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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on December 23, 2009, 09:54:38 AM
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There have been growing rumblings among black liberals and pundits recently weeks that their first president has been inattentive to the community that supported him by more than 90 per cent.
Although the president’s polling numbers remain strong among the group, it is unlikely to continue with black people suffering disproportionately to others in the recession. Danny Glover, the activist film actor, told The Daily Beast website recently: “I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don’t see anything different.â€
John Conyers, the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee, told a newspaper that Mr Obama “was getting bad advice from clownsâ€, criticised him for the poor handling of the closure of Guantánamo Bay and for “bowing down†to the “nutty Right-wing†over health care reform.
Mr Obama hit back yesterday saying that: “This notion, somehow, that because there wasn’t a transformation overnight that we’ve been neglectful is just not accurate,â€
The Congressional Black Caucus, of which Mr Obama was part as a senator, has had a long-simmering feud with the White House. The 43-member group recently boycotted a procedural vote on financial regulatory reform as a warning that its support could not be counted on.
Barbara Waters, a representative from Los Angeles, said: “We can no longer choose not to speak about African Americans or the working class. I think that it is important for us to educate those people around [Obama].â€
Tavis Smiley, a TV and radio broadcaster, criticised the White House for “incrementalism†in its reform efforts, citing Martin Luther King’s warning against the “tranquillising drug of gradualismâ€.
The president’s performance was all about “jobs, jobs, jobs†he said. “It’s especially about jobs in black America, where we are triple the national average, in some places quadruple the national average of unemployment.â€
In a radio interview, the president stressed that there were limits to what he could do for any class of people. ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6868202/Barack-Obama-accused-of-not-doing-enough-for-black-people.html
As one of my favourite bloggers said: We got you in, now where's our cut? (http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2009/12/we-got-you-in-now-wheres-our-cut.html)
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Yet his support among blacks remains sky high. Could it be that they don't pay attention to politics once their ballot is cast?
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They ought to stop whining and just be thankful he isn't doing anything "For" them the way he is doing things "For" the rest of us.
:fuelfire:
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They ought to stop whining and just be thankful he isn't doing anything "For" them the way he is doing things "For" the rest of us.
:fuelfire:
No shit... I hear "we're from the government and we're here to help", these days, and I drop to the floor, huddled fetal position, making sure to leave my poor wallet where they can get to it without "helping" me any more than they have to.
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No shit... I hear "we're from the government and we're here to help", these days, and I drop to the floor, huddled fetal position, making sure to leave my poor wallet where they can get to it without "helping" me any more than they have to.
I hear that, and I make sure there's a round chambered.
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It's going to be interesting when those 90% realize that he's not going to help them, never had any intentions of helping them, and really could care less - meaning he's not losing any sleep over it.
Cause he's up in the "Big House" now... :afro: (sorry I just couldn't help myself) :(
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It's going to be interesting when those 90% realize that he's not going to help them, never had any intentions of helping them, and really could care less - meaning he's not losing any sleep over it.
Cause he's up in the "Big House" now... :afro: (sorry I just couldn't help myself) :(
Movin' on up
To da East Side,
Finally got a piece of da pie!
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You can`t "help" anyone,no matter what race or color they are when they have no respect for or pride in themselves or their community.
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Movin' on up
To da East Side,
Finally got a piece of da pie!
:exactly:
And...I'M NOT RACIST, I just can't stand to watch this man and his administration destroy our beloved America. I will even go as far to say, I'm painfully aware that past Presidents have played a bad roll also. BUT never have I seen this kind of "CHANGE" in America, that I've seen taking place in the last 11 loooong months.
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Movin' on up
To da East Side,
Finally got a piece of da pie!
I had made a video of President and Laura Bush greeting the 0Bamas at the curb and escorting them to the White House, with the Jeffersons theme song playing. :censored: youtube, myspace, and facebook all deleted the damn thing. Commie sympathizers, all of them.
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off topic, but did anyone else notice they identified conyers as the "Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee"? is the press going to have a knee-jerk reaction and label someone as Republican simply for criticizing 0bama?
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off topic, but did anyone else notice they identified conyers as the "Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee"? is the press going to have a knee-jerk reaction and label someone as Republican simply for criticizing 0bama?
Maybe Lord Ø ordered him evicted from The Party for his disloyalty. Turn in your little red book, your secret decoder ring, and see to it the secret handshake is changed to the next in sequence; the whole works.
Next thing you know, the Ministry of Troof an' Shit will be revising him out of all Big Brotha approved communications venues. Like he never existed.
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The problem with playing the victim card is that the "victims" get the gimme's, expect goodies ... now ... and don't know the word, "enough" ... or the word, "patience" ...
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off topic, but did anyone else notice they identified conyers as the "Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee"? is the press going to have a knee-jerk reaction and label someone as Republican simply for criticizing 0bama?
The Telegraph is British, maybe they just assume anyone in any sort of opposition to Professor Utopia is a Republican. Or maybe he switched parties this afternoon and it hasn't hit the news yet?
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You can`t "help" anyone,no matter what race or color they are when they have no respect for or pride in themselves or their community.
Spot friggen on.
What has the (so-called, as I don't believe in it) "black community" done to lift themselves up?
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What do they mean only 90%. Shit blacks have always voted 90+% for a democratic President.
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Spot friggen on.
What has the (so-called, as I don't believe in it) "black community" done to lift themselves up?
Ask for "help"....which in Ebonics translates to "A Handout".
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Gee. Who came into power in Congress at the beginning of 2007. Who has been in the WH since January 2009. These cold, hard facts won't change some people's minds though. They'll still vote for the same losers next election cycle. And they'll still be unemployed and beholden to the welfare state.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/ColonialMarine/Obamarama/Hope%20and%20change%20unemployment/untitled.jpg)
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Gee. Who came into power in Congress at the beginning of 2007. Who has been in the WH since January 2009. These cold, hard facts won't change some people's minds though. They'll still vote for the same losers next election cycle. And they'll still be unemployed and beholden to the welfare state.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/ColonialMarine/Obamarama/Hope%20and%20change%20unemployment/untitled.jpg)
Um, it seems they conveniently forget that little fact. Kind of like the famous Hillary quote or all the bombastic rhetoric about being the opposition party. Convenient memory / hypocrisy is simply a corollary to the maxim "DUmmies Lie"
They forget all about the causes of IndyMac, Freddy and Fanny.