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They loudly booed him when he said that he would overturn Obamacare but he's getting some applause for other things. Gotta give him props for doing what McCain and Palin would not.
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They loudly booed him when he said that he would overturn Obamacare but he's getting some applause for other things. Gotta give him props for doing what McCain and Palin would not.
Overturn it with WHAT?
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They loudly booed him when he said that he would overturn Obamacare but he's getting some applause for other things. Gotta give him props for doing what McCain and Palin would not.
Mittens has nothing to lose by giving a speech there.
And his speech of what i heard was very good, direct, and to the point.
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Overturn it with WHAT?
Romneycare.
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Overturn it with WHAT?
Let the states handle their own affairs and allow competition across state lines. The American people have stated, time and time again, that they don't want this garbage. Had the Dems actually listened, they might still have the House and a bigger edge in the Senate.
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Let the states handle their own affairs and allow competition across state lines. The American people have stated, time and time again, that they don't want this garbage. Had the Dems actually listened, they might still have the House and a bigger edge in the Senate.
Its incredible, they just can't fucking admit that people hate Obamacare! Despite losing almost every major election, despite losing in Mass, despite losing in N.J., despite the mid terms wipeout, despite everything, they double down on this nonsense.
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Let the states handle their own affairs and allow competition across state lines. The American people have stated, time and time again, that they don't want this garbage. Had the Dems actually listened, they might still have the House and a bigger edge in the Senate.
Have you asked the 30 million who is uninsured?
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Have you asked the 30 million who is uninsured?
What did 83% of them say? :D
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Have you asked the 30 million who is uninsured?
So because of 10% without insurance that is reason to nationalize an industry and up end the economy?
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Let the states handle their own affairs and allow competition across state lines.
except for when it comes to abortion, prayer in school, and gay marriage?
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except for when it comes to abortion, prayer in school, and gay marriage?
That's the gov'ts job brosephus.
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Romney to NAACP: Obama made it worse for you 'in almost every way'
The Hill ^
Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:19:58 AM
Romney to NAACP: Obama made it worse for you 'in almost every way' By Jonathan Easley - 07/11/12 10:01 AM ET
Mitt Romney will tell the NAACP on Wednesday that President Obama has made it worse for African-Americans “in almost every way.”
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone,” Romney will say, according to prepared remarks provided by his campaign. “Instead, it’s worse for African-Americans in almost every way. The unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income and median family wealth are all worse for the black community.”
While Obama leads Romney 92 percent to 2 among black voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, Romney hopes his economic pitch will resonate with a group that has been disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. He's made a similar appeal to other voting blocs, such as Hispanics and women.
Romney will acknowledge the historic nature of Obama’s 2008 campaign, in which he became the country’s first black president, but will also make the case for his own candidacy.
"I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president," the presumptive GOP nominee will say. "I want you to know that if I did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color — and families of any color — more than the policies and leadership of President Obama, I would not be running for president."
He also will make the argument that Obama’s economic policies are creating similar barriers to those that civil rights activists fought hard to remove.
“If someone had told us in the 1950s or '60s that a black citizen would serve as the 44th president, we would have been proud and many would have been surprised,” Romney will say. “Picturing that day, we might have assumed that the American presidency would be the very last door of opportunity to be opened. Before that came to pass, every other barrier on the path to equal opportunity would surely have to come down.
“Of course, it hasn’t happened quite that way. Many barriers remain. Old inequities persist. In some ways, the challenges are even more complicated than before. And across America — and even within your own ranks — there are serious, honest debates about the way forward.”
The former Massachusetts governor will cite unemployment among African-Americans, which at 14.4 percent is well above the national average of 8.2.
“I am running for president because I know that my policies and vision will help hundreds of millions of middle-class Americans of all races, will lift people from poverty, and will help prevent people from becoming poor,” Romney will say. “My campaign is about helping the people who need help. The course the president has set has not done that — and will not do that. My course will.”
Romney will also focus on education, which earlier in the primary season he referred to as “the civil rights issue of our era.” Romney says he will “give the parents of every low-income and special-needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school,” and will link federal education funds to the student, which he says will open the opportunity for children of poor families to attend charter and private schools.
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families could send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly offer the hope of a better life,” Romney will say. “Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept. Today, black children are 17 percent of students nationwide — but they are 42 percent of the students in our worst-performing schools.”
