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Michelle Obama rents Hollywood Hills home, possibly scoping out L.A. move, report says
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Anonymous
And he made his money by inheriting and tax evasion. |
Anonymous
I thought the rumor was about being on the DL. |
Anonymous
Serious question again -- do they even attend church? Obama's books talked a lot about his sense of connection with God and the AA community through attending services. Wad he just misleading AAs, Latinos and moderates? |
Anonymous
| I don’t understand why posters think the Obamas should live like monks. We live in a capitalist country. What’s the problem? |
Anonymous
They go more often than Trump. Does that bother you? |
Anonymous
There are great therapists and excellent medications out there. |
Anonymous
They are too busy helping folks with TDS. |
Anonymous
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The hypocrisy from the right is palpable.
You elected Trump because you think he is wealthy and a good businessman, even though his wealth was given to him. You act like the Obamas are criminals because they are self-made millionaires, and they were even before his presidency due to book deals and smart investing. You guys are slamming the Obamas for not going to church (even though you have no way of knowing) while Trump is spending his Sunday morning hate tweeting, and you clearly aren’t at church either! You think it is wrong for the Obamas to move to LA as private citizens, but you have no problem with Trump’s “Southern White House”. |
Anonymous
Trump doesn’t hide what he is. The Obamas speak the language of the left but don’t live it |
Anonymous
The Obamas stayed in DC so that Sasha could finish school. I believe she just graduated. It makes sense that they are ready to leave now. 4 million people live in LA, but it’s only a crime to live there if you’re an Obama. 
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Anonymous
| Michelle is gonna take difi’s senate seat. |
Anonymous
You have got to be kidding me. How are the Obamas not living the language of the left? Newsflash: nobody on the left is against wealthy people, as long as they don’t lie, cheat and steal to get there. The Obamas are extremely charitable. You just don’t know this because fox news doesn’t report that. You seriously justified Trump’s behavior by saying he doesn’t hide who he is? |
Anonymous
+1 Don’t care what the Obamas do EXCEPT they tell us to live one way and they live the opposite. Hypocrisy. And then if you say hey! That’s weird! You are a racist. |
Anonymous
Obama Called Inequality 'The Defining Challenge Of Our Time.' He Didn't Do Much About It. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5866836ce4b0de3a08f808dd/amp The top 1 percent of all households captured 52 percent of the economic gains in the Obama years, according to research released in June by Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. The bottom 99 percent have only recovered about two-thirds of the income losses they suffered in the Great Recession. Income inequality is down slightly from its all-time high in 2012, but only enough to return the United States to where it was at the start of the Great Recession. Median household income rose meaningfully in 2015, but remains below its 2007 level. These numbers may improve modestly as additional data from the final years of Obama’s presidency rolls in, but not enough to change the overall verdict. Obama has failed to meet “the defining challenge of our time.” But so did Obama. Barely a year into his presidency, Obama began publicly championing austerity: “Small businesses and families are tightening their belts,” he said. “Their government should, too.” He created a bipartisan commission to slash the budget deficit, and advocated cutting Social Security benefits that disproportionately help the poor. When the Bush tax cuts were set to expire at the start of 2013, Obama infuriated then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) when he intervened to maintain the lower tax rates for people making $250,000 to $450,000 a year. For Obama, the political value of cutting a deal with then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was more important than raising taxes on many very wealthy people. And none of these failures compare to the disaster Obama enforced in housing policy. The 2008 bank bailouts gave the president broad authority to spend money to avert foreclosures. Coming into office, Obama promised to help up to 4 million homeowners by devoting between $50 billion and $100 billion from the bank bailout fund to “a sweeping effort to address the foreclosure crisis.” To date, the administration has spent about $21 billion on the crisis. Republicans could not and did not block additional funding ? Obama just didn’t spend it. Tragically, as the journalist David Dayen documented in his book Chain of Title, the administration turned management of its foreclosure relief plan over to big banks, which resulted in massive fraud on consumers that the banks would later pay $25 billion to settle. (Dayen argues persuasively that even this settlement delivered little to nothing for wronged homeowners.) Obama was a disaster and now he gets to be in the 1%. |
Anonymous
Why do the clintons and Obamas engage in grift whereas carter doesn’t? |