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Are your old family members flipping out over Obama right now?

My grandpa's wife is flipping out over Obama and calls him all types of names and post it on facebook. I am pretty sure she hates black people to from some of her posts.

My dad told me to delete her and not speak to her like she is the lowest of the low. I kinda feel like I should be nice and not delete her from my friends, but the posts are so ignorant and extreme.

Are the old people in your family freaking out over Obama too? Are they saying all types of craziness just to make him look bad?

Update:

Honestly I dont see why people need to live forever, 70 is a good age to live untill. Also there are so many procedures that are just keeping people alive but not productive and completely dependent those fancy procedure can stop for over 70. If i needed one now i couldnt afford it because i am not on medicare

Update 2:

Nope they are mad at Obama, I honestly doubt their lives how been effected at all.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Your question stuns me! Are you sure you don't mean Romney?

    I mean I'm no political expert but from what I hear "absolutely nothing which Obama has done or plans to do, will affect senior citizens. See for yourself:

    OBAMA

    1) Institute Obama Care, in which every American WILL be insured (whether they are fully employed or not).

    2) Will raise taxes to the extremely wealthy, in other words the 1% of population.

    3) Will cut billions from defense (Pentagon) because he WILL NOT favor invasion or preemptive attacks of any sorts, unless of course the U.S. were to be attacked first.

    ROMNEY

    1) Will bring Obama Care to a stop the first minute he steps in White House (by his own words, repeatedly).

    2) Will LOWER Medicare BENEFITS to seniors whose income is not considered low (don't know what he considers high, though, so wouldn't be able to tell you exactly).

    3) Will add (I think) $15 billion to the defense (Pentagon). BTW, this is something that is not known by many, but do you know that some screws have cost up to $35 and toilet seats up to $300.00 at the Pentagon?

    4) Will invade Iran--in spite of and because of Turkey invading Syria first!--and then some of the $15 billion dollars for defense can be put to good use. That in itself WILL create some jobs. But unless much mistaken those jobs will be in India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, or maybe Vietnam and Cambodia which have also become competitive where "skilled" workers is concerned, so it's not like the U.S. has to depend on China, Pakistan or Brazil in order to have more goods manufactured.

    5) Will CUT some--and LOWER--all BENEFITS, which include TANF, WIC checks for pregnant women and FOOD STAMPS.

    6) Will (and this is the one which should be making your grandma cringe) make each individual state in the U.S. to take over MEDICARE.

    That in itself would probably be the end of MEDICARE, so this is why I think you have misunderstood, and your grandma is probably fuming about Romney!

  • pauljr
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    5 years ago

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  • 9 years ago

    Unfortunately you are assuming that it is racial. For millions of seniors it is financial. They are hurting. Many lost part time jobs they were using to get by. My parents are on medicare. Their doctor told them that they are no longer accepting it anymore. Others have told them they will no longer be in business once Obamacare is fully implemented. In the healthcare bill it clearly states that people over 70 will not receive certain treatments due to age. If you were older wouldn't that scare you for good reason?

  • 9 years ago

    Obummer himself makes him look bad. The lies he has told, things he has spent millions of dollars on to hide (birth certificate, college records, etc). Obummercare is absolutely the WORST thing that could have happened to the American people. Wait till you are 70 to say it is a good age to live till. If your grandfather's wife posts racial slurs, you should block her or just ignore her posts on FB. Many people who point out obummers flaws are called racist simply because there is no defense for a lot of his actions, and the race card is a convenient one to pull out.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Your dad wants you to delete her because he doesn't think that her racism and attitude towards people is a good influence on you.

    I would listen to your dad if I were you and anyone who says any different is irresponsible no matter what their political side is.

    And no, the old people in my family are not freaking out over Obama because the old people in my family have more important things to worry about. But it sounds like your grandma is a bit crazy and I would just cut ties with her, I have a crazy grandma that says hurtful things all of the time and I refuse to speak to her.

  • 9 years ago

    Yea, my grandpa is from Georgia and admitted to me that he hates Obama for being black. Is it just a coincidence that pretty much every southern state voted republican in the last election?

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