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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.
Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.
"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side.
"I need your help," Obama said.
The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he's to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday's speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.
He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," he said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way."
But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.
"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."
Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.
Obama said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they're open to some of the tax measures -- but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business.
But at times, Obama also sounded like he was discussing his own embattled tenure.
"The future rewards those who press on," He said. "I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
Caucus leaders remain fiercely protective of the nation's first African-American president, but in recent weeks they've been increasingly vocal in their discontent -- especially over black joblessness.
"If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers.
Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members were dismayed by Obama's concessions to the GOP during the summer's talks on raising the government's borrowing limit.
Cleaver famously called the compromise deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich."
But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because "nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."
Still, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., caused a stir last month by complaining that Obama's Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is "supportive of the president, but we're getting tired."
Last year, Obama addressed the same dinner and implored blacks to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock."
What followed was a Democratic rout that Obama acknowledged as a "shellacking."
Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, there was a sharp drop-off two years later.
Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate at between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and it's worth noting off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters.
This year's caucus speech came as Obama began cranking up grass-roots efforts across the Democratic spectrum.
It also fell on the eve of a trip to the West Coast that will combine salesmanship for the jobs plan he sent to Congress this month and re-election fundraising.
Obama was leaving Sunday morning for Seattle, where two money receptions were planned, with two more to follow in the San Francisco area.
On Monday, Obama is holding a town meeting at the California headquarters of LinkedIn, the business networking website, before going on to fundraisers in San Diego and Los Angeles and a visit Tuesday to a Denver-area high school to highlight the school renovation component of the jobs package.
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Online:
Congressional Black Caucus: http://thecongressionalblackcaucus.com/
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: http://cbcfinc.org
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He really is a disgusting piece of trash. Shameless.
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Translation:
"My friends, you're all basically morons who can't read beyond a 3rd grade level and in the end, most of you idiots will eat up whatever mindless reasoning we throw out there so you can blame someone else for your problems. With that in mind, shut the fuck up and vote for me because my father was a black alcoholic who killed a man. Voting for the alternative means you're an Uncle Tom who wants to lynch grandma. I know this is true because I heard from a friend of a friend that overheard someone in the Tea Party say such a thing. Don't think, just beg, and by 2012 ALL of you will be even more poor and pathetic--(but with more food stamps)."
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Just saw the video of this. Embarrassing.
Also notice the fake southern accent?
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Obama 2012 campaign’s Operation Vote focuses on ethnic minorities, core liberals
By Peter Wallsten, Published: September 24
President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.
The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition that helped elect the country’s first black president.
Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.
Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.
The campaign this month hired a longtime Jewish political activist as a point person for that community, the first of many such hirings to come this fall as staffers are brought on from each of the target groups.
The move comes as Obama has endured criticism from many liberal activists who charge that he has ceded too much ground in budget battles with Republicans. In recent days, the president has sharpened his partisan tone in public remarks on jobs and the economy, a change that has drawn praise from Democrats worried that flagging enthusiasm among core party voters could hurt Obama’s reelection chances.
And it is complemented by changes at the White House, including the impending hiring of a new Jewish community liaison and the recent promotion of another aide tasked with forging closer ties to black lawmakers, who have accused Obama of shying away from boosting troubled African American communities out of fear of alienating white voters.
“He was an exciting candidate, a fresh face,” said Rep. Steven R. Rothman (D-N.J.), one of Obama’s earliest 2008 backers. “And now he is an experienced president with a lot of maturity and more successes than failures legislatively, but in a divided government [there is] some inevitable disappointment.”
“I don’t agree that the specialness of his candidacy will be absent from this election,” Rothman added. But “the world has changed. The American economy has changed.”
A different campaign
The tactical shift from 2008 is a matter of “survival of the most adaptable,” said longtime Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who is advising an independent, pro-Democratic group called Priorities USA.
“They did everything right in 2008, but that doesn’t mean they should do everything the way they did it in 2008,” Begala said. “It’s completely changed circumstances. You can’t be as untraditional as they were in 2008 when you’re the president. He’s the man now.”
Campaign officials say the program has been in the works from the earliest planning stages and that it was always their intention to maximize support from key voter groups. The difference now, they say, is that unlike in the frenetic primary contest and short general election campaign of 2008, Obama and his team have the luxury of time to establish a more expansive strategy, with 14 months still to go before the election.
The campaign officials say they have not given up on wooing independents, and the 2012 presidential election will certainly involve a fierce fight for the college-educated whites and suburbanites who were more likely to back Obama in 2008 than the working-class whites who have always been more skeptical.
