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‘Exhausted’ Woman Who Pleaded With Obama for Hope…Loses Her Job

WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was “exhausted” from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She’s lost her job.

Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, said Monday in an interview with CNBC that she was laid off as part of the nonprofit’s effort to cut expenses.

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“I want to focus on the positive and be optimistic,” said Hart, who lives in Upper Marlboro, Md. “And assume that somehow things will work out, that there‘s an opportunity out there with Velma’s name on it that’s right around the corner.”

Am Vets executive director Jim King told The Washington Post that the nonprofit was looking for ways to survive financially.

“It’s not anything she did,” King told the Post for a story that appeared online Monday. “She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line.”

In September, during a town hall-style meeting on the economy televised by CNBC, Hart told Obama: “Quite frankly, I’m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the man for change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.”

Hart said that the recession had taken an enormous toll on her family and left her and her husband worried about their finances. “And quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer honestly,” she said, “Is this my new reality?”

Obama responded, in part: “As I said before, times are tough for everybody right now. So I understand your frustration.” He went on to cite examples of administration policies that he argued were helping families cope financially.

Hart told CNBC that she still supports Obama and noted that the economy is improving, though she finds the prospect of unemployment “scary.”

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  • nomorpc4me
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:54am

    All the Obama supporters have to keep supporting him. Remember how we were all labelled “racists” if we disagreed or did not support him. I guess with Obama’s approval ratings below 50%, most of the country (including previous supporters) are now racist.

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  • Chilloften
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:51am

    OMG! Stupid ass people voted this crap in and still worship. Well good then lady, if you voted Obamothen you deserve to be unemployed. Oh, but your kids can go to college, for what JOBS? Oh- they best not be smokers, or overweight or they are never getting the one job available to them.

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  • neverending
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:51am

    So wish it would be him – no such luck!

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  • Enuff Zenuff
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:46am

    “How’s that hopey changey thing working out?”

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  • republitarian
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:42am

    She publicly dressed down the president and now she’s out of a job. Maybe nothing to it, but this deserves more scrutiny.

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  • blazeramjam
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:34am

    For those of you who recall and wondered why Obama would speak out against not for profits at the beginning of his presidency, now you have the answer. How can the FED GOV grow when you have not for profits like this one assisting in providing services through donations? It cannot. Therefore, Obama wanted to limit the role of NFPs in our society so he can grow government and the nanny state! Wake up people, this train is going to a socialist state if we do not continue to vote with our hearts, as we did in November. 2012 is the next showdown, and redistictricting means we can do 2x as much as this months vote. Get local, get involved!

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  • MrsK
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:28am

    Per the recording on the EDD phone hell, “unfortunately, there is no bill before congress to extend your unemployment benefits”

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    • Waggedy Wabbit
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:23am

      5 million unemployed losing ther unemployment be it 26 or99weeks while NO end to the generation after generation of welfare as a way of life is ever&never touched. Since EVERYONE who is unemployed are just LAZY and all could be working since there are PLENTY of jobs out there,at least that is what MANY of you say and if that is so we can not be in a recession as good jobs are everywhere. Funny out here in the REAL world it is NOT that way so lets continue to play THE GAME and EAT OUR OWN while those in WASHINGTON continue with THE AGENDA You place so much hope in the NEW hires but fail to listen to so many of them talk since the election .I will give up ALL of my tommorows to help save this country WILL YOU???

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  • FedUP
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:23am

    Her boss said she did nothing wrong, was just bitten by the same snake as a lot of other folks? Please- how about voting for Obama! A man with NO experience. A man with serious ties to some very questionable people. A man with a wife who had never in her adult life been proud of her country. A man who said he wanted to fundamentally change the United States. These are all facts that were documented prior to election day. The only reason this woman voted for Obama was because of his skin color. Today, she is not even sorry? She still supports him? Being an CFO you would think that she would be able to relate her “now jobless” state with this current administration’s anti capitalistic policies. Hmmm- here’s a clue lady. You think your employer might be able to keep ya on board if he wasn’t so afraid of the new taxes coming down the pike, or unable to pay for every staff‘ member’s health care under Obamacare? Just sayin- But- you still support him.

