All I needed was Michael Moore to sway me

Niehther party is anti-poor. Both parties have different ideas of what helps the poor.

Republicans belive the best way to help the poor is to improve the economy as a whole, creating more opportunities to lift them up out of poverty through work or investment and creating a higher average standard of living. Of course, in this model some don't or can't take the opportunities. Also, you have to work your way up (i.e. there's a few years doing minimum wage crap work, after you've shown you're a reliable employee you get a slightly better job at an office, ect.) This model expects people to grow.

Democrats belive they help the poor by handing out favors (welfare and artificially inflated starting wages, that you're not expected to grow out of) this model may lift the very bottom up a little, but drags the average down. It also doesn't expect people to grow, but expects them to stagnate.

That was a very good explanation! Now for me, I'd rather not stagnate. And sometimes people need to help themselves, but for those who can't...there are many solutions. I find it funny that politics seem to think that it's one way or the other, when there are even more possibilities than just those two.

anyone with an IQ over 40 or just any plane and simple sense of decency hates and is embarrassed by that low class whining cry baby.

Oh , boy , another CNN viewer .