“What will matter most to Americans of all backgrounds boils down to this: the President is fighting every day to provide economic security for the middle class and to make the economy more fair, while the Republicans want to double down on policies that led to the challenges we face,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail.
Exit polls showed that Obama won 43 percent of the white vote in 2008 — in the typical range for a Democrat — but Gallup shows that his approval rating among whites now stands at less than a third.
Ultimately, the Obama strategy for reaching independents will depend largely on whom the GOP nominates; polls suggest a variation in how the different Republican candidates might perform with that group.
Still, the formula for Obama comes down to this: convincing enough additional minorities and core liberals to turn out and vote next year to make up for a loss of support from centrist and conservative whites.
The focus on key ethnic and liberal groups is far more robust this time, aides say, as the campaign scours battleground states where the election is likely to be decided on the margins.
“It’s more comprehensive” than four years ago, said a campaign official, speaking anonymously to discuss internal strategy. As an illustration, the official pointed to a state with heavy concentrations of blacks and Hispanics. “How do we look at Florida and look at the makeup of that state and get to 50 percent plus one?”
Obama’s approval ratings
Recent surveys showing the president’s approval rating in the 40s outline the challenge for the campaign. Even among minorities and other core Democrats, Obama has work to do.
A Washington Post-ABC poll published last week showed that while African Americans continue to view the president favorably in overwhelming numbers, the proportion of blacks expressing strongly positive views of Obama has dropped 25 points since mid-April — from 83 percent to 58 percent. His “favorable” rating has slipped below 50 percent among those age 18 to 29. And among all liberal Democrats, that number has dropped from 69 percent in April to 52 percent.
The minority share of the overall electorate is expected to rise — it was slightly more than a quarter in 2008 — giving Obama a head start.
Gallup, meanwhile, has found that Obama’s approval rating has dropped among Jews, as well — a point driven home this month when Republicans scored a surprise special-election victory in a heavily Jewish New York City House district long held by Democrats.
Some in the party worried that Jews were responding to Obama’s Israeli-Palestinian policy and a May speech in which he called for a return to 1967 borders “with mutually agreed swaps” — a position that drew a rebuke from Israel’s government. Others argued that the New York defeat had more to do with the economy.
Then last week, as the Obama administration tried to fend off a move by the Palestinian Authority to win a U.N. vote on statehood, Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney accused Obama of failing to fully support Israel.
Days earlier, the Obama campaign tapped Ira Forman, 59, longtime executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, as its Jewish-community point person for the Operation Vote program.
The campaign also launched a Web page for Jewish voters to promote Obama’s record on Israel. One recent post by strategist David Axelrod, titled “What Barak Said About Barack,” quotes Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak complimenting the U.S. president on his support for the Jewish state.
A women’s page features a photo gallery of high-level female administration officials under the headline “Barack Obama’s Strong Leaders,” including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Web pages for other Operation Vote target groups are forthcoming, and the campaign expects to announce a raft of additional staffers to be hired in the coming weeks to spearhead the efforts for each group.
Obama has stepped up his outreach to core supporters, as well. After months of criticism from black lawmakers that the president seemed reluctant to directly address the needs of struggling African Americans or even discuss the 16 percent jobless rate in that community, the president this month popped into a White House gathering where African American bloggers had been invited in to discuss the issue with senior aides.
Congressional Black Caucus officials say they are suddenly being showered with attention from the White House — even receiving a fact sheet after the president’s recent jobs speech calling the black unemployment rate “unacceptably high” and listing “targeted” help in the jobs plan, such as aid that would help 1.4 million African American families.
Addressing the caucus’s annual dinner Saturday night, Obama reeled off more statistics showing how he said his jobs bill would help millions of black Americans. He lamented the community’s steep economic troubles, telling cheering audience members that he needs their help, despite any discouragement they have felt.
“I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain,” he said. “I am going to press on. I expect all of you to march with me. . . . Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on.”
Likewise, amid criticism from immigration activists that Obama has pursued an overly aggressive deportation policy, White House aides and administration officials are meeting across the country with local Hispanic leaders to make a case that his economic policies are helping their communities.
Former congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), a Jewish outreach adviser to the Obama campaign, described the White House strategy as “proactive engagement with the base to explain the president’s record, not only why they should be pleased but should be excited and activated.”
“It is somewhat traditional politics,” Wexler added. “On the other hand, I think there’s a realization that the president’s opponents play hardball. And this is a manifestation of the president and his campaign’s decision to play hardball back. And, quite frankly, many of the president’s supporters are happy to see it.”
Polling director Jon Cohen contributed to this report.
