Henrietta Hughes gets a house - Ask at an Obama revival meeting and ye shall receive

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Henrietta Hughes gets a house
By Michelle Malkin
February 10, 2009 04:31 PM

Ask at an Obama revival meeting and ye shall receive:

Henrietta Hughes was offered a home by Chene Thompson, wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, who heard the homeless woman’s pleas for help to President Obama before a local and national crowd.

The house is in LaBelle, the first home [Chene] Thompson bought after law school. She told Hughes, “Just give me the opportunity to help you.”

Hughes broke down in front of thousands when she told the president that she and her son have been homeless for more than a year. They are living in a pickup truck.

Obama hugged her after she asked her question and said his staff would help. A staffer later gave her a card to the head of the housing authority and she was told he would help her.

OK, so give a house to all the other homeless, - special pleading, and while they're at it provide a free home for everyone


Q here....


If she has this house, when she gets back on her feet she should pay for it or leave it for some other homeless person.

Is it the policy of the Democrats to grant free social housing to whomever?

Where do I sign up????

Is all I have to do is attend an Obama crusade and get a slobber on the cheek? WHICH cheek. The upper?
The lower?

I have a feeling Obama has NO idea what he did when he did this....

What a rat bastard.

Next he will be performing miracles.

Let me make sure I understand this.

A homeless woman makes a plea for help to the president in a venue where she's seen by a wide audience. The president does what politicians do: he offers a platitude and the number of someone whose job it is to help Americans with housing.

Meanwhile, another woman sees the plight of the first. She's moved with compassion, and offers the woman a place to live rent-free as long as she needs to. She says, "We're American. That's what we're supposed to do for each other. We're supposed to help each other. So if I can help her, I will." (source) She does this independent of the government or the president, from everything I've read.

Why is everyone here trying to make this an opportunity to bash Obama? What did he do besides spout some politician-speak?

Incidentally, did you notice that the husband of the wife who offered the house is a state representative? Yep. He's a Republican.

Fred, you're a smart guy, it's sad you don't see the scam. Taking it a bit further, those of us who praise our true Lord, can see the light, those who don't, are blinded by the light.

Fred said:

Let me make sure I understand this.

A homeless woman makes a plea for help to the president in a venue where she's seen by a wide audience. The president does what politicians do: he offers a platitude and the number of someone whose job it is to help Americans with housing.

Meanwhile, another woman sees the plight of the first. She's moved with compassion, and offers the woman a place to live rent-free as long as she needs to. She says, "We're American. That's what we're supposed to do for each other. We're supposed to help each other. So if I can help her, I will." (source) She does this independent of the government or the president, from everything I've read.

Why is everyone here trying to make this an opportunity to bash Obama? What did he do besides spout some politician-speak?

Incidentally, did you notice that the husband of the wife who offered the house is a state representative? Yep. He's a Republican.

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Thank you Fred for some sanity in this issue. That is exactly what I got from it also. It reminds me of a story a little while back.... a woman was at a home auction and saw another woman visibly upset... it turned out this was the owner of the home being auctioned... the first woman bought the home and gave it back to the owner. There are some people in this country who will help others and not just think of themselves.

Thyme said:

Fred, you're a smart guy, it's sad you don't see the scam.

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So explain it to me in small words, like I'm from Alabama.

Thyme said:

Fred, you're a smart guy, it's sad you don't see the scam. Taking it a bit further, those of us who praise our true Lord, can see the light, those who don't, are blinded by the light.

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I praise my Lord every day, but can also rejoice when I see one person helping another. The gov'ment didn't help her,,,, a private person did. Why don't you wake up and smell the scam of bashing every single good thing posted on this board.

Thyme said:

Fred, you're a smart guy, it's sad you don't see the scam. Taking it a bit further, those of us who praise our true Lord, can see the light, those who don't, are blinded by the light.

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Sorry Thyme, I don't see the "scam" either, and I am a practicing Catholic and certainly not blinded by any light. I am not blinded by partisan politics either, for that matter.
Fred pretty much summed it up.
Although this woman could just as easily begged Oprah and she probably would have a gotten a house that way too.

Did anyone see the lady to the left of the homeless woman. As Obama was giving the homeless woman what looked like a peck on the cheek and maybe a handshake...the lady to the left of her was mouthing the words "I love you Obama"!!! It was like she was in a trance or something. I just cannot believe this nonsense....ok, maybe I do!!! We are so screwed!!

