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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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Congressional Black Caucus: http://thecongressionalblackcaucus.com/

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: http://cbcfinc.org

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 08:46:14 PM »
He really is a disgusting piece of trash.  Shameless. 

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2011, 09:35:15 PM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2011, 05:52:37 AM »
Just saw the video of this.     Embarrassing.  

Also notice the fake southern accent?   

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2011, 06:48:51 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2011, 07:19:09 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2011, 07:55:04 AM »

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2011, 09:12:47 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2011, 09:27:48 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2011, 09:44:35 AM »
BUMP FOR BLACKEN  FOR TEAM BLACK PANTHER

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2011, 09:54:35 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2011, 09:56:15 AM »
yeesh......

Andre - do you know anyone who wears bedroom slippers?

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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2011, 09:56:36 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2011, 09:57:37 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2011, 10:05:33 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2011, 10:07:34 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2011, 10:14:23 AM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". Really???
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2011, 12:46:39 PM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2011, 01:06:50 PM »


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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2011, 01:29:41 PM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2011, 01:59:41 PM »
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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Re: Obama to 95ers: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N\~{~\!!!!
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2011, 02:16:25 PM »
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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Re: Obama to Blacks: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N___R!!!!
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2011, 02:17:44 PM »
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to report everyone in this thread to

"ATTAAAAAAAACKKWAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAATTTCH"  >:(
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Re: Obama to Blacks: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N___R!!!!
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2011, 02:21:39 PM »
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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Re: Obama to Blacks: "stop cryin, complainin . . . ". - Get in Line N___R!!!!
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2011, 02:31:12 PM »
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to report everyone in this thread to

"ATTAAAAAAAACKKWAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAATTTCH"  >:(

lol