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The campaign also launched a Web page for Jewish voters to promote Obama’s record on Israel. One recent post by strategist David Axelrod, titled “What Barak Said About Barack,” quotes Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak complimenting the U.S. president on his support for the Jewish state.
Nice potus we have there. Ridiculous.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.
Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.
"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
suprised blackass/andre/vince hasnt been in here to call this racist ;D ;D ;D
LMFAO at the southern draw he tried to pull off
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My dad called me up after he heard this and said it felt like the 60's all over again.
Again - blackened, vince, straw, andre, chimps, tbombz, whoever plans on voting for this piece of garbage - FUCK YOU!
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BUMP FOR BLACKEN FOR TEAM BLACK PANTHER
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Translation:
"My friends, you're all basically morons who can't read beyond a 3rd grade level and in the end, most of you idiots will eat up whatever mindless reasoning we throw out there so you can blame someone else for your problems. With that in mind, shut the fuck up and vote for me because my father was a black alcoholic who killed a man. Voting for the alternative means you're an Uncle Tom who wants to lynch grandma. I know this is true because I heard from a friend of a friend that overheard someone in the Tea Party say such a thing. Don't think, just beg, and by 2012 ALL of you will be even more poor and pathetic--(but with more food stamps)."
yeesh......
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yeesh......
Andre - do you know anyone who wears bedroom slippers?
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My dad called me up after he heard this and said it felt like the 60's all over again.
Again - blackened, vince, straw, andre, chimps, tbombz, whoever plans on voting for this piece of garbage - FUCK YOU!
well now we know where you get your crazy views from
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Andre - do you know anyone who wears bedroom slippers?
yes I do...YOU..since you have no job and sit in your bedroom in your slippers posting all day long
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yes I do...YOU..since you have no job and sit in your bedroom in your slippers posting all day long
Andre - after you get the email from obama where the march is going to happen for jobs - can you let me know?
I want to go to laugh at him and you for this nonsense. WTF is marching going to do for obama? He is a joke. If he was doing his job properly - there would be no need to rile up blacks like he is.
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Andre - after you get the email from obama where the march is going to happen for jobs - can you let me know?
I want to go to laugh at him and you for this nonsense. WTF is marching going to do for obama? He is a joke. If he was doing his job properly - there would be no need to rile up blacks like he is.
unfortunately only an idiot like you would take him literally....there is not going to be a march...but I wish we could organize one outside your house
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unfortunately only an idiot like you would take him literally....there is not going to be a march...but I wish we could organize one outside your house
I wish you would, you know where I am. And bring the bunny slippers.
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I wish you would, you know where I am. And bring the bunny slippers.
you'd be hiding under the bed with shit in your underwear ;)
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It seems like he just reads speeches off the teleprompters. Maybe being able to see the teleprompters distracts me but I wonder if he even pays attention to what he is saying.
I have had to give some speeches that I wrote myself and I seem to have a type of amnesia re: giving the speech after I'm done....maybe because I hate it so much..I don't know.
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It seems like he just reads speeches off the teleprompters. Maybe being able to see the teleprompters distracts me but I wonder if he even pays attention to what he is saying.
I have had to give some speeches that I wrote myself and I seem to have a type of amnesia re: giving the speech after I'm done....maybe because I hate it so much..I don't know.
Makes you wonder who wrote that bs for him. Truly horryging and sad how he keeps playing blacks for fools.
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It seems like he just reads speeches off the teleprompters. Maybe being able to see the teleprompters distracts me but I wonder if he even pays attention to what he is saying.
I have had to give some speeches that I wrote myself and I seem to have a type of amnesia re: giving the speech after I'm done....maybe because I hate it so much..I don't know.
That's all he does. There is a huge difference between him giving a speech and answering questions at a press conference or a one-on-one interview. He actually doesn't perform very well in debates and doesn't think well on his feet IMO.
Perry appears to be the same way: gives a great speech, but not good in debates.
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That's all he does. There is a huge difference between him giving a speech and answering questions at a press conference or a one-on-one interview. He actually doesn't perform very well in debates and doesn't think well on his feet IMO.
Perry appears to be the same way: gives a great speech, but not good in debates.
Where is the march of the bunny slippers going to occur? I might get my tailgating gear out for that to laugh at these morons following obama off the cliff.
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I'm sorry but I'm going to have to report everyone in this thread to
"ATTAAAAAAAACKKWAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAATTTCH" >:(
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I'm sorry but I'm going to have to report everyone in this thread to
"ATTAAAAAAAACKKWAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAATTTCH" >:(
I'm going to self report on this since I am mocking obama's failed attempt to rile up desperate blacks to get out of their bunny slippers and in to the streets to march for jobs.
