Michelle Obama: Helping those that need help

I see Michelle is even posing for the picture. One has to wonder why people that can't afford to buy food wander around with blackberries, gold jewelry, Nike shoes, and drive " souped up " cars. But hey you know it's the " Let's milk it for all we can " mentality. Unbelievable! I myself am on a very modest income but you don't see me driving an expensive car or wearing expensive jewelry. Heck my cell phone is a $10 prepaid and I only got that because of my medical conditions so I can call 911 or help if I need to while on the road. I have to hand it to Mrs. Obama though at least she is out in the public trying to do good. Working in soup kitchens visiting lower income areas etc.. That's more than many others have done in the past.

I got a "not found" on your link but am I to understand that one of the meal recipients had a Blackberry? I can see someone that has one down on his/her luck after a few months and hanging onto it but what about the monthly service fees? If they can pay that, they don't need free food. Or maybe they're paying the service fee in hopes of finding a job and that's their last link to the business world? Regardless, it looks very bad.

The requested URL /news/politics/blog/2009/03/michelle_obamas_soupkitchen_du.htm was not found on this server..........I wasn't able to view the link sadly since I like to read more about stuff.. But I think it is great that she is helping out at the soup kitchens and such..but yeah they do need to look into government problems..it could have been person posing as a homeless person to get to see Michelle and take photos. Could have been a reporter even.

Reminds me while waiting in a court waiting room one time, we was by the Legal Aide Attorney's office. We could hear him talking to the people that came up to the door, to get free legal help for themselves or a relative. I watched as the attorney took the information from peopel that came to the door adorned in their fine gold jewerly. Tons of gold chains around their necks, gold and diamond rings, he would talk to each one then tell them to have a seat. I watched as he stood their looking at the bunch sitting out in the lobby, he came out and stated all you people that I have talked to today, seem to be able to afford all the gold and diamonds you have on, but you can't find money for a attorney, I suggest you sell the jewerly and pay and attorney. I wanted to stand up and cheer, finally someone that told it like it was. Some one that saw that they spent what little they had on pieces of gold and didn't have anything left for when it was really needed. I think the man who was taking pics with his fancy cell phone should of been sent out of the line. Same as the ones that are in the casinos and bingo on the first of the month, or the barroom. He says he will do something to stop this but what will happen is the poor that really need it and the elderly or disabled will be the ones to lose in the end. The ones we see committing the fraud will always be there.

It's about time....there is a past though...many many fraudulent things going on like them paying big bucks for even tools etc....that was a priceless moment...hope they had a little visit with him! I remember years ago when they gave out commodities (rice, cheese etc) some of the richest people from our town could be found in line!

Many of our newly homeless were in much better financial condition a year or so ago. A lot have lost their jobs and their homes. It's best not to judge a situation like this, a homeless person may very well have a blackberry. You don't read in the press how many of our people have truly lost everything and are having to start over again after many years on a job.

I think that would make a good MasterCard commercial. I do wonder if the person receiving the free bowl of soup is driving a Cadillac?

There is nothing in the article to say the gentleman was homeless, but you never know. I was at Family Dollar two weeks ago a customer wip out the food stamp card not sure the right name. I drove off in my old Toyota, and home girl drove off in a Mercedez Benz.

How strange....that link is now a "Not Found 404" who would imagine that happening??? Talk about a setup. I wonder if they use professional actors.... silly me....course they do.

I think there is nothing wrong in taking pictures of the first lady using an expensive blackberry celphone. One cant just take the whole world and its worries i think. Though I believe in doing ones share but having good things in life shouldn't make one feel guilty. In order to have expensive things, most people has to work for it. And being a normal person, i would take pictures too if i see the first lady doing those things. It's not as if i see the first lady everyday and doing those things. It is indeed, PRICELESS.

People come by things in all sorts of ways, more, so what's the big deal? It could be that the person using the Blackberry had it long before he fell on hard times. I know that I retain some of the belongings that I acquired during more prosperous times. Should I get rid of them because I'm in a lower income bracket these days? As for having a meal served to me by our First Lady Michele Obama - priceless!

lmao....this is too funny! I guess the picture wasn't politically correct and was removed?!

there is nothing wrong with her having a beautiful cellphone. serving the people does not mean that we have to see t hem strapped of cash too. i idea of serving people is to uplift them from poverty and help them to live to recover and not for the servers to go down to poverty as the poor he is serving.

There maybe a good explanation for that.. I hope so... Perhaps it was one of the people who works at the soup kitchen instead of a customer... or maybe someone wealthy donated the phone to homeless. They do have places around here where you can donate your phone to the shelter. They give them to people so that they can get jobs, and also to battered women so that they can call for emergency medical attention.

hmmmmmmmmmm what a fraud that is!

Sorry, I didn't hear the news item, so I don't get your gist. Are you saying somone was find hundreds of dollars for taking a pic of Mrs Obama at a homeless event at the Whitehouse?

Oh man. That's...there are no adequate words.

It's priceless all right. Especially, since she probably did not even notice that blackberry.

Oh! That was a homeless taking a photo of Michelle Obama? One might think that it could possibly be a bystander chancing upon the First Lady while she was volunteering during that day. Well, anyway, if that was a homeless man, that photo really is priceless.

[b]I have a low opinion of that woman's poisoned mind. At least she is a First Lady," though, unlike "Queen Hillary," who was often referred to as the "First B*itch," if for no other reason than her practice of ordering the White House staff to avert their eyes whenever she passed them in the hallways. Or one might point to her (& her hubby's) tendency to use the White House guards as their private servants to fetch & carry things. I've yet to hear of Michelle doing anything that arrogant.... Still, after a knee-jerk twinge of anger at this latest all-too-typical leftist goofiness, I actually burst out laughing. I mean, it is absurd. Plus, either you laugh, or you cry, & the latter gives one the ugliest wrinkles.... Maggiepie[/b]