I am a Hard-working White Person and I support Barack Obama.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Anyone else?

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Edit: And no, I don't have a college degree. And I don't drink lattes. I'm a bus driver.

(I used to have a mocha or two each week but I don't really think that made me more elite).

[reflection]

1. 2 jobs, 2 kids, one cracker vote for Obama here. n/t

[FlyingSquirrel]

6. One job (but long hours), 2 kids, $20,000 in debt.

[reflection]

13. I have surprisingly little debt. (knock on wood)

My wife and I are both very frugal. We live waaaaaay below our means. And our kids don't know any differently, so it all works out well. But like they say, life is what happens after you make plans.

[FlyingSquirrel]

23. I had no debt until 2002.

The school district I drove a school bus for decided to oust my Union contractor and go with a non-Union shop. Shortly thereafter, I met someone and got married (using credit cards, mainly, to finance what was a bare-bones wedding but still cost a lot. Plus the ring.) From there on it just started escalating (but we didn't go all crazy buying expensive furniture or anything like that.)

We're finally starting to pay it down some, but the only way for me to REALLY pay it down is to work the extra board - which means 12 hours over a 14-hour period, possibly longer. I just can't do that much anymore.

I blame corporatism for this. The push for lower wages, weaker benefits, and allowing usurious credit card rates (they started low enough, but quickly got jacked up to the point where it is extremely hard to really pay it down).

[reflection]

25. Credit cards will kill you.

My whole family has bought into my philosophy, which is "debt builds debt, and wealth builds wealth." We have one card with a $100K limit (because they keep raising it on me) but it gets paid off every month. But it's real easy for a credit card to get away from you if everyone isn't on the same page. I hope you're able to get that thing down to a manageable balance. Good luck!

:toast:

[cliffordu]

45. It took me years but I finally got debt free five years ago....

Never felt better, healthier or smarter....


:headbang:

[uponit7771]

32. lol

[crankychatter]

2. sorry... but I should thank you tax-payers for subsidizing my sloth

*yawn*

sleeping till noon every day can be laborious, ya know

[slackmaster]

3. Chronically sub-rich hard-working underpaid white techie for Obama

:hi:

[BOSSHOG]

4. I will

whole heartedly support whomever the dems nominate. Always have (since 1980.) I used to be hard working and I am white. If Obama is the candidate he'll get my support despite the efforts of many Obama lunatics on DU with their UNITY campaign.

[Bensthename]

5. 33 yr old blue collar whitey, proudly voting for Obama here..

[scheming daemons]

7. His white base is well-educated and makes lots of money.... obviously we are LAZY!

ANYBODY can make it through college, get advanced degrees, make a good salary, and do well for themselves if they would just be a little LESS hard-working!

[TBF]

14. We also pay our taxes, pay back our student loans, vote democratic and contribute to charities

because we are lazy and elitist.

[Saturday]

8. You forgot something didn't you? .......

"I am a BITTER Hard-working White Person and I support Barack Obama."

[FlyingSquirrel]

9. I AM bitter.

[Kittycat]

15. Don't tell me you are at least a little bitter when you...

Go to put gas in your car, or buy groceries. I sure the hell am.

[msallied]

10. You don't even want to know... But I'm one of 'em. lol

[BklynChick]

11. one white hardworking person voting for obama, child of two 70something hard working white people

living in the south who voted for obama and will vote for obama in the GE, and married to a hardworking black person voting for obama.

woohoo!

[Az_lefty]

12. Me too! 2 jobs, 1 child still at home. Never had a latte in my life.

what the hell is that anyway?

[TBF]

18. Heh. It's just coffee or tea with milk it in. Not a big deal. People spend their money on

different things... Of course, if we have 8 more years of republican rule no one will be able to afford coffee or tea, much less with milk it in. ;)

[roseBudd]

38. I make my own with a $15 espresso stovetop pot from TJMaxx, TJMaxx coffee and froth my own milk

[FlyingSquirrel]

44. Elitist.

:D

[roseBudd]

58. When I do spring for a coffeeshop latte the baristas disparge my TJMaxx coffee

[DemVet]

16. BFD

[FlyingSquirrel]

48. ...

:hi:

[Pawel K]

17. I'm white with no degree, working 10-15 hard hours a day in 2 good jobs and I support Obama.

who'd a thunk it?

[roseBudd]

19. White woman, college educated, information technology, my high stress/info job is hard work!

[Demobrat]

20. Hard-working white woman for Obama here.

Although I probably don't count since I live in San Francisco, which is not really America, and suck down lattes on a daily basis, which makes me an
elitist.

[TexasLady]

21. Family of seven, two jobs

two in college, rest in school. No degrees.

Perpetually behind in all our bills.

Happy to be an Obama supporter.
:hi:

[K Gardner]

22. One bitter old Folgers-drinking hard-working white woman here.

[The Traveler]

24. Got a college degree but I drink Folgers not latte

My degree is in physics but I have worked as a programmer or engineer all my adult life. I'm a pretty nuts and bolts kinda guy, really. Work 50-60 hours a week routinely. Southern guy. Motor head. Likes NASCAR. Owns guns. Clinging to them pretty tight right now! :rofl: Drinks beer. Will be very pleased to vote for Barack Obama in November of this year.

Clinton finally lost me completely yesterday. I have a multi-racial stepson. He just came into my office to give me a random hug and demonstrate his newest Tae Kwon Do form. Heading off to his first competition next week end. The kid rocks. Absolutely rocks. Every time I look at him and think of Hillary's latest, my blood boils. All along, I have said she wasn't my favorite but that I would vote for her without hesitation. Now I am not so sure. I may have to vote for her to vote against McCain, whose election would spell disaster for America, but I am pretty sure I would have to bathe immediately afterwards.