Btw - how many employers do you think will hire people marching across their storefronts with obama 2012 gear on?
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I'm sorry but I'm going to have to report everyone in this thread to
"ATTAAAAAAAACKKWAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAATTTCH" >:(
lol
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I'm going to self report on this since I am mocking obama's failed attempt to rile up desperate blacks to get out of their bunny slippers and in to the streets to march for jobs.
Btw - how many employers do you think will hire people marching across their storefronts with obama 2012 gear on?
If he really wants people to physically march, I'm not sure how that would benefit them. Especially, as you indicate it could be detrimental.
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Sure.....support the very same political party that is desperately trying to legalize millions of unskilled, uneducated illegal Central Americans so your own political clout and representation wanes to unimportance.
Sure.....support the very same political party that's been in power for all of these years that has only seen an increased number of blacks in US prisons and jails swell to record numbers.....and many more blacks that are or were locked up in the criminal justice system that are unable to attain gainful employment due to a criminal record.
Sure......support the very same political party(entity) that strives to grant you affirmative action, racial quotas, preferential treatment, and a much higher percentage of those who receive government handouts, free housing, EBT, free utility payments, free cell phones, and free transportation....which has gotten you NOWHERE................t hose who receive these things are nothing more than slaves within their own ghetto plantation.
Sure......support a political party that heavily supports an organization such as Planned Parenthood that is responsible for more black abortions than anywhere else.
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I wonder if Obama will be re-elected...
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Sure.....support the very same political party that is desperately trying to legalize millions of unskilled, uneducated illegal Central Americans so your own political clout and representation wanes to unimportance.
Sure.....support the very same political party that's been in power for all of these years that has only seen an increased number of blacks in US prisons and jails swell to record numbers.....and many more blacks that are or were locked up in the criminal justice system that are unable to attain gainful employment due to a criminal record.
Sure......support the very same political party(entity) that strives to grant you affirmative action, racial quotas, preferential treatment, and a much higher percentage of those who receive government handouts, free housing, EBT, free utility payments, free cell phones, and free transportation....which has gotten you NOWHERE................t hose who receive these things are nothing more than slaves within their own ghetto plantation.
Sure......support a political party that heavily supports an organization such as Planned Parenthood that is responsible for more black abortions than anywhere else.
some good points here
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I wonder if Obama will be re-elected...
Abso-freakin'-lutely. Unless national security suddenly becomes an issue at the forefront or our economy completely collapses. The Mormons won't get elected because......they're Mormons. Michelle Bachmann is viewed as certifiably crazy and will not get the nod. If Herman Cain suddenly becomes a frontrunner(as evidenced by the recent Florida straw poll), the media will viciously attack the conservative black Godfather's Pizza CEO.......remember, the Left is as racist and vile as anything since the Jim Crow days....if you play in the other political aisle, of course. Rick Santorum has a google problem.....his last name is synonomis with the fluids excreted after a bout of anal sex. Rick Perry will just be lumped in with the Great Satan, George Dubya Bush....he is nothing more than a younger, better looking John McCain with a Democratic past.
And Ron Paul.....he's old....and ignored, no matter how many polls he can win.
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Sure.....support the very same political party that is desperately trying to legalize millions of unskilled, uneducated illegal Central Americans so your own political clout and representation wanes to unimportance.
Sure.....support the very same political party that's been in power for all of these years that has only seen an increased number of blacks in US prisons and jails swell to record numbers.....and many more blacks that are or were locked up in the criminal justice system that are unable to attain gainful employment due to a criminal record.
Sure......support the very same political party(entity) that strives to grant you affirmative action, racial quotas, preferential treatment, and a much higher percentage of those who receive government handouts, free housing, EBT, free utility payments, free cell phones, and free transportation....which has gotten you NOWHERE................t hose who receive these things are nothing more than slaves within their own ghetto plantation.
Sure......support a political party that heavily supports an organization such as Planned Parenthood that is responsible for more black abortions than anywhere else.
I know of no such party my friend..you are exaggerating
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Barack Blames Blacks, Bush, Banks, Budget, You
Townhall.com ^ | September 26, 2011 | John Ransom
Barack Obama continued his stirring “It’s All Your Fault” campaign tour this week scolding crowds in New York, Ohio, Washington, DC and people on the West Bank and in Israel for not doing their jobs.
It seems that citizens around the world are screwing up what otherwise would have been a fun-filled four years of taxpayers’ subsidized vacations for Barry and Michelle. And Obama is hoping that will change.