BigBadBossyDog said:

I don't think it matters one whit who gave the house to whom.

I don't necessarily see it as a scam, but giving away houses to homeless people can't possibly be good for the neighborhood.

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No one gave the woman a house.

Someone much smarter than me once said that we tend to perceive the world around us as if we were surrounded by mirrors. If I am narrow minded, bitter and hateful, that's what the world and the people in it appear to be TO ME.

It's a very long way to go to get to "Obama is pulling another one of his sly tricks" from this story but I guess some of our number have the time and energy to make that journey.

We see the world through our individual lens.

Fred said:

No one gave the woman a house.

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Yes, you're correct. I should have said, "giving someone a HOME."

She's been homeless for a year. So now what? Another year in this new HOME? Two years? Three?

BigBadBossyDog said:

Who's going to pay the taxes on the thing? The utility bills? Pay for the upkeep?

I don't think it matters one whit who gave the house to whom.

I don't necessarily see it as a scam, but giving away houses to homeless people can't possibly be good for the neighborhood.

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See, but we don't know the whole story. Perhaps this woman has a job and can take care of those things.... not everyone who is homeless is without a job. Some fell into the trap that the STOOPID banking system set up a few years ago. I remember when I first starting seeing the ads for people to refinance their homes to get these HUGE reductions in their mortgage payments... and the scam got a lot of people into such trouble with their mortgages. They were essentially paying interest only on these loans that then came due in a balloon anywhere from 5-12 years later. This meant that the entire amount of the loan became due and payable at that time... this meant that they would have to refinance and pay the entire mortgage payment.... with the inflated home prices.

I knew at that moment I saw the first commercial there would be HUGE problems ahead... but I was an accountant and also sold real estate... so I understood the problem. I'll bet a lot of people even reading this forum fell for the idea of lowering their mortgage payments without reading the fine print on the papers before signing them.... not saying people are stoopid, just saying that some will look for a better way without looking down the road at the consequences. I don't blame them... not entirely... I blame the idiots who thought this could work in the first place... and now look at the trouble we are in.

BigBadBossyDog said:

So now what? Another year in this new HOME? Two years? Three?

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Who cares? This is now between the two women.

here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCCLilqr9Q

obama, can you finish landscaping my yard, put up shelves in my garage and hardwood floors in my house?

sandra said:

Some fell into the trap that the STOOPID banking system set up a few years ago. I remember when I first starting seeing the ads for people to refinance their homes to get these HUGE reductions in their mortgage payments... and the scam got a lot of people into such trouble with their mortgages. They were essentially paying interest only on these loans that then came due in a balloon anywhere from 5-12 years later. This meant that the entire amount of the loan became due and payable at that time... this meant that they would have to refinance and pay the entire mortgage payment.... with the inflated home prices.

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I certainly have no love lost for the banking/mortgage system, but these people who fell into these traps did not do their homework. They weren't smart. What kind of an idiot would fall for an "interest only" loan or a "balloon payment" loan?

Did these people simply not think?

BigBadBossyDog said:

I certainly have no love lost for the banking/mortgage system, but these people who fell into these traps did not do their homework. They weren't smart. What kind of an idiot would fall for an "interest only" loan or a "balloon payment" loan?

Did these people simply not think?

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If you were living in a place where the cheapest house in the nastiest neighborhood was 8 times your annual income, and you had a family and wanted them to have a house, I suspect YOU might have taken the offer up.

I probably would have done so - especially since the financial advisers and bankers in the area were all saying that it was a smart idea.

"The gov'ment didn't help her,,,, a private person did."

Isn't this exactly the libertarian position on charity?---that the government should not be in the business of providing everything for everyone, but that if indviduals wish to give charity it's their business and they're perfectly free to do so.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Obama but this incident isn't one of them (and if you think I've drunk the koolaid on Obama read my other posts).

seven.sixtwo said:

here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCCLilqr9Q

obama, can you finish landscaping my yard, put up shelves in my garage and hardwood floors in my house?

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I think he's going to be too busy filling potholes in the roads in your town and putting in a bike path

FREEBIRD said:

"The gov'ment didn't help her,,,, a private person did."

Isn't this exactly the libertarian position on charity?---that the government should not be in the business of providing everything for everyone, but that if indviduals wish to give charity it's their business and they're perfectly free to do so.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Obama but this incident isn't one of them (and if you think I've drunk the koolaid on Obama read my other posts).