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  • Leetron
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:22am

    Pathetic. Simply pathetic…

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:19am

    how do you like that hope and change now ,, welcome to welfare and food stamps

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  • THE AUDACITY OF NO
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:16am

    I guess she’s got 99 weeks of unemployment to look forward to, courtesy of our fearless leader. Week 100 will come just in time to see Sarah Palin flip the pancake back to the golden side.

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  • Ammon
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:15am

    Still supports him? Whats that definition of insanity again………?

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  • joan k
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:15am

    Welcome to the new reality…. it is not going to get better until this man is out of office and we can get some good conservatives with real principles in office

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  • czopko
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:13am

    were do we start?“my ways are not your ways”thats good enough for me when it comes to divine instructions to “bear false witness” to lie we are instructed not to it turns out your body is actually physiologicaly affected when you do boy i wouldnt want to be in the vicinity of the restroom that al gore decided to read the morning paper in.to even think thes thoughts is another reason to get ANGREY! how the unbelievable greed of some of things camafloged in human skin affects us BECK my you are accurate in that WORDS are our most powerful weapons right behind prayer.keep lines of communication fertile the script is written THEY LOOSE its as simple as that but do not sit complacent and let your VOICE be silent.the sleeping giant has awoken.al gore has the soul of a spider

     
  • red penny
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:10am

    Why did this woman vote for “THE PHONEY IN CHIEF”to begin with? Because she’s black and OBOZZO is half black.Seems she’s not very smart to begin with! Yeah,yeah I know all about the racist BS. Many of those who voted for the current occupant of the half white house did so for a lot of the wrong reasons–anyway we’re stuck with the idiot for awhile longer. Hope she finds gainful employment soon.

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  • needanotherReagan
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:08am

    She’ll probably be made a czar.

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  • Mannax
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:01am

    Looks like someone took what various talk show hosts have been saying. Look for the Obama supporters and let them go, since they voted for this.

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  • BlacksAgainstObama
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:59pm

    So sad. Sister will come around soon.

    http://www.watchglennbeck.com

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  • kazzbooA1
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:58pm

    Big bad Washington politics

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  • kazzbooA1
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:57pm

    Coincidental-I don’t think so-Remember JFK cover up-You think big bad Washington did not have anything to do with this women getting let go by getten on the man- BULL

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    • Mominfla51
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:51am

      @kazzbooa1
      You are right!!! You don’t think Washington had anything to do with this??!! Think again! (different subject) Look who’s talking now…Rockefeller…watch out for Rothchild!!! Wanting to take FOX off the air. What about Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio in 2012?!

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:39pm

      Mominfla51
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 5:51am

      Love that ticket! I think we have a few excellent possibilities to choose from (Christie, DeMint, et al) and as time goes on the right one will emerge.

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:54pm

      Agreed.

      Ruthless bastard, not a decent spec of anything in him. Like most CEOs today.

      But she was in a perfect position to speak more truths about this idiot in chief and unfortuately, she caved.

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  • liberty1111
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:55pm

    AHHH, the harsh reality of Socialism and Obamanomics.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:21am

      Just maybe she lost her job for asking the president a tough question. Look how they went after Joe the plumber

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    • felina g
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:15am

      She can always get a job at our multiple light bulb factories ! No wait……………..

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:54pm

    I’m exhausted too. I’m tired of telling Liberals emerging from their fantasy trance that we told you so.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:10am

      But gee whiz – the democoms love poor people and they won’t rest until we are all poor people!!!

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  • neverending
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:53pm

    You can’t make this stuff up!!! She still supports obama – just totally beyond belief and I just read that 43% still want the bastard in chief reelected. Better stop thinking he can be easily defeated. Anybody that thinks that is living in fantasyland. Still millions more that need to be awakened. Come on Christie/Rubio – we desperately need those guys.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:01am

      Now Obama will pay her mortgage and put gas in her car..goody

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:42am

      Neverending said: “She still supports obama…”

      Not really. Hart became every conservative media outlet’s dream come true: compelling proof of Obama’s failure to come through even for his staunchest supporters. Now she’s making a feeble attempt at damage control, but it’s too little too late. Hart will be a pariah in her own community. She might as well become a Republican…

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:44am

      @WHIZ
      Not likely. What will more likely happen is that she will have to sell her house (or lose it), get a lower paying job (or two), start taking public transportation, go on food stamps and/or Medicaid, and do exactly what Crime Inc. wants her to do: step down and out of the middle class where she can be “progressed” into the better life of being trapped in poverty. This is apparently what she wanted if she voted for The Vengislator.

