Obama promised woman a better life. Now she’s selling his hand-written letter to avoid eviction.

Destiny Mathis, one of the gullible ObamaBots who dedicated herself to getting this charlatan elected back in 2008, isn’t getting the kind of help she expected from her President.

The Daily Mail UK explains her heartbreaking situation:

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"How much am I bid for this hand-written letter from Barack Obama?"

Opening the handwritten letter from President Obama brought a glimmer of hope to her life as he promised her that things would get better for her and her family.

And despite the fact Destiny Mathis, from Hobart, Indiana, treasured the letter, more than two years later she has no choice but to sell it as she and her three children face eviction from their home.

The 26-year-old was an avid campaigner for Mr Obama in 2008, getting T-shirts made and encouraging people in her neighbourhood to vote.

Back then her life was tough but she had hope for her own future and the future of America.

She graduated top of her class in 2005 and was working as a surgical technician while also helping her mother, who was battling cancer at the time.

She said: ‘I campaigned for him hard. I got the shirts made, the Barack the Vote shirts made. We’ve done a lot.’

We initially felt badly for Destiny. Then we noticed something about the photo that came with her story – the one that showed the 26-year old with her three kids, including a baby and another one that’s still young enough to suck on a bottle.

Our questions for Destiny:

Did it ever occur to you to keep your knees together rather than cranking kids out on an assembly line?

If you graduated from school in 2005 and have had at least two kids since then, how much have you actually worked since you got out of school?

If you were unable to work because you were either pregnant or raising your children, have you been on welfare?

Where’s the father or fathers of your children? He or they seem to be conspicuously absent from this story and your personal finances.

And finally, Destiny, how’s that hopey changey thing working out for you?

Source: Daily Mail UK

This post was last modified on June 16, 2011

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  • So if she had a degree for a good paying position that is not just going to magically dry up, she could do temp or part time on that or another job. A lot of people don’t realize what women can do when things are tight and difficult.
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    You know something, Kimmy? I agree with you 100%.

    Now that we're clear on that, explain to me what makes you so sure that she isn't already trying those things.

  • Oh, and while I'm at it, maybe you should sit back and ask yourself this:
    How does a woman go from working as a surgical tech to being evicted from her home? While you want to judge those who are on welfare, some of those on welfare actually worked good steady jobs at one time. Who knows if she's even on welfare, but do ask yourself how they lose that job, and eventually lose their income to the point where they need help from the government. Maybe something happened in her life, something that one should never judge.

    • There is no shortage of jobs for surgical techs. There's something else going on here. Maybe she overburdened herself with too many illegitimate children?

      • The medical industry is hot. A lot of aging people, so you are right. She couldn't continue prhaps because she lacks the community and familial help to take care of her kids and/or she lacks the funds to pay someone to come in and take care of her kids. If she had one child and one child alone I am sure she could have continued just fine.

        • The medical industry is hot. A lot of aging people, so you are right. She couldn’t continue prhaps because she lacks the community and familial help to take care of her kids and/or she lacks the funds to pay someone to come in and take care of her kids. If she had one child and one child alone I am sure she could have continued just fine.

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          You're making blind assumptions here.

          In fact, we have no way of knowing how much of this problem, if any, was due to carelessness or irresponsibility. It could be that the woman is exactly what most of the far righters here seem to want to believe: an irresponsible single woman who keeps having kids without concerning herself with how she'll take care of them.

          On the other hand, it could also be that the father of all three kids (yes! It's true! Some black women's children are all fathered by the same man!) died or abandoned or divorced her. As for her job, we don't know how many opportunities are out there for OR techs. Some hospitals----my own included-----have had hiring freezes going on for many months. No hiring except from within, and then only if staff has truly been cut to the bone, and there still isn't enough. We don't know, because the story doesn't give us a detailed account of her personal life.

          In any case, why is it that so many posters here are addicted to assigning blame, rather than trying to figure out what the problem is, and how it could be most effectively addressed? Seems like, whenever a story like this comes up, all you can think of is your own self-esteem, and how to feed it by running down someone else.

          • My lady is a traveling nurse. There is no shortage of work for any trained professionals in the medical field. If one hospital, or even every hospital in a particular area, isn't hiring, move. There are plenty of facilities begging for trained personnel. Again, Olivia is a fool. Or just thinks we are fools.

          • For nursing, that's true but for other hospital jobs, no so much. I have been fortunate enough to survive 2 lay-offs this past year. And it isn't just housekeeping, maintainance, and food service jobs being cut. It's tech jobs (rad techs, surg techs, lab techs and bio techs, etc.) and administraitor positions being eliminated. I'm a Nuclear Medicine Tech and I've been looking to see where the jobs are should I happen to be laid-off and the only place I've have seen nuc jobs is in, gasp, California. Most of which were PRN. Dear Lord, please let me keep my job. There was one job posted here locally not to lnog ago. 82 Nuc Med Techs applied for that one opening. It's rough out there even in the medical field.

