you can "follow" me all night long.
Strange how adopting all the policies of the Republicans doesn't lead to electoral victory. Maybe the Dems should try something else for a while.
And in Barry's case, they still call him names and accuse him of destroying America.
You would think that someone would point it out to him.
And just look where that got Rep. Weiner. Um, ok, maybe that's not so good an example.
Gifts of the Magi President.
From the annals of self-parody: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/14/indiana-...
At lease all she's selling is the letter…
So far.
Pawn Stars is the only thing keeping our civilization from crumbling.
Would the Pawn Stars autograph assessor put a high dollar on an autopen?
I've got a Dubya letter I could sell. Dubya didn't actually write it, and it's entirely plagiarized from the letters of other people, but it's really his.
So, Chuck Norris wrote it for him?
I'll trade you a Doctor's Quick Weight Loss book signed by and a personal copy of El Rushbo, never used.
Well, at least the Yahoo commenters are providing an outpouring of sympathy for Destiny. It's touching, really.
I went to check them out, and:
"There are no comments yet
Comments have been closed for this article"
Considering how vile the normal Yahoo comments are, and still stay up, these ones must have gotten really awful to warrant the crackdown.
Ya Fucking up bruh…Everybody at work looking at me like they look at the black guy whose not acting a fool on the train waiting for him to do something about the black guy whose acting a fool.
A struggling young pregnant Indiana mother of three was fired from her job because of pregnancy complications…
The GOP tried to tell you that no good would come out of letting women into our labor force! Except when we need all the men to fight for our freedumbs, of course.
Bare foot and pregnant, I tells ya! And in the kitchen.
I have a personally signed, numbered copy of the "Correspondence of Ronald Reagan". It is written on the head of a pin, which is blank. Moments in Time should be able to get a lot of monies for me.
Smart move on her part, most political memorabilia has a value curve that looks like an inverted bell curve. High when new and full of promise drops when accumulated bad will sets in and than rises when nostalgia takes over. The problem is nostalgia can take a long time to develop. I personally have been waiting for it to bring up the value on my Spiro Agnew collectable dinnerware.
Surprisingly, my great grand-dad's confederate money isn't doing so hot either.
One broken condom previously owned by Levi Johnston. Don't covet Storage Wars guys.
"Dear Destiny,
I understand your concern and realize more than anyone that these are exceptionally trying times. But rest assured that I am absolutely dedicated to slashing spending, keeping inflation unusually low, and keeping the value of the dollar unusually high. Hmm, what's that you say? You don't have a portfolio heavily comprised of treasuries and financial securities? You don't derive the majority of your income from investment returns and interest on savings? Why am I even talking to you, by letter?
Love,
Barry Soetoro"
I wuz lookin' for autographed pix of Weiner's hoo-ha, but apparently Breitbart bought them all up.
Go figure….
I'm beginning to think that Breitbart is hot for Weiner.
Riley must be relieved that Breirbart has a new fixation.
“I know times are tough,” Obama wrote to this lady, “but knowing there are folks out there like you and your husband gives me confidence that things will keep getting better!
I would bet that the number of times that Obama referred to people he was addressing as "folks" before he started campaigning for President is between zero and one.
If Obama just devotes all his time to writing letters, the economic crisis will be over by year's end.
Plus, a bad hand cramp, thus preventing him from signing any tax increases for rich people…
Letter schmetter. How much for a vintage handwritten 'grocery' list from a trashcan near Binny's Express Liquors on E 53rd?
What's it say?
Hey now, that belongs to Breadfruit. Give it back.
Today, we are all surplus population.
We'll always have Somalia.
If Barrio would send out pictures of his schlong to people they could sell them for even more. Especially if he sent them out in sections that people could collect and put together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Trish Piedmont can broker this sale for cheaper.
& she'll throw in never open action figures.
If she needs money, then why doesn't she see God in her leg veins or sell pierced "Goth" kittens on ebay, like normal Americans?
Hey, the authorities have ruled that piercing kittens is cruel. We are going to have to sell tattooed kittens.