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    • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 4:49am

      Very true! Rubio I would think would have a better chance, even though I love Christie. The Republican Party better get it together. They’ve got to fight fire with fire! Rubio is young, smart , Hispanic! and would be serving the same amount of time in the Senate as stupid a$$ did when he started campaigning! The misguided youth won‘t vote for someone that doesn’t “look” good! Sad to say. My college daughter loved Obama and PALIN! She thought they should have run together! God help us all!

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:39am

      Must remember that this is the percentage that is living off the rest of us. They do not work or pay taxes of course they want him reelected. One must protect your gravy train. How come Fodd stapms were increased an SSA was not? Food is only inflationary for food stamp receipents.

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    • starman70
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:07am

      @ CHEESWHIZ

      Not only that, she will probably land a high paying job with the Democratic National Comittee, whether she is qualified or not.

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    • sportlock
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:23pm

      Rubio is a bushicrat hell bent on the same ole same ole. I’m with ya on Christie, But would love to see this dream ticket….CHRISTIE/PAUL 2012

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:53pm

    What? He is not the savior?

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:50pm

    Beans and hot dogs for everybody….yeah….woooohoooo
    :D

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:24am

      Welcome to the world of Obama … food stamps for everyone … no job for you!

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    • No1YaKnow
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:26am

      And why would she still support him?? This double talk is what is exhausting. It’s like an abused person saying they have had enough but they still love their abuser. Pfffft

      Marci  
    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:39am

      people still support him because it’s like rooting for a footbal team. even when they are down you still love them. that’s how are politics have become. my team vs. your team with an election night party.
      2012 is going to be a hard win for the republicans because of people like this. It will also be the dirtiest election , I think, EVER! They know they cannot win on his record right now and the way they can win is to dig dirt on the opposer. Newt won’t be able to win, palin won’t be able to win. It’s going to take a clean/non hated person that has a record of speaking nothing but the truth about their record and why they voted. I’m really really hoping Christie or Rubio(although he doesn’t really have the experience) gets into the race.

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:40am

      this guy can sell ice to an eskimo

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:42am

      remember the song “everybody plays the fool” this lady’s no exception to the rule….who sing that song anyway i forget

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:43am

      “times are tough for everybody” … really Mr. Prez … I doubt you are eating beans and franks .. no it’s kobe beef and lobster if I recall correctly. Times are only “tough” for those outside the “ruling class”. This woman needs to wake up .. perhaps when she can no longer afford the beans and franks?

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:45am

      Aaron Neville just googled it

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:49am

      “Hart told CNBC that she still supports Obama”
      ____________

      I can’t feel sorry for that kind of ignorance.

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 1:04am

      Jimmy C is glad he’s no longer thought of as the most incompetent President ever. The new reality sucks.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CsEgIfUX0
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN9f9clmig

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    • Buck Ofama
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 1:48am

      @BostonChris

      The Main Ingredient originally did it back in 1972.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 2:42am

      Can we please consider that it’s not at all possible for the unemployment rate to become zero? Please? Somebody’s going to be producing some kind of wealth, ok.

      Obama didn’t save anything. He came in when Bush’s housing bubble burst, which bubble could only lose America so many jobs. Then Obama came in and enacted policies which made our situation worse.

      In fact, Obama enacted the same type of failed policies as Bush. See here:

      Continuing on the Road to Ruin
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiInauovWDc

      To the lady, I would say that I hope she gets together with some Tea Party folks and works together to take our country back; But also, I would tell her that if the non-profit was government subsidized, she should know that government, and government subsidized jobs, aren’t supposed to be secure, and that if more government jobs were cut or lost, then the private sector would be more free to grow the pie of the American economy.

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    • copper
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:30am

      No wonder she was let go, if she still believes in Obama she must believe in the toothfairy. Perhaps her boss decided they needed someone who could asess reality more astutely. How could someone who seems intelligent be so blind and dumb???