          • Sorry you're having problems, DRB. I'm just looking at all the offers coming in from all over the country to put my lady to work, and assuming that there's work out there. I do understand that not everyone has their life put together in a way that they can just pack a bag and go wherever they want.

          • To be fair it can depends on the state. In TX there are so many job openings for all kinds of medical/hospital/lab technician/etc positions that I have considered changing courses. The point is though that thre is always a job out there, that pays something. I know this to be the truth. However, this lady got her Obama letter and if she plays it right she will get 10K which is nothing to sniff at, so all that i hope is that she is going to be responsible with it.

            As per your own situation, I am very sorry about you not being able to get a job in your field at this point in time. Keep at it, keep positive and if you can find anything that pays something i hope it helps until you can get something better.

          • So, if she does get $10,000 for the letter, will that amount be deducted from her welfare check? Or at least added to her income figures so that she won't qualify for the year?

          • Those are good questions. Even if she gets 5K, it is like winning the lotto. She will probably have to pay tax on that and since it is considered income of sorts perhaps count against her welfare (if she gets it). I wish someone would do a follow up on her (and the other Obama letters people).

          • So, if she does get $10,000 for the letter, will that amount be deducted from her welfare check? Or at least added to her income figures so that she won’t qualify for the year?
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            Of course it would, since TANF is income based.

            I'm sure YOU'VE never collected any money that you failed to report as additional income to the IRS, right?

          • No, no I do have a job in my field plus 2 other paying jobs (however low that pay may be)... I was just saying IF i get laid-off, as it is a possibility. Sorry, if I wasn't clear.

          • oh okay well that is the story of most of the employed. yes it is taxing to think as to what would happen so that is why it is important to have a bit of a six month safety net just in case.

          • A daddy's perspective: my wife and i have three kids.. 8, 6, and almost 4

            If I, gods forbid, left her and just vanished.. without support. I shudder to think of how bad it would be for them

            I'd never do this, of course. I don't know how she's supposed to plan for this. It'd be easier if I just died (life insurance)..

            Her mom is dead. Her dad and brother can't take care of them. She isn't going to quickly get any kind of decent paying job, especially in this economy

          • Perhaps not decent paying, but paying nonetheless. The difference between your story and hers is that her situation was avoidable. You cannot avoid true accidents like you one day deciding that you no longer want to do the family thing after years of doing the family thing. It seems that the man (men) that she had children with didn't plan nor did the family thing with her for a consistent time frame.

            However yes she has issues and problems and there is no one to take care of her. If she has no neighbors, church community nor is there any community based help that she can go to she is definetly in a bad way. I refuse to believe that they ALL do not exist... but still in a bad way if it is true she has no other group or person to ask help from. However she can still get a job even if temp or part time that does provide something and in addition to the selling of the letter and whatever else that she can do she will be able to balance herself. If anything I would advise her to leave that house and get a smaller place or else an apartment.

            So if she had a degree for a good paying position that is not just going to magically dry up, she could do temp or part time on that or another job. A lot of people don't realize what women can do when things are tight and difficult.

  • It saddens me that a human being posted those questions in their very own article. It went from being very heartfelt, to showing me that the writer is nothing but an ignorant prick.

    To start, do you not have a large enough vocabulary, that 'cranking' seems to be the only word that comes to your mind? Secondly, having three children isn't unheard of, nor would I automatically assume because one has three children, that they're 'cranking' babies out on an assembly line.

    Secondly, whether she worked or not isn't even the issue. Some women are able to be stay at home mothers while their husbands work, but again, one automatically assumes. The same can be said about the welfare statement. Does she need welfare just because she couldn't work during her pregnancies? Why can't her husband or boyfriend provide without people assuming the worst? Maybe asking her before passing judgement would be a nice thing to do, but then again, that's asking a lot from someone who is posting ignorant shit.

    Where’s the father or fathers of your children? Again, maybe you should have asked that before posting this article, it might have done you a bit of good. Women should not be viewed as whores because they have three children.

    To say this is typical of black women is a bit much, maybe you should stop with your hating selves and discuss the real issue because yes, white women are on welfare too. I think it's easier for people to categorize others because of what they see and hear. If you live in an all black neighborhood, it would seem obvious that you're only going to be seeing black at the welfare office. If you live in a town that is 98% white, of course you're going to be seeing more whites in the welfare line. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with where they live, and what circumstances surround that area. If it's a poor neighborhood, you are likely to see a lot of poor people living there. That makes more sense than the ignorance being spewed here.

    Maybe what we should be discussing, is how my grandfather found himself able to afford the seventeen children he had, yet today, a woman can't afford to take care of three. Maybe we should be looking at our government, who seem to want to make it harder, and much more expensive to live.

    And to sum this up, telling someone to keep their legs shut is just as ignorant. I don't think it's fair to tell someone they can't have children because they can't afford them. I don't think having children should only be a blessing for the rich who can afford it, but for all women who really want to have children.