“f you love me, you've got to help me pass this bill," said Obama two weeks ago as he kicked off the desperation reelection tour. He was scolding a crowd in North Carolina about doing a homework assignment for him involving lobbying for his new tax increase.
He needs all the help he can get. He’s been down this road before and it’s not worked out so well.
Congress stopped listening to him last November as he led the Democrats to electoral defeat during the “It’s All the Tea Party’s Fault” inaugural tour
The fallout was Obama’s last budget proposal, which included similar schemes as this new tax increase he’s proposing. That budget got zero votes in the Senate.
Good job slackers.
Think of that; not one Senate Democrat voted his budget. The SETI Institute has been re-tasked to search for votes from any life form in the known universe for this new tax increase.
Waiting; waiting; waiting…
Don’t you feel ashamed now that you didn’t help Obama pass his budget? It was only the single most important document that a president creates every year. Thanks a lot.
Not. One. Vote. How dare you?
Well according to CBSNews, he’s not letting people off as easily this time around. He’s not going to let you slackers idly worship him as the single greatest president in the history of MSNBC without you showing some elbow grease for his efforts.
"For those of you who did skip class today, I've got a homework assignment for you," continued Obama, "tell your Congress person that the time for gridlock and games is over; the time for action is now…. You can write a letter. When was the last time you did that?"
Very innovative strategy from the Obama administration: getting sixth-graders to write lobbying letters to Congress. “Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet? Did you pass it yet?” They might get one vote from an annoyed John McCain.
My guess is that most people have written more letters in the last three years than Obama has passed budgets. Good going Citizens of America. Way to make our president look bad by writing both of those letters.
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” Obama demanded of the Congressional Black Caucus over the weekend. The Caucus has been restless, pointing out that blacks are a lot worse off under Obama’s presidency than they were under Bush.
Bunch of ingrates. Don’t they know he’s the greatest Nobel prize winner of all time, trumping Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat in HuffPo mentions? Combined.
What do people expect? Jobs?
“Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’,” Obama continued. “We are going to press on. We have work to do.”
Obama’s preferred working/marching shoes are size 11.5 D golf spikes. No bedroom slippers for him.
And there’s one thing that a man gets a lot of time for when he's being driven from hole to hole by Secret Service agents while playing golf on Martha’s Vineyard.
That man has time to think.
And that time leads one to an inescapable conclusion:
Newsweek could feature President Cain’s image on the January 2013 Inauguration issue under the title: “We’re All Racists Now.”
And it’s all your fault.
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LMFAO!!!!
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Source: The Hill
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Monday complained that President Obama had unfairly singled out the African-American community and characterized them as complainers over the weekend.
"Despite the fact that he's appointed Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, he has an office for excellence in Hispanic education right in the White House, still pushing him," she said. "He certainly didn't tell them to stop complaining, and he would never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on Don't Ask Don't Tell. Even in a speech to AIPAC , he would never say to the Jewish community to stop complaining about Israel."
Obama, speaking at a Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday, called on his African-American supporters to "stop complaining" and begin fighting.
"Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying," he said, asking the crowd to "march with me and press on."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/183815...
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Obama's 'stop grumbling' speech prompts some grumbling (Just shut up CBC and lick Obama's shoes)
msnbc ^ | 9/26/2011 | Michael O'Brien
Posted on Monday, September 26, 2011 5:50:09 PM by tobyhill
President Obama's fiery speech to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation's dinner on Saturday evening drew a stiff rebuke Monday from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who questioned whether it was warranted for the president to tell black voters to "stop grumbling" and "put on your marching shoes."
"Some of his words were not, I think, appropriate and surprised me a little bit," Waters said Monday morning on CBS. "I was curious about it."
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
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Obama's 'stop grumbling' speech prompts some grumbling (Just shut up CBC and lick Obama's shoes)
msnbc ^ | 9/26/2011 | Michael O'Brien
Posted on Monday, September 26, 2011 5:50:09 PM by tobyhill
President Obama's fiery speech to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation's dinner on Saturday evening drew a stiff rebuke Monday from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who questioned whether it was warranted for the president to tell black voters to "stop grumbling" and "put on your marching shoes."
"Some of his words were not, I think, appropriate and surprised me a little bit," Waters said Monday morning on CBS. "I was curious about it."
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
::) Right. She's going to vote for him, so she should just shut up and take her lickins.