Obama will not address the NAACP convention this year, but Vice President Biden is scheduled to speak on Thursday.
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100% of people that work hard give 0% of a shit.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/mitt-romney-naacp-speech_n_1664343.html#comments
And of course Mittens gets attacked by the hard left for going there.
fucking libs.
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He is going to gain a ton of votes from this.
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yeah, a ton of votes to be gained. there were a pocket of pity/victim voters who wern't already ardent FOX viewers. HA!
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yeah, a ton of votes to be gained. there were a pocket of pity/victim voters who wern't already ardent FOX viewers. HA!
McLame refused to go there in 2008 and Mittens gave a very good speech today and did not pander to them or tell them to get their bed room slippers off and stop cryin, stop complainin.
Notice the difference between Romney today and Obama. Romney gave a sober speech like a mature adult. Obama simply shouts at them like race pimp.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/mitt-romney-naacp-speech_n_1664343.html#comments
And of course Mittens gets attacked by the hard left for going there.
fucking libs.
Tell us EXACTLY what part of that story in your link where YOU SEE Romney being "attacked" or even criticized for going there.
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Tell us EXACTLY what part of that story in your link where YOU SEE Romney being "attacked" or even criticized for going there.
The comments section.
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The comments section.
The comments could be from anyone, even teabaggers or right wingers who hate Romney
The article itself gave Romney credit multiple times for making this speech
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FULL SPEECH
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They loudly booed him when he said that he would overturn Obamacare but he's getting some applause for other things. Gotta give him props for doing what McCain and Palin would not.
McCain spoke to the NAACP during the 2008 campaign.
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McCain spoke to the NAACP during the 2008 campaign.
I dont think McCain did.
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I dont think McCain did.
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My bad.
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And hence the typical brainwashed leftist.
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CBS News White House Reporter Rips Obama For Ducking NAACP
CBS News via Twitter ^ | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | Mark Knoller
Why is Pres Obama not addressing NAACP Convention in this election year? Jay Carney repeatedly said "ask the campaign." (more) 3:32 PM - 11 Jul 12via web
Two Obama Campaign spkspeople say Pres Obama not addressing NAACP because VP Biden is. (more) 3:34 PM - 11 Jul 12via web
Circular reasoning since VP Biden is addressing the NAACP tomorrow because Pres. Obama is not. (more) 3:35 PM - 11 Jul 12via web
A president's schedule allows for him to do anything he wants to do. He has a small army of personnel to make sure that';s (sic) the case. 3:38 PM - 11 Jul 12via web
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No Black People Approved this Message…RACISM! (Kira Davis respods to Emmanuel Cleaver)
Kira Davis blog ^ | July 11, 2012 | Kira Davis
Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:28:19 PM by Da Bilge Troll
“I don’t know who’s advising Gov.Romney from the African America perspective but I would give him an F- on talking about Obamacare in terms of repealing it, not to this audience….he should never have gone there in the first place.”
Rep Emmanuel Cleaver said this on MSNBC today (it doesn’t matter who the reporter was; I’ve decided to treat MSNBC like they treat Blacks as a monolithic group of lemmings with no individual opinions or personalities). He was referring to Romney’s visit to the NAACP. Now, I know I should really stop being shocked to hear our black Democrat “leaders” talk like this, but sometimes I just can’t help myself.
Cleaver wonders aloud who is advising Gov. Romney from the African American perspective. I wasn’t aware that white people needed to be “advised” before they addressed black people. Heaven forbid Romney actually just look at these people as….Americans! Mon Dieu! You mean to tell me this man actually went into a room full of black people and was honest about his opinions and intentions?
Cleaver also gives Romney an F- for criticizing Obama’s policy to “this audience”. ”This audience”? Are they anything like “those people”? Just checking. Because I thought the NAACP was committed to fighting racism, not perpetuating it by suggesting that we blacks are only able to comprehend certain messages and not able to make decisions for ourselves about what we do and do not agree with.
Romney deserves respect for wading in where he knew he would not be wanted. Black liberals complain all the time that conservatives and Republicans don’t engage them enough in the political realm, and then when they do go directly into our communities to debate and conversate they’re treated like crap. Then liberals wonder all over again why those nasty, racist Republicans don’t have the stones to bring their message into our communities. Well, Mr. Cleaver – here’s a man with stones. He came to speak, not pander. I know you and your ilk at the Black Caucus and NAACP have made pandering an art, but you should at least have a little respect for a man who is willing to be honest about his views and not temper those views simply based on the color of the people he is addressing.
