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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/03foodstamps.html

The comments are, as always, pretty sucky. "Why does that guy deserve food stamps, see his picture in the slideshow, he's covered with tattoos and who paid for it, whine whine whine!!!" Maybe he got the tattoos as birthday gifts, or before the recession, or from a friend at half price? Maybe it's none of your fucking business how his body looks? "How can that woman deserve food stamps, she used to make a lot of money, she's wasteful and terrible!!!" Well, aside from the fact that she lived off her savings for three years, while taking care of a disabled infant (and, much though I am loathe to say it, depending on the disability that might have eaten through her savings real fast, services not always being as good as they ought to be in our little backwards nation of America), who gives a fuck? Now she has a small child who needs to eat. For the love of...! "Well, if people think it's okay to take money from taxes...." What the FUCK do you think taxes are FOR? "California is at fault, they're too liberal, and look, they thought their liberal polices would end poverty but really, all they did is now they have 1/3 of welfare folks..." Assuming that commenter didn't just make that number up, no shit. California is the most populous state in the union, of course they'll have more of the welfare population than the rest of us. Proportionately speaking, though, they're far from leading the pack.

Oh, it's disgusting the way some people talk. It really is.

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So, over at Conservative Free Republic they have a forum. Lots of places have forums.

And over there, occasionally they have people making and commenting with objectionable matter. Lots of forums have that problem.

And hey, there it's racist and people are attacking the President's young daughters, which is abhorrent. Okay... it happens... but hey, their policy forbids racist content! (And anything which advocates for rebellion and secession as well.) So you'd think that they'd deal with that fast before it made them look bad... right?

Well... no, don't make me laugh. They waited a day, and then only removed it because a guy doing research made a complaint. And... then they put it back up, only removing it for good once liberal blogs got a hold of this.

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Now, everybody is commenting on the vicious comments left about the President's kids, which is as it should be. Attacking anybody's young children (and 11 is still young) with slurs and misogyny (as well as racism and some basic classism, they've hit the trifecta there) is wrong, that goes without saying.

But what gets me is the comment about Obama's Mother-in-Law, that she's "free-loadin'". I've heard that before, but without the overt racist subtext, and it makes no sense to me, firstly because she is, as I'm told, there to help keep things normal for her grandkids, and second because she's seventy-one! Seventy-one! What sort of family values allow you to insult people for taking care of their parents? If she were sitting around doing nothing, isn't she entitled? Surely, after 71 years, she gets to rest and be with her family? (Well, I suppose those are the same family values that tell you it's okay to insult defenseless 11 year old girls who haven't even done anything.)

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