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    • Ricochet
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 4:17am

      But now she has 99 weeks of unemployment…or did they up that too?

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    • Bluegill
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:29am

      Yeah the 99 weeks of unemployment will be plenty of time to get her mind right. As a fellow finance major I feel for her but come on man, this guy laughed in your face at precisely the wrong time. Her instincts are telling her something is wrong but her devotion to the black man is stronger than her common sense.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:54am

      @Bluegill

      I have seen too many people hold onto a cherished dream or desire long after reality should have gotten it across to them that the dream is over.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 6:57am

      You get what you voted for ………

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    • 2
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:22am

      HE TOLD YOU FOOLS! YOU JUST DIDN’T LISTEN. I DID YOU FOOLS.

      “Y’all can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as You want and keep Your house on 68 and 72 degrees at all times…. (P.S. Mines at 65 and 75) … and then just expect that other in the world to go um OK, now can ya.” Obama said.

      I do and I will keep doing it. You can’t stop Me you Marxist Pig.
      Steak for everyone. Turn up the heat and start the SUV, I might want to go out.

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    • stinkybisquit
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:26am

      and arepas!
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chavez-responds-invites-obama-to-eat-socialist-arepas-with-him/

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:37am

      @No1YaKnow.. You know you could be on to something..I think money well spent would be for the left to get some deprogramming.. I think maybe the abuse comes from the schools teaching socialist propaganda..

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    • mimitweetin
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:38am

      I feel so sorry for this woman. She was preyed upon as many millions of other Americans. These people have no idea what’s to come because they have been lied to, cheated, and made to beleive the Government can take care of everything. How many centuries of PROOF do these people need to see that all government does is screw things up and make people miserable. I wonder what they are all going to say when they are issued numbers.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:47am

      My mothers favorite saying when I was growing up fits well here, “If you can’t hear, you will feel”. enough said.

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    • JKN
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:03am

      How’s that “Hope and Change” thing working for you now?

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:05am

      How‘s that hopey changet thing workin’ for ya? She’s another fool.

      I hope all Obama supporters lose everything they have so they will wake up and see the evil of Marxism.

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    • Marc Jacobs
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:27am

      This is what happens when you vote for skin color and not for the man under the skin

      Marc Jacobs  
    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:33am

      COOPER: Birs of a feather ring a bell?

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    • brewer55
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:34am

      @No1YaKnow I agree. So many of these folks seem to still be cutting him slack. Like somehow, he is going to change and do what they want him to do.

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    • theaveng
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:39am

      When people become employed with the U.S. Congress, they should be required to quit the party.

      Their affiliation should be to the People back home and the unity of the Republic, not to parties. Of course this change would require a constitutional amendment – “Members of the US Government shall not have affiliation with any political party.” (or similar)

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    • James
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 9:41am

      And liberals make fun of Christians for their faith?

      http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:00am

      Remember just a few days after Obama won the election people were lined up to get some free “Obama money”. Well, they’re STILL waiting ! There’s NOTHING free in life. Somebody has to pay for EVERYTHING. Anything that comes from the US government is paid for by the American taxpayers. The US governemnt doesn’t manufacture or produce anything from which it can make a profit. All government money comes from taxes. Some people can’t seem to understnd this important
      truth.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:13pm

      I wonder if she will feel that way if she finds out/realizes that they found a way to hit her back for making Obama look bad?

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 2:29pm

      yea, right. I’ll just bet it was coincidental.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 2:45pm

      I’m hoping all of those with Obama bumper stickers lose their jobs, maybe then they’ll get their head out of their behind and see what this moron is doing to this country!!!!!!!

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    • Reagan/Demint.deciple
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:07pm

      A million dollars, she votes for him again…

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    • Sara123
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:16pm

      Poor exhausted dear needed a rest.

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:01pm

      Aww … lose yer job? HA HA HA!!!!

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:28pm

      Ah well………………….
      Up until I read the last paragraph I thought, “Finally we have an average African American telling it like it is.” But THEN that last paragraph ruined it all.

      Lady you are wearing blinders. You are oblahmas victim and you are too stupid to admit it.

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