You should be embarrassed. I would be embarrassed for you, except that this diarrhea of the mouth you so often suffer from is a goldmine for bloggers like me, and only makes the argument for our side of the political spectrum that much stronger. So spew away. New media will be here to pick up every word.
And no, this message was not approved by the NAACP. Racism!
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Romney did well today.
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Romney Receives Standing Ovation for Straight Talk at NAACP Convention
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2012 | Katie Pavlich
GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney just wrapped up his speech to the NAACP convention in Houston, focusing mostly on the economy and education reform. Right out of the gate, Romney received laughs from the crowd after cracking a joke about President Obama.
“I appreciate the chance to speak first – even before Vice President Biden gets his turn tomorrow. I just hope the Obama campaign won’t think you’re playing favorites."
Romney framed his speech in general economic terms and tailored parts of it specifically to the African-American community. He focused on the family and defended traditional marriage, which received applause. President Obama supports same-sex marriage.
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families could send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly offer the hope of a better life. Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept. Today, black children are 17 percent of students nationwide – but they are 42 percent of the students in our worst-performing schools. Our society sends them into mediocre schools and expects them to perform with excellence, and that is not fair. Frederick Douglass observed that, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Yet, instead of preparing these children for life, too many schools set them up for failure. Everyone in this room knows that we owe them better than that.
“I’m hopeful that together we can set a new direction in federal policy, starting where many of our problems do – with the family. A study from the Brookings Institution has shown that for those who graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until 21 before they marry and then have their first child, the probability of being poor is two percent. And if those factors are absent, the probability of being poor is 76 percent.
"Here at the NAACP, you understand the deep and lasting difference the family makes. Your former executive director, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, had it exactly right. The family, he said, “remains the bulwark and the mainstay of the black community. That great truth must not be overlooked.”
"Any policy that lifts up and honors the family is going to be good for the country, and that must be our goal. As President, I will promote strong families – and I will defend traditional marriage."
"As you may have heard from my opponent, I am also a believer in the free-enterprise system. I believe it can bring change where so many well-meaning government programs have failed. I’ve never heard anyone look around an impoverished neighborhood and say, “You know, there’s too much free enterprise around here. Too many shops, too many jobs, too many people putting money in the bank.”
What you hear, of course, is how do we bring in jobs? How do we make good, honest employers want to move in and stay? And with the shape this economy is in, we’re asking that more than ever.
Free enterprise is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class. We have seen in recent years what it’s like to have less free enterprise. As President, I will show the good things that can happen when we have more – more business activity, more jobs, more opportunity, more paychecks, more savings accounts.
Romney also addressed the importance of being at the NAACP convention, despite 95 percent of blacks voting for Obama in 2008.
“With 90 percent of African-Americans voting for Democrats, some of you may wonder why a Republican would bother to campaign in the African American community, and to address the NAACP. Of course, one reason is that I hope to represent all Americans, of every race, creed or sexual orientation, from the poorest to the richest and everyone in between.
But there is another reason: I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African American families, you would vote for me for president. I want you to know that if I did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color -- and families of any color -- more than the policies and leadership of President Obama, I would not be running for president,” Romney said. “I am running for president because I know that my policies and vision will help hundreds of millions of middle class Americans of all races, will lift people from poverty, and will help prevent people from becoming poor. My campaign is about helping the people who need help. The course the President has set has not done that – and will not do that. My course will.”
Romney also offered the audience new information he hasn’t publicly touted, his father George Romney, was a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
Yet always, in both parties, there have been men and women of integrity, decency, and humility who called injustice by its name. For every one of us a particular person comes to mind, someone who set a standard of conduct and made us better by their example. For me, that man is my father, George Romney.
It wasn’t just that my Dad helped write the civil rights provision for the Michigan Constitution, though he did. It wasn’t just that he helped create Michigan’s first civil rights commission, or that as governor he marched for civil rights in Detroit – though he did those things, too.
More than these public acts, it was the kind of man he was, and the way he dealt with every person, black or white. He was a man of the fairest instincts, and a man of faith who knew that every person was a child of God.
