"#1 Obama Generation"

[Clio the Leo]

As reporters peered out of the tinted windows of their charter bus at the small throng of pro-Obama supporters outside St. Charles High School yesterday, one woman – standing next to stroller and brandishing an strange placard – stood out from the crowd.

Her name was Sara Miller and she was holding a sign that read: “#1 Obama Generation -- Bi-Racial Baby Born 10:56 p.m., Nov. 4, 2008 -- Mikal Woods.”

As Miller’s one-and-half year-old son slept contentedly under an Obama baseball cap in the stroller, she explained the sign.

“He was born during Obama’s acceptance speech and I wanted him to see the president,” said Miller, a 26-year-old waitress from nearby O’Fallon, Missouri. “I was a big Obama supporter... It’s pretty lonely around here being an Obama person, it’s a pretty Republican town.”

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“Mikal has Medicaid,” she said. “But I work at Chevy’s, it’s a good job, but I make a little too much too qualify and too little to buy my own.”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0310/missouri_loves_company_cede8af7-98d8-44dd-8f45-7ee407128cf1.html

[izzybeans]

1. "...I make a little too much too qualify and too little to buy my own.”

that quote cuts to the heart of every problem our government has with delivering on the needs of the people (on health care, childcare, eldercare, etc.). We have a government for the needy and the greedy, while we in the middle get screwed.

Who can afford insurance premiums? Who can afford child care costs? Who can afford long term care? Not I says this middle class guy. Not I.