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POTUS testy in BET interview
Politico44 ^ | 09/26/11 | JULIE MASON
Posted on September 26, 2011 10:34:16 PM EDT by ColdOne
Miller asked Obama to consider the plight of a hypothetical young, African-American in Chicago's South Side: Father gone, mother working 10 hours a day for "peanuts," there are no jobs and, "You won't even say, 'Look, I am going to help you,'" Miller said.
"Emmett, that is not -- first of all, that is not what people are saying," Obama said, bristling. "What people are saying all across the country is we are hurting and we've been hurting for a long time. And the question is how can we make sure the economy is working for every single person."
Obama added, "The other thing I want to make sure you don't just kind of slip in there is this notion that African-American leaders of late have been critical. There have been a handful of African-Americans who have been critical. They were critical when I was running for president. There's always going to be somebody who is critical of the president of the United States."
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Lmfao!!!! What a moron.
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POTUS testy in BET interview
Politico44 ^ | 09/26/11 | JULIE MASON
Posted on September 26, 2011 10:34:16 PM EDT by ColdOne
Miller asked Obama to consider the plight of a hypothetical young, African-American in Chicago's South Side: Father gone, mother working 10 hours a day for "peanuts," there are no jobs and, "You won't even say, 'Look, I am going to help you,'" Miller said.
"Emmett, that is not -- first of all, that is not what people are saying," Obama said, bristling. "What people are saying all across the country is we are hurting and we've been hurting for a long time. And the question is how can we make sure the economy is working for every single person."
Obama added, "The other thing I want to make sure you don't just kind of slip in there is this notion that African-American leaders of late have been critical. There have been a handful of African-Americans who have been critical. They were critical when I was running for president. There's always going to be somebody who is critical of the president of the United States."
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Lmfao!!!! What a moron.
This is more than a hypothetical.....this is reality. Black males are being sent to prison or hanging out at the 24 Hour convenience store at 3 in the morning while the women are raising children who will never know their fathers(and sometimes, the women don't either).
I'm in the end process of opening my home to foster children.....bet you can guess what the majority of the racial composition of those children...Black! This is the core problem plaguing Blacks today.....broken families, scattered children, no father presence.
Begging the president for help isn't going to help.
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For those looking for a response to Obama's whine:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/26/rush_limbaughs_official_obama_criticizer_responds_to_obama.html
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For those looking for a response to Obama's whine:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/26/rush_limbaughs_official_obama_criticizer_responds_to_obama.html
He is right - imagine Obama going to a Jew group and telling them to stop crying and complaining about his stance on Israel?
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He is right - imagine Obama going to a Jew group and telling them to stop crying and complaining about his stance on Israel?
Eh...kinda not a very good comparison...I'd say a huge swathe of Jews here in the US could give a flying fuck what Israel does or doesn't do....just because someone is a Jew does not mean they get the same "marching orders."........you know, like Blacks do. :D
Around 80% of Jews tend to be very liberal, vote Democratic, and not very hawkish when it comes to foreign policy. It is the hardliner Israeli lobbies led by AIPAC and to not much of a lesser extent their Evangelical backers that dictates influences Middle Eastern foreign policy. Any politician that opposes these stances is than deemed an anti-Semite, despite that he did not spout off about hatred of Semitic peoples and that most Jews oppose what AIPAC tries to push.
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what's up with the title of this thread?
btw - it's hilarious that the right wing is taking a few minutes of his speech (ignoring what immediately preceded it) and then projecting their own blatant racism (for an example refer to the title of this thread)
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what's up with the title of this thread?
btw - it's hilarious that the right wing is taking a few minutes of his speech (ignoring what immediately preceded it) and then projecting their own blatant racism (for an example refer to the title of this thread)
The title of this thread reflects how obama and other white liberal pieces of trash treats blacks.
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Scolding His Supporters is Sign of Obama's Desperation
Townhall.com ^ | September 28, 2011 | Donald Lambro
WASHINGTON -- A rattled tone of desperation has taken hold of President Obama's once self-confident rhetoric as he struggles to rally his party's dispirited political base.
With the Gallup daily tracking poll showing his job approval score falling to 39 percent over the weekend, Obama shocked Congressional Black Caucus Democrats at a dinner Saturday with an intemperate scolding for daring to criticize his mishandling of the economy.
"I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain," he told the assembled black leaders. "I am going to press on. I expect all of you to march with me. ... Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying."
It was a stunning display of a deeply frustrated president coming unglued, an outburst that the national news media went to great lengths to hide in their news reports Sunday. Incredibly, The Washington Post buried Obama's petulant, insensitive remarks in the 32nd graph of of its story.
No sector of the electorate has suffered more from his failed, jobless policies than black Americans, whose bleak unemployment levels are now at nearly 17 percent, and more than 20 percent when part-time workers are added to the equation.