I was going to say something witty about waiting for him to release pictures of Christine O'Donnell's bush, but my thoughts got lost and entangled there.
It just came to me in dream-like state. We can fix the economic woes of our country if the president set up a government ponzi scheme that everyone can participate in and take their turn waiting for the checks to start rolling in.
It works for the rich. It should work for pregnant out-of-work mothers.
We already have that; it's called social security.
Ron who?
How much you think my autograph book of Donald Duck and Pluto the dog will sell for?
"Destiny Mathis, a young woman in Indiana, reached out to President Obama for a sign of hope…"
"… oh, and some change… if'n ya got any…"
We don't need no education*, we do need some Fox News shows…
* No department of ~, and certainly not Brown vs Board of ~.
"A struggling young pregnant Indiana mother of three was fired from her job because of pregnancy complications…"
Just another example of how our society no longer needs unions.
Coworkers are really good for stoking resentments for anyone who has to spend too much time away from the mine shaft for any reason but reproductive issues seem to get special hostility. Because sex is of the devil and genitals are "eww gross" I guess.
Also, several years ago, when Mrs. Tribbz the adjunct prof was found to be preggers they very pointedly didn't renew her contract.
It's time for American workers to check their privates at the door and get the jawb done! Apparently.
All I have is a first edition hardback of I Am Third autographed by the great Gale Sayers….probably not worth anything though.
That thing is a priceless reminder of a different age. To even think of selling it is to dishonor the memory of 9/11! Why do you hate America?
But preferably the white women – otherwise this country will get too brown.
There's nothing quite as thrilling as selling one's personal property in the name of getting by for another week. In my case I've had to disperse a 25 year collection of music and books over the last year. Hooray for Masta Corporate's new death by a thousand cuts Hellfire Club economy, same as the old economy but with nicer teeth to eat you with.
America just needs a little powerful gasoline, a clean windshield and a shoe shine….
Herman Cain…
"No anchovies!? Sorry, I spell my name Danger!"
True story – We had a new guy at work a long time ago and during a staff meeting, I (being a big fan of meetings) muttered, "Ok, what's the bird's eye lowdown on this caper?". To which he replied, "Yeah, what's all the broohaha?" Of course, I replied, "Haha" and it went on from there while our coworkers looked on in puzzlement. We didn't even know each others name at that point.
That was back when work was kinda fun.
"I didn't hear him enter, but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume: "Pyramid Pachuli." There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent, and I had to find out WHO HE WAS… "
Nope. I think that Michelle keeps swapping out his BlackBerry to avoid exactly that.
You know, ::swapping out his BlackBerry:: sounds kinda dirty, hehe.
I plan on winning dinner with Obamar, then crapping the resultant turd into a paper sack, sculpting it into a bust of Obamar, and selling that on eBay.
where the grass is green, and we can pee in the stream – that's the one, right?
"and that's important!"
The Whisperin' Squash[singing]:
Back from the Shadows again !
Out where an In-jun's your friend!
Where the veg'tables are green,
And you can pee into the stream!
Yes, we're back from the Shadows again!
Reprise (Whisperin' with others):
We're goin' back to the Shadows again !
Out where an Indian's your friend!
Where the vegetables are green,
And you can pee right into the stream!
(And that's important!)
We're back from the Shadows again
Books should come with Nutrition Labels, just in case.
Better than selling pieces of toast that supposedly reflected the face of the Virgin Mary. http://www.blacktable.com/gillin041202.htm
So, is it time to burn the motherfucker down? Or do we change channels and eat cheese fries? You decide!
Will the private armies be loyal?
They'll be totally loyal, until someone offers them more money.
funny how that one knocked up woman gets fired from a JOB and that other knocked up woman buys a house in cash from dancing in public.
Hope, Change, Destiny? You can't make this shit up. Looks like she'll be hoping for change at the doors of the local WalMart until they kick her off private property for soliciting.
what the hell do people expect by writing the prez, is this the middle ages and will the king cure our scrofula by touching our necks?
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