Update: Henrietta Hughes gets a house
Ask at an Obama revival meeting and ye shall receive:
Henrietta Hughes was offered a home by Chene Thompson, wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, who heard the homeless woman’s pleas for help to President Obama before a local and national crowd.
AdvertisementThe house is in LaBelle, the first home [Chene] Thompson bought after law school. She told Hughes, “Just give me the opportunity to help you.”
Hughes broke down in front of thousands when she told the president that she and her son have been homeless for more than a year. They are living in a pickup truck.
Obama hugged her after she asked her question and said his staff would help. A staffer later gave her a card to the head of the housing authority and she was told he would help her.
(link)
Reader Erik E. has questions. Careful, Erik. You are committing sacrilege. Dissent is unpatriotic. And cruel.
You know you cannot just “enter” an Obama town hall meeting. They give out tickets in advance. Who gets the tickets? People who stand in line and wait. Who tells people when and where Obama will appear next?
Certainly not the Secret Service who has to protect this man. Not the MSM, who are too busy telling us how great he is without asking any critical questions. Sooooo… how does a 61 year-old homeless woman who’s living in a pickup truck with her son JUST HAPPEN to get a ticket so she can VERY PUBLICALLY ask Prez. Obama for a HOUSE? Anyone? Who pushes her up on stage? She’s right at the front of the crowd. Did she just happen to get a seat there?
Now, within moments of this happening, it’s trumpeted all over the news. AND, surprise, surprise, the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, Chene Thompson JUST HAPPENS to have a spare house worth $150,000 lying around, so she GIVES it to this unemployed, homeless, living-in-a-truck woman. They’ve been homeless for “more than a year”, which coincidentally, predates the current housing and banking crisis by quite a while. How did they learn about the “Obama Town Hall and Tent Revival”? Were homeless people simply rounded up? Did someone pre-canvas the area in search of “great, tear-jerking stories”? Of all the people in the audience, SHE’S one of the ones Obama chooses to ask a question?
BTW-the taxes which will be charged on this “free house” will bankrupt the poor woman. Taxes are levied based on the home’s assessed value, not on the basis of it being a “free gift”.
On a second, double-snort, the last guy who gets to ask a question JUST HAPPENS to be a 19-year-old kid of Hispanic descent who’s going to Edison State College (free tuition perhaps for in-state students?) and has worked at McDonalds for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. By my math, he started working there when he was 14! Florida child-labor law infraction, anyone? Now, having worked at McDs several times in my past I can say that they DO offer health care plans. You have to PAY for it, just like everyone else in the country does. It’s OPTIONAL. It’s not a God-given right.
…Do the Thompsons get to claim this as a charitable tax deduction against their (probably) considerable 2009 income? How many houses do they own?
Is there anyone left in the media who will ask these questions? Ever?
Silence! Do not question Dear Leader.
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Remember M/M Clinton were walking on the beach in Normandy and came upon the pile of white rocks and then moved them around to form a cross?
That was a 100% setup.
The Dems waaaaaay outperform the Repubs when it comes to marketing.
Easy to do when you have no shame whatsoever, plus a compliant, sycophantic media.
Obama should get his own TV show. It would be sort of a cross between Oprah, reality show, and get rich quick seminar. Maybe the title could be Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue or Who Wants To Be A Democrat Poster Victim? Contestants could be brought in to tell their sob stories, Dear Leader would offer sage advice and explain how his latest new program will help and somebody from the audience will jump up and offer a job, shelter, scholarship, medical care etc… Then everybody cries and shares group hug. I’m sure it would be a big hit in todays culture plus it would help Obama get his message of Hope and Change to the masses.
jsr: It’s been done — recall “Queen for a Day” in the early 60′s.
However, you also need to mix in a little Benny Hinn with some healing of the sick and a little casting out of evil demons thrown in for fun!
It’s all Oprah to me.
Obama has no new ideas, just recycled failures of America’s dark past.
If that happens, we’ll know that Obambi ain’t the AntiChrist. Rather, he’d be the False Prohpet (dragon) who heals the fatally wounded AntiChrist. Revelation 13:3-4
It won’t be long. Now she’s not homeless, but jobless means no money for utilities, property taxes, gift taxes (on mkt val of the house). I guess welfare my take care of some of the food needs.
He’s not spreading the wealth around. His plan is to spread the poverty around, so we can all be just like Henrietta; oh, except paying our OWN way down the ladder of success. This man is bad news. BAD news.
Look out Michelle and Erik… CNN is on to your heartless conservative nay-saying.