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That's very true. Unfortunately, it's not the way the media will play it.

The storyline will go as follows:

Homeless woman attends Obama rally and walks away with a place to live. Isn't Obama wonderful!!!!!

I guess what I would be wondering is how this woman ended up at this event? Just a spontaneous thing on her part to beg or was she located and brought to the event by people hoping to set up a public miracle? Why isn't she being helped by social services in her area? There's more to this story.

And why didn't a Democrat step forward and offer her a home? The left always gives lip service to helping the poor (meaning taking money from those earning it, except for themselves, and giving it to the poor), but it's the right that statistically give more to charity. Why didn't Obama give her money from his own pocket? Oh, that's right. He never gave to charity until he thought people might notice when he started running for the senate.

Emotive responses aside. Politicans would never stage an event. We want to believe...

You know you cannot just “enter” an Obama town hall meeting. They give out tickets in advance. Who gets the tickets? People who stand in line and wait. Who tells people when and where Obama will appear next? Certainly not the Secret Service who has to protect this man. Not the MSM, who are too busy telling us how great he is without asking any critical questions.

Sooooo… how does a 61 year-old homeless woman who’s living in a pickup truck with her son JUST HAPPEN to get a ticket so she can VERY PUBLICALLY ask Prez. Obama for a HOUSE? Anyone? Who pushes her up on stage? She’s right at the front of the crowd. Did she just happen to get a seat there?

Now, within moments of this happening, it’s trumpeted all over the news. AND, surprise, surprise, the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson, Chene Thompson JUST HAPPENS to have a spare house worth $150,000 lying around, so she GIVES it to this unemployed, homeless, living-in-a-truck woman. They’ve been homeless for “more than a year”, which coincidentally, predates the current housing and banking crisis by quite a while. How did they learn about the “Obama Town Hall and Tent Revival”? Were homeless people simply rounded up? Did someone pre-canvas the area in search of “great, tear-jerking stories”? Of all the people in the audience, SHE’S one of the ones Obama chooses to ask a question?

BTW-the taxes which will be charged on this “free house” will bankrupt the poor woman. Taxes are levied based on the home’s assessed value, not on the basis of it being a “free gift”.

On a second, double-snort, the last guy who gets to ask a question JUST HAPPENS to be a 19-year-old kid of Hispanic descent who’s going to Edison State College (free tuition perhaps for in-state students?) and has worked at McDonalds for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. By my math, he started working there when he was 14! Florida child-labor law infraction, anyone? Now, having worked at McDs several times in my past I can say that they DO offer health care plans. You have to PAY for it, just like everyone else in the country does. It’s OPTIONAL. It’s not a God-given right.

…Do the Thompsons get to claim this as a charitable tax deduction against their (probably) considerable 2009 income? How many houses do they own?

Is there anyone left in the media who will ask these questions? Ever?

Fred said:

So explain it to me in small words, like I'm from Alabama.

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The scam is coming before the whole country and bawling your eyes out. How many homeless are there without the opportunity to get the same "advertisement" and immediate help?


BTW, did anyone pick up on the jackass who demanded to know why his unemployment check did not cover the full value of his prior working take-home pay (something like $3600/month)?

What a liberal jackass that guy was.

Most Christian philanthropists that I know tend to do their magic very discreetly; they try to avoid acting like the Pharisees, who like to have the spotlight shone on them regarding every good deed they do.

This appears to be a good deed, but something tells me this is a photo opp as well.

Thyme said:

Next he will be performing miracles.

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If that happens that will not be a dot but the whole frakking book.

FREEBIRD said:

"The gov'ment didn't help her,,,, a private person did."

Isn't this exactly the libertarian position on charity?---that the government should not be in the business of providing everything for everyone, but that if indviduals wish to give charity it's their business and they're perfectly free to do so.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Obama but this incident isn't one of them (and if you think I've drunk the koolaid on Obama read my other posts).

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+1

That lady beside really did say, "I love you, Barack!" OMG. You have got to be kidding me.

sandra said:

Thank you Fred for some sanity in this issue. That is exactly what I got from it also. It reminds me of a story a little while back.... a woman was at a home auction and saw another woman visibly upset... it turned out this was the owner of the home being auctioned... the first woman bought the home and gave it back to the owner. There are some people in this country who will help others and not just think of themselves.

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Isn't life about using your intelligence to help others??? Why must there be an ulterior motive behind it all???