He can no longer blame George W. Bush. When Obama took office in January 2009, black unemployment was 11.5 percent. The worsening economic plight of the black community has eroded his support among what once was his most loyal constituency.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll last week found "the proportion of blacks expressing strongly positive views of Obama has dropped 25 points since mid-April -- from 83 percent to 58 percent. His "favorable" score plunged below 50 percent among younger blacks between the ages of 18 to 29.
Fiery Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the first black leader in Congress to openly criticize Obama's record on job creation, has been pleading with black congressional leaders to break their political silence over the president's impotent economic policies. "I felt we had to stop shoving it under the rug," she said at a CBC jobs fair in Detroit last week.
The central complaint among black leaders has been that he hasn't directly addressed high black unemployment over the course of his presidency. There's been a growing feeling among disappointed black voters that Obama took them for granted, believing they would always be there for him, no matter how much they have suffered from his inept unemployment policies.
His imperious order that "I expect all of you to march with me," no matter what the circumstances, was an insult to the dignity of his black supporters -- treating them like they were children. Do as I say and do it now!
This was the same imperious tone that he used in his recent address to a joint session of Congress on his latest $447 billion jobs plan, virtually ordering lawmakers to pass his jobs bill "immediately."
Such is the naivete of a former freshman senator who spent little time, if any, learning the political complexities of the legislative process before he threw himself completely into a national book-promotion speaking tour that grew into a presidential campaign.
Does Obama really think scolding is a form of presidential leadership? That you can order Congress to pass a nearly half-trillion-dollar jobs bill, even after his first $800 billion jobs plan turned out to be a costly failure?
This week he was on a frenzied, fence-mending tour to re-energize his deflated liberal base, attacking Republicans -- with a straight face -- for playing politics with the nation's economy.
That means playing the political class warfare game to the hilt by peddling the Democrats' favorite myth -- that millionaires and billionaires are taxed at a lower rate than nurses, teachers, secretaries, even janitors. It's a preposterous claim with no basis in fact, but these are desperate times that call for desperate politics.
In fact, if you ask the IRS if this is true, it will tell you that people with adjusted gross incomes of more than $1 million paid an average of 23.3 percent in income taxes in 2008, while those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 paid 8.9 percent. Half of all taxpayers paid no federal income taxes.
Wealthier people like billionaire Warren Buffett may pay a lower tax rate on personal income than others in lower income brackets because much of it comes from dividends and capital gains, which are taxed at 15 percent. But many ordinary Americans who are by no means rich, particularly retirees, also pay the same rate from stocks they bought over a lifetime of work.
However, Obama's tax collectors wouldn't go after just wealthy Americans, but also every small-business employer who makes more than $200,000 a year. These are the job creators of our economy. Raise taxes on them, and we will get even fewer jobs than we're getting now.
Obama says his soak the rich proposals are all about fairness and math, but the Congressional Budget Office says the wealthiest 10 percent of income earners pay more than half of all federal income taxes.
The American people aren't fooled by Obama's new math. When Gallup asked voters last week to compare Obama's job performance with George W. Bush's, 34 percent said he was worse than Bush, and 22 percent said there was no difference between the two.
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Did I read that correctly?
Younger black people have his favorable rating below 50%?
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The title of this thread reflects how obama and other white liberal pieces of trash treats blacks.
you wrote the title of this thread and Obama didn't say the phrase "get in line N____R"
that perception and then thread title came from you
own your words
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If he really wants people to physically march, I'm not sure how that would benefit them. Especially, as you indicate it could be detrimental.
Have you seen the blacks that work in city and state government, or the ones on welfare?
Jogging would be of much greater benefit than marching, but then Obama would inadvertently kill two thirds of his base.
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you wrote the title of this thread and Obama didn't say the phrase "get in line N____R"
that perception and then thread title came from you
own your words
I have. That's the message Obama is sending to black people. get in line and STFU and vote for me.
He is a piece of garbage.
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Have you seen the blacks that work in city and state government, or the ones on welfare?
Jogging would be of much greater benefit than marching, but then Obama would inadvertently kill two thirds of his base.
oh brother..obsessing on the black cock again
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I have. That's the message Obama is sending to black people. get in line and STFU and vote for me.
He is a piece of garbage.
it never surprises me what comes out of that delusional mind...amazing
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it never surprises me what comes out of that delusional mind...amazing
Even Maxine Waters said what obama said is disgusting and dishonest.
I use the phrase 95ers for a reason, politically, 95% of blacks are sheep and refuse to think for themselves and have completely disenfranchised themselves by voting lock step for left wing socialists and communists.
