The so-called American Dream has been slipping away for 30 years since Reagan's conservative movement against workers began. Pres Obama helped restore some of it after the housing market crashed by many measures to help people stay afloat financially.
He is the American Dream himself, coming from a welfare mother, getting into college and excelling on his own merits and achieving status in politics.
Pres Obama is not responsible for the low wages in America which stifle progress for younger Americans. He is not a financial planner and cannot alone keep the Dream alive. Congress can do that but they are blind to what goes on.
Barack Obama IS the American dream. A black kid raised by a single mom who gets educated on loans and scholarships and enters public service just when the far right revs up their opposition to any public policies that might help the 95% of Americans who work for hourly wages. In spite of their insane war against this man when the dust settles he's the last man standing.
In spite of the GOP/Tea/Fox/Jesus freak party's tens of thousands of hours of opposition by 'Weasel News' , dozens of right wing radio dummies, hundreds of books and articles from dozens of right wing 'think tanks', forums and well finance 'conservative' organizations this guy gets elected by overwhelming majorities TWICE. If that ain't the American Dream there ain't no such a thing!
It more like his interpretations of his memoirs "Dreams of My Father"... its all about racism and his election was exactly that. He see's America as a racist county. Obama is partly right but he blames the wrong people for it. The racism is still alive and Obama was right in the middle of it attending a racist church for 20 years. His opinion is at best jaded by Chicago style politics where he had to eliminate those people who ran against him as he did to Romney in spreading all sorts of lies about taxes and dog on a roof of a car...
He lived the American dream. Of course he supports all children having the ability to rise out of poverty and have even higher aspirations for their own children. The American dream has been dying for decades, sadly, due to the Laffer curve and income inequality.
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it." -George Carlin
Whether he does or doesn't really doesn't matter to me.
It's no longer the romanticized ideal of "come to America, start a business, go through tough times, eventually get out of various minor crises, get the ball rolling, make money to live well-off, marry, have kids, retire comfortably" anymore. It simply isn't. It died a long time ago, probably 30 years ago.
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Only if it includes a Muzzie Marxist takeover and he become the Caliph
The so-called American Dream has been slipping away for 30 years since Reagan's conservative movement against workers began. Pres Obama helped restore some of it after the housing market crashed by many measures to help people stay afloat financially.
He is the American Dream himself, coming from a welfare mother, getting into college and excelling on his own merits and achieving status in politics.
Pres Obama is not responsible for the low wages in America which stifle progress for younger Americans. He is not a financial planner and cannot alone keep the Dream alive. Congress can do that but they are blind to what goes on.
Barack Obama IS the American dream. A black kid raised by a single mom who gets educated on loans and scholarships and enters public service just when the far right revs up their opposition to any public policies that might help the 95% of Americans who work for hourly wages. In spite of their insane war against this man when the dust settles he's the last man standing.
In spite of the GOP/Tea/Fox/Jesus freak party's tens of thousands of hours of opposition by 'Weasel News' , dozens of right wing radio dummies, hundreds of books and articles from dozens of right wing 'think tanks', forums and well finance 'conservative' organizations this guy gets elected by overwhelming majorities TWICE. If that ain't the American Dream there ain't no such a thing!
Obama is a former member of "The New Party", a political party that took it's platform DIRECTLY from the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).
He CHOSE to join a Socialist organization.
I think he knows if he is a socialist or not.
No, I don't think he has a clue what the American Dream is.
It more like his interpretations of his memoirs "Dreams of My Father"... its all about racism and his election was exactly that. He see's America as a racist county. Obama is partly right but he blames the wrong people for it. The racism is still alive and Obama was right in the middle of it attending a racist church for 20 years. His opinion is at best jaded by Chicago style politics where he had to eliminate those people who ran against him as he did to Romney in spreading all sorts of lies about taxes and dog on a roof of a car...
He lived the American dream. Of course he supports all children having the ability to rise out of poverty and have even higher aspirations for their own children. The American dream has been dying for decades, sadly, due to the Laffer curve and income inequality.
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it." -George Carlin
Whether he does or doesn't really doesn't matter to me.
It's no longer the romanticized ideal of "come to America, start a business, go through tough times, eventually get out of various minor crises, get the ball rolling, make money to live well-off, marry, have kids, retire comfortably" anymore. It simply isn't. It died a long time ago, probably 30 years ago.
yes, but his american dream is something very different than what most people would consider the american dream
His American dream is to see white people suffer for their crimes against the blacks and Indians.
He wants white people to suffer. He admittedly hated his grandmother that took care of him when his black father abandoned him.
He mocked white grandmother on the national stage during his campaign.
She died four months later.
Obama is one cold hearted, selfish son of a bich.
He has lived it. Start with next to nothing and end up rich and famous and elected to the most powerful job on the planet, twice.