    • So... she cannot afford her own kids and what happens then? they go hungry? or does she then have to rely on someone else to take care of her kids? Why do I have to pay for what other people want that they didn't plan ahead to have (saved to have)? That sounds crazy to me. Just because you want something yet you cannot afford it, it doesnt make it okay for me to have to come in and pay for it because you didn't plan ahead. I wonder if you would be okay if I was the one demanding things from you, that I want and that you have to pay for?

    • "I don’t think it’s fair to tell someone they can’t have children because they can’t afford them. I don’t think having children should only be a blessing for the rich who can afford it, but for all women who really want to have children."

      I don't think it's fair to tell someone they can't have a Ferrari because they can't afford one. I don't think having a Ferrari should only be a blessing for the rich who can afford them, but for all people who really want to have Ferraris.

      Now shut up and get to work so you can afford to buy me my freakin' Ferrari.

  • The best part of this story? She lives in Indiana. The man she wasted her time campaigning for is threatening to cut off federal funds meant to provide healthcare for low-income Hoosiers (like herself and her children) because Indiana doesn't want to use those funds to kill babies.

    Forcing taxpayers to cover the cost of killing her next baby is more important to Obama than helping her already-born babies.

    YES YOU DID!

    • The best part of this story? She lives in Indiana. The man she wasted her time campaigning for is threatening to cut off federal funds meant to provide healthcare for low-income Hoosiers (like herself and her children) because Indiana doesn’t want to use those funds to kill babies.
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      No, it's just the opposite: antichoicers are using people like her to force their own particular beliefs on Indiana's residents.

  • " OBAMA IS GOING TO BUY ME A HOUSE , WITH A REAL KITCHEN In It , AND A CAR WITH A TANK OF GAS " L M F A O , Your Lucky If You Have A Bus Pass , and A Pair Of Tennis shoes , At Least In China , You Could Sell Your Kids Kidneys For Money . As In The Infamous Words Of P. T. Barnum , " THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE ".

  • Sad for the toddlers, something bad is probably going to happen to them when she runs out of money and situation becomes worst.

  • After reading most of the responces , a few thoughts come to mind.
    (1)-- Train up a child in the way he shall go , and when he is old , he will not depart from it. We have sub-cultures , both black and white , that produce mostly institutionalized failure as a majority of most of its expression. Its the old addage , " Whatever you tax , you get less of . Whatever you subsidize you get more of. When hard work and real effort are taxed to death to subsidize habitual failure , laziness and in general consistantly bad decisions , WHO IN THE HELL IS SURPRIZED BY THE PRODUCT ? Anyone with a brain isn't.
    I see it over and over and over , the children are almost never much different than the folks thay brought them into the world. I've seen great people rise from unbelieveable starts. It really does happen. I wish it happened more. Most of the time , its not like that at all. If anything when I look out at the neighborhoods in our city , it sure as hell doesn't look like things are getting better. When you learn that good things come from those that work , instead of honest effort , well I guess it can grow on you , and your children and their children . Consider the birds , who go out and look for food , every day because they , with very little brain , understand completely that GOD provides. The god of these type of folks isn't doing a very good job.
    (2)-- Lets see , the men in her life lied to her . The man that wrote that letter , lied to her. What have I learned ? What I learned long ago , some people love being lied too. To seek out honest people isn't high on the thought pattern for many people . To accept a lie , one has to believe it first. I wonder how it is , that people find themselves in their same predictament over and over again . The truth is , I realy don't wonder at all . "----- when they are old , they will not depart from it."

    I would love for this women , to learn what she needs to learn , so that she and her children can have the life that wisdom could lead them too. Time will tell as there is always , Real Hope .

    • Well said. I think that there are a lot of factors in play, but at the same time she made her choices. I can only hope her children break the mold that she did not break. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone does something they shouldn't have done. What we need to do is learn from those mistakes and grow up.

      • Which she is obviously not doing. Her kids don't stand much of a chance, being raised by a combination of a retarded single mother, and the state.

        • Which she is obviously not doing. Her kids don’t stand much of a chance, being raised by a combination of a retarded single mother, and the state.

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          ANOTHER blind assumption. First, the woman is an OR tech, which (whatever else you want to say about her) is evidence that she's no dummy. And, second, where's your evidence that the "state" is raising her kids?

        • Other than realizing the trap they are in and do what they can to get out and not repeat her mistakes, yes they will become another statistic. Well the other option is for a responsibile mentor to come into their lives. If their Mother does nothing to to look for a mentor for her children or someone doesn't appear into their lives again they will become another statistic. It is very sad.

  • Boy...You NAILED it right on the head.
    The problem in this country right now is that we can't even try to discuss every legitimate question you raised......you'd probably end up in jail for some hate crime.
    Would LOVE the see this on MSNBC as one of thier Human interest articles.

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