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Even Maxine Waters said what obama said is disgusting and dishonest.
I use the phrase 95ers for a reason, politically, 95% of blacks are sheep and refuse to think for themselves and have completely disenfranchised themselves by voting lock step for left wing socialists and communists.
you can say the same thing about Jews...including your girlfriend ;)
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Even Maxine Waters said what obama said is disgusting and dishonest.
I use the phrase 95ers for a reason, politically, 95% of blacks are sheep and refuse to think for themselves and have completely disenfranchised themselves by voting lock step for left wing socialists and communists.
link to where she said disgusting and dishonest,or are you making shit up again
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link to where she said disgusting and dishonest,or are you making shit up again
Those were my words but you can read through the comments. She basically said - why wont obama go make that same speech to latinos, jews, or whites.
Get a clue moron - Obama and the Communist Demos treat blacks like farm cattle.
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Those were my words but you can read through the comments. She basically said - why wont obama go make that same speech to latinos, jews, or whites.
Get a clue moron - Obama and the Communist Demos treat blacks like farm cattle.
oh boo hoo..you care so much don't you?
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This is what i am talking about how Obama admn treats blacks like farm cattle
Valerie Jarret is pandering to blacks in a way that would make karl marx blush.
95ers need to get their heads checked.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-senior-advisor-valerie-jarrett-to-african-americans-the-point-of-government-is-to-give-people-a-livelihood-so-they-can-provide-for-their-families
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This is what i am talking about how Obama admn treats blacks like farm cattle
Valerie Jarret is pandering to blacks in a way that would make karl marx blush.
95ers need to get their heads checked.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-senior-advisor-valerie-jarrett-to-african-americans-the-point-of-government-is-to-give-people-a-livelihood-so-they-can-provide-for-their-families
i can think of someone else :D
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i can think of someone else :D
Yeah - the dope you voted for.
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Obama dismisses claims of racial slur on ‘slippers’ - Not stereotyping, White House says
Washington Times ^ | 9/30/11 | Dave Boyer
Posted on September 30, 2011 9:53:09 PM EDT by Libloather
Obama dismisses claims of racial slur on ‘slippers’
Not stereotyping, White House says
By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Facing an uproar from President Obama’s most loyal base of supporters, the White House on Thursday rejected claims that Mr. Obama stereotyped blacks when he told them to “take off your bedroom slippers” and work for his re-election.
“I have heard him make similar comments to all sorts of different groups,” said presidential press secretary Jay Carney, who fielded nearly a dozen questions from the White House press corps about Mr. Obama’s comments and his relationship with black supporters. “He’s certainly used vivid language, similarly vivid language, before a variety of audiences.”
But a search of Mr. Obama’s speeches dating back to mid-May shows that he has used the quip about bedroom slippers only one other time — on Sept. 14 at North Carolina State University, while promoting his jobs bill. About 8 percent of students at N.C. State are black.
The president stirred up the issue when he urged the predominantly black audience at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation awards dinner in Washington on Saturday to stop criticizing him and get to work on his re-election.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Wonder if Benny, andre , blacken, 240, straw have the pink bunny slippers or the generic type?
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Even Maxine Waters said what obama said is disgusting and dishonest.
I use the phrase 95ers for a reason, politically, 95% of blacks are sheep and refuse to think for themselves and have completely disenfranchised themselves by voting lock step for left wing socialists and communists.
she did
that pretty harsh language
do you have a link with the quote from Water where she said "what Obama said is disgusting and dishonest"
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she did
that pretty harsh language
do you have a link with the quote from Water where she said "what Obama said is disgusting and dishonest"
Bot in those terms but she said obama would never dare talk to anyone like he did in that speech other than blacks.
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Bot in those terms but she said obama would never dare talk to anyone like he did in that speech other than blacks.
not in those terms?
so that was your rephrasing of what she said ......kind of like the Get in Line N___R!!!! from Obama
at least show us the source quote that you're so creatively paraphrasing
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not in those terms?
so that was your rephrasing of what she said ......kind of like the Get in Line N___R!!!! from Obama
at least show us the source quote that you're so creatively paraphrasing
as someone who claims to be informed, I thought you would have known of her response.
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as someone who claims to be informed, I thought you would have known of her response.
I don't claim to know everything said by everyone
I heard some responses
I'm sure if Waters had said what Obama said was "disgusting and dishonest" I would have heard about it somewhere
but then maybe not
this week has been a blur - end of month and end of quarter
post the link to the quote you paraphrased into "disgusting and dishonest"