Yes, I have been screwed by others and it is no fun, but doing good without thought of repayment is so much better. Besides, what else am I going to do with the totally useless information in my head??? I believe a person's true motives will be shown by their acts. This is a very large country and one must think outside the box to see solutions....they are there.....

It seems some here may have missed the overarching issue: the president, Barry Soetoro/Buraq Hussein Mohammed Obama, has unwittingly assumed the role of "Materiel Provider/Facilitator-in-Chief" to the needy. Get some media face time with the MP/FIC, lob a compelling sob story over the airwaves, and you, too, can derive freebies from some sympathetic soul(s) or some governmental aggregation thereof. (We prefer to portray Barry as assuming the mantle of the MP/FIC, rather than an alternate role as the tawdry pitchman/barker for a governmental benefits sweepstakes, which is probably closer to the truth.)

Soetoro has unwittingly (and, he will come to note, rather stupidly) cast himself in the lead role of a play entitled "Magic Barry and his Loaves and Fishes." While his involvement in helping Ms. Hughes may have its heartwarming aspect, Barry will come to rue the day this event ever happened, simply for the horrible precedent it sets in the minds of his supporters.

It marks the day that Soetoro's presidency ended, and his "ministry" began.

Thyme said:

Next he will be performing miracles.

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he is already capable of making $1 Trillion appear out of nowhere.

I would love to think that the giving of a home was done with a Christian heart. But the older I get, the more jaded I get. There are no free rides. The whole thing smells a little bit funny to me.

Fred said:

No one gave the woman a house.

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This is a quote from YOUR source: "They're offering the home rent-free for as long as Hughes needs it."

pixmo said:

Most Christian philanthropists that I know tend to do their magic very discreetly; they try to avoid acting like the Pharisees, who like to have the spotlight shone on them regarding every good deed they do.

This appears to be a good deed, but something tells me this is a photo opp as well.

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You're so right!

The $150,000 home may have been given by a private citizen, doesn't mean it wasn't staged for a photo-op. It's just more frosting on obamas cake mesmerizing the hurting public.

People are gullible when they've lost/loosing everything. They are looking for someone to believe in. Photo ops like this give them hope in a new saviour.

Amaryllis said:

This is a quote from YOUR source: "They're offering the home rent-free for as long as Hughes needs it."

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Indeed. They're offering to let her live there rent-free, as I said in my first post.

They're not giving her a house. Did you see what I was responding to when I posted that? BigBadBossyDog referred to "giving away a house." That didn't happen; the owners retained ownership.

Fred said:

Indeed. They're offering to let her live there rent-free, as I said in my first post.

They're not giving her a house. Did you see what I was responding to when I posted that? BigBadBossyDog referred to "giving away a house." That didn't happen; the owners retained ownership.

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Holy Crap!!! Please tell me you are being sarcastic. Rent free. As long as she needs it. If they ain't charging her, how in the hell is it not free???? Once she's there rent free, she'll stay there rent free. They are giving her the house, unless there is a contract stating otherwise, she'll practically have squatter's rights. I hope for the owner's sake there is a contract involved.

I can not believe the "hardened hearts" that have posted here. It is a display of what this society has become over the years. Society has become poisoned by hatred, incompassion, and a a selfish driven purpose to the point that when someone helps another, you would consider it a scam.

Thank God someone offered this women a home. This shows me maybe we as a country might have a chance yet.

Oh and Thyme, please do not include me in your religious understanding of what a believer is, the Lord I serve would have done exactly what this represenitive's wife did in helping this women out.

I am astounded that no one here caught what the homeless women said, about the housing authority taking up to 2 years to help her, thats where the shame should be directed IMO.

Jim_bo

jim_bo said:

I can not believe the "hardened hearts" that have posted here. It is a display of what this society has become over the years. Society has become poisoned by hatred, incompassion, and a a selfish driven purpose to the point that when someone helps another, you would consider it a scam.

Thank God someone offered this women a home. This shows me maybe we as a country might have a chance yet.

Oh and Thyme, please do not include me in your religious understanding of what a believer is, the Lord I serve would have done exactly what this represenitive's wife did in helping this women out.

I am astounded that no one here caught what the homeless women said, about the housing authority taking up to 2 years to help her, thats where the shame should be directed IMO.

Jim_bo

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+1,000 I think that a lot of people here are so paranoid, they cannot accept that there are good people still left in this country.