Oh, poor me...poor me !!!

[JDgreen227]

I can't fathom why he thought smoking in the picture would make his case look good?

As Mossflower Woods pointed out in an earlier post, the man portrayed in the story should have been careful to determine if and what photos of him would be featured in the article. Perhaps the writer chose the picture for the identical reason I decried the fellow...or perhaps it was the only one. Who knows?

BTW, I want to thank everyone here who has contributed an opinion to this thread, and I thank you also for being civil enough that the moderators here have chosen not to remove the thread because it smacks of politics. Perhaps 3 weeks ago I started a thread about a welfare client in Michigan who became a Megabuck lottery winner and was recently found dead, and for some reason that thread was removed after perhaps ten posts. When I inquired of a moderator, he told me the thread was removed for political reasons...although I made no reference to politics at all.

 

[jmurray01]

As Mossflower Woods pointed out in an earlier post, the man portrayed in the story should have been careful to determine if and what photos of him would be featured in the article. Perhaps the writer chose the picture for the identical reason I decried the fellow...or perhaps it was the only one. Who knows?

BTW, I want to thank everyone here who has contributed an opinion to this thread, and I thank you also for being civil enough that the moderators here have chosen not to remove the thread because it smacks of politics. Perhaps 3 weeks ago I started a thread about a welfare client in Michigan who became a Megabuck lottery winner and was recently found dead, and for some reason that thread was removed after perhaps ten posts. When I inquired of a moderator, he told me the thread was removed for political reasons...although I made no reference to politics at all.

 

[EE_Bota]

I can't fathom why he thought smoking in the picture would make his case look good?

He might have been under the misapprehension that he could just be himself in a free country. Someone asked him questions and he answered them, and someone asked to take a picture, and he said "sure." That's my guess.

 

[jmurray01]

He might have been under the misapprehension that he could just be himself in a free country. Someone asked him questions and he answered them, and someone asked to take a picture, and he said "sure." That's my guess.

Oh yes it's a free country and I'm not anti-smoking, but the fact is if you are in such dire financial straits as he apparently is in, spending money on cigarettes really isn't going to help, is it?

 

[EE_Bota]

Oh yes it's a free country and I'm not anti-smoking, but the fact is if you are in such dire financial straits as he apparently is in, spending money on cigarettes really isn't going to help, is it?

Smoking is an addiction, albeit to a legal drug. I bet the fellow wishes he had never taken it up, and he may have wished he could quit a thousand times. I know plenty of folks that feel that way. But I'd have to ask him to know. I think the reporter should have covered that question in the interview if he/she intended to use that photo. But maybe it was wished that the reader would be unsympathetic to the fellow.

 

[jmurray01]

Smoking is an addiction, albeit to a legal drug. I bet the fellow wishes he had never taken it up, and he may have wished he could quit a thousand times. I know plenty of folks that feel that way. But I'd have to ask him to know. I think the reporter should have covered that question in the interview if he/she intended to use that photo. But maybe it was wished that the reader would be unsympathetic to the fellow.

Fact is, if he knew he was doing an interview with somebody about not having enough money to live off, he shouldn't have given them an opportunity to show him smoking as it was obvious that it would cause many people to see him as asinine because of it.

 

[JDgreen227]

Fact is, if he knew he was doing an interview with somebody about not having enough money to live off, he shouldn't have given them an opportunity to show him smoking as it was obvious that it would cause many people to see him as asinine because of it.

"Asinine...." I cannot recall the last time I read that word in print...stop trying to impress us with fancy language....

 

[Combustix]

How many has he prevented from being laid off? How many companies would have gone bankrupt if they hadn't stepped in (hint: start with Staples and Dominoes)? Look at both sides of the equation you must.

Aaron Z

I would like the see the ratio of jobs created to jobs lost by Romney that would be a telling statistic.

For all those that say dominoes and staples are jobs created. Yes entry level minimum wage jobs. How long will you be able to hold onto your house and feed your family on $8 an hour Thanks mitt for the wonderful job. As he offshored the family waged jobs.

 

[EE_Bota]

Fact is, if he knew he was doing an interview with somebody about not having enough money to live off, he shouldn't have given them an opportunity to show him smoking as it was obvious that it would cause many people to see him as asinine because of it.

"Fact is, if" doesn't sound like the start of an exposition of actual facts at all.
Perhaps the man thinks enjoying something is part of living.

 

[JDgreen227]

"Fact is, if" doesn't sound like the start of an exposition of actual facts at all.
Perhaps the man thinks enjoying something is part of living.

Sucking down hot acrid smoke laden with cancer producing chemicals and paying megabux for that dubious "enjoyment" is part of living? SPARE ME !!!