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kpete

(72,022 posts)
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:01 PM Nov 2012

Barack and Michelle Obama are the EPITOME of the American Dream.

Barack and Michelle Obama are the EPITOME of the American Dream.

They are what EVERYONE who wasn’t born RICH in this country, and can’t dribble some sort of athletic ball is told to do:

Go to school

Excel.

Work your ass off.

Nobody is saying that you’ll become President.

But, if you aren’t born rich, this is the way to middle-class success at the very least.

The GOP continually disrespected this self-made man and his wife….but, the only people who noticed were Black folks, and we were told we were being ’ too sensitive’, and it was in ’ our imaginations’.

The highest educated populace in this country is the Asian-American community. They value those pieces of paper like nobody’s business.

You don’t think they noticed…

That being President of the Harvard Law Review – is a spectacular achievement…

Until Barack Obama won the Presidency of the Harvard Law Review.

Graduating Magna Cum Laude used to be a spectacular achievement…

Until Barack Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School…..which of course, means he got his degree in crayon at the ’ Black Entrance’.



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Barack and Michelle Obama are the EPITOME of the American Dream. (Original Post) kpete Nov 2012 OP
K&R muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #1

muriel_volestrangler

(101,367 posts)
1. K&R
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 05:56 PM
Nov 2012

It's a good reason for why the Asian-American presidential vote for the Democrat climbed faster than any other ethnic category between 2008 and 2012:

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