She has finally gone way too far. It would be hard for her to earn my respect again. (I never quite trusted her, but I did respect her and believed her intentions good ... until now.)

So, yeah man, I'm with ya. Guess we're elitists to the core, eh?

[rox63]

26. If I only have a 2-year degree from a community college, am I disqualified?

It's not like it's a university degree. And I've never had a latte either. White, middle-aged, hard-working woman for Obama here.

[OnionPatch]

63. Sounds like me.

Two years at the CC, white, working woman, never drank a latte, etc. but I have had a cappucino, does that count?

While feeding my chickens this morning, I was chuckling to myself at the idea that I am an elitist.

[goldcanyonaz]

27. Nothing wrong with being hard working.

[scheming daemons]

28. ..the problem is that Hillary thinks that ONLY white people are hard-working....

[goldcanyonaz]

31. RIght, Clintons are racist.

[scheming daemons]

34. No..but they're pandering to them.... almost as bad....

[goldcanyonaz]

37. They are polititians, they pander every day.

[Jed Dilligan]

29. I'm a lazy white person.

[Raven]

30. Well damn! I'm a hard working, white, 62 year old woman who

is probably over educated and I support Obama. What am I missing?????

[Career Prole]

33. I live in the South. I never finished college. My rented work shirts

actually have blue collars. I support Barack Obama.

[Andy823]

35. So am I

And I am sick of hearing people say that just because we didn't vote for Hillary, we are not party of the hard working white class! I have been working since I was a kid, served my country during the Vietnam war in the Army, came back home and worked for $2.50 an hour in the orchards, worked my way up to become a manager, then after an injury I went back to school, college, at the age of 46, and got myself an AA degree. I now own my own business, and my wife and I work pretty much 7 days a week! I drink folgers coffee, own a ford focus and a doge van, have a chevy truck to plow snow with, and have never gone to Starbucks in my life!

The county I live in voted for Obama, just like every other county in Washington state, it it's a rural county far from the big cities. Obama can and has gotten the votes of the "working class whites" to say otherwise is simply another lie!

[mystieus]

36. Thank you for your support! And please, don't fall for Hillary's divisive campaigning.

WE ARE ALL AMERICANS!

[sniffa]

39. Me too

I bust my ass now in the field every day. Today, we hauled ass, but it wasn't as tiring as some days. Good day all around. :bounce:

I do have a college degree, and I don't drink lattes. Aside from a weekend Mocha every once in a while, I drink my coffee strong and black.

[TragedyandHope]

40. I'm not an easily pigeonholed American and I support Barack Obama

[FlyingSquirrel]

43. That's a great picture :-)

[TragedyandHope]

46. Thanks, I just found it today

[BlooInBloo]

41. Me too. You're a good squirrel. :)

[Missouri Girl]

42. Count me in!

Milk-toast, German Irish White here. Under 50k. Working full-time, 39 y/o, 2 kids, trying to get myself through college to get my degree. I don't drink coffee. I do, however, prefer Michelob over Bud. Sorry, no PBR. Michelob might just kick me over the Elite side. Oops!

[cliffordu]

47. Yep, Me too...!!!

[wildeyed]

49. I am a hard working 40 year old white woman from the South.

No college degree either. Not only support Obama, but volunteered for his campaign. But I read books for fun and dislike processed food, so I am probably elitist at the same time. :shrug:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

50. OBAMA IS MIXED, SO STOP THE LILLY-WHITE NONSENSE

[FlyingSquirrel]

51. I don't quite get what you mean

but I certainly heard you loud and clear.

:hi:

[Peterquagmire]

52. Hillary wasn't talking about white DU'ers only

Who are kinda unrepresentative of all Democrats.

[LisaL]

53. I like lattes and I don't support him.

Go figure.

[VotesForWomen]

54. and i dont't; so i'm a racist and hillary's a racist. yawn.

[barack the house]

55. In some ways it actually attacked white folk more.Obama has hard working folk on his side all shades

[FlyingSquirrel]

65. Good point. nt

[barack the house]

56. I like Bob Kincaid's new title Hillbilly elitist.=)

[mikekohr]

57. Working Class, Rural, White,Backwoods, Stump Jumping,Gun Owing, No Degree, 50 Year Old For Obama

OBAMA -believe-

mike kohr

[bagimin]

59. Me too ...and I am not young!

dammit.

[BlooInBloo]

60. Actually, that's not possible, according to (oh so admirable) Clinton supporters....

You hurt America with your lies.

[MirrorAshes]

61. I support him, but apparently I'm an "egghead"

a menacing bunch we are, with our high-falutin degrees and what-not. definitely gotta keep the likes of us out of the debate.

[L0oniX]

62. I'm a lazy fuck and I am for Obama. Don't hate me because I have it easy.

Burp !

[Unbowed]

64. Ditto.

Do have college education though, but that and the price of a latte doesn't get one very far in today's economy. There are more ditch diggers, laborers, mechanics, truck drivers, retail clerks and janitors with college degrees than ever before.

Is there a special category for us educated, working-class stiffs with low-paying jobs? Maybe we are the Bubba Elite.

[Kablooie]

66. Don't tell Hillary. It will embarrass her.

[globalvillage]

67. Hard working, white, Catholic, over 40 woman

from PA for Obama.

I have a college degree, though, so I guess it's OK.