Romney’s speech made it clear he wasn't at the NAACP convention to pander or preach at the audience. He simply presented a slew of facts and straight talk. Some topics he touched on, like repealing ObamaCare, received boos, but overall Romney received applause throughout his speech and it was reported by NBC that many in the audience gave Romney standing applause at the end of his remarks. It was clear he had a positive impact although the media will choose to focus only on the opposition to his remarks.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cleaver said Romney should not have criticized President Obama in front of a black audience but dispproved of audience booing.
You can watch the entire speech here.
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They loudly booed him when he said that he would overturn Obamacare but he's getting some applause for other things. Gotta give him props for doing what McCain and Palin would not.
or maybe Mc and Pa had more common sense to just stay away and write them off.
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or maybe Mc and Pa had more common sense to just stay away and write them off.
LOL - did you watch the speech?
Romney gave a very sober, mature, non-pandering, well delivered speech and got many applause throughout. He got one boo line on obamacare but the rest was well received.
Personally, Im glad he went there and gave this speech unlike the pandering hacks and leftists like thugbama, hillary, gore, et al who pander and toss around fake accents to black crowds.
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This is how leftists treat blacks.
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This is how Obama treats blacks - like shit. Pandering at its worst.
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what difference does it make what his father did 50 years ago
Shit - Mitt himself was pro-choice and pro gay rights 10 or 15 years ago so should we assume he has the same position on those topic today ?
only a moron would vote for Romney based on what his father did or did not do 50 years ago
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Pelosi: Romney made 'a calculated move' to get booed by NAACP
The Hill ^ | July 11, 2012 | Justin Sink
Posted on July 11, 2012 7:54:01 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Mitt Romney made a "calculated move" to get booed during his address earlier in the day before the NAACP.
“I think it was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention," she told Bloomberg TV.
Members of the civil rights organization booed Romney when he vowed to repeal President Obama's signature health care law.
Romney said earlier in the day that he "expected" a negative reaction to his speech, which NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said included positions "antithetical" to the interests of the civil rights organization.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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hey, it could very well be an engineered move to - drum roll please - play the fuccking victim.
"look, I got booed".
Maybe he was showing balls by saying that to the room - but if he's spoken to crowds all week and not said it, then whips it out today, that's a move for pity.
luckily, you have so may repub voters crying about how they're vicitms of everything, they'll cuddle mittens for his hurt feelings.
but america wants a leader with a spine. Does mitt have one? We're yet to see it.
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Did you watch the speech 180? Romney went in there and told the truth and did not pander to them.
Kudos to him.
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Mittens has nothing to lose by giving a speech there.
And his speech of what i heard was very good, direct, and to the point.
You made a valid political point without calling people names or mentioning a conspiracy.
This is Getbig history!
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NAACP crowd calls Romney 'demeaning,' 'insulting'
The Washington Examiner ^ | July 11, 2012 | Susan Ferrechio
Posted on July 11, 2012 7:40:36 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
HOUSTON - NAACP officials described Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's morning address to the nation's most prestigious civil rights group as demeaning and insulting.
A three-quarters full auditorium greeted Romney with lukewarm applause, but the atmosphere quickly grew increasingly tense as Romney made the case that President Obama's economic policies have not helped the black community. He cited the jump in unemployment among African Americans from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent in June.
"If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone," Romney told the civil rights group's annual gathering. "Instead, it's worse for African Americans in almost every way."
Clayola Brown, the member of the NAACP's National Board of Directors who invited Romney to speak, said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should not have used unemployment numbers to try to turn the crowd against Obama.
"It was insensitive and quite demeaning as a matter of fact," Brown told The Washington Examiner after Romney exited the stage. "Certainly we are aware of what the numbers are and the impact is in our communities. It's the dialogue used that we find insulting."
Brown said the point of inviting Romney to the convention wasn't to give him a chance to win over African American voters who overwhelmingly backed Obama in 2008 and are expected to vote for him again this fall. Instead, Romney was invited to "show respect to the organization," she said.
Another board member, Amos Brown, of San Francisco, called Romney's address, "an insult to the NAACP," including his references to the importance of family.
"For him to come here and lecture us about the family - he doesn't need to be talking to Negros about that," Brown said. "Who tore up the family?"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Typical.
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Obama camp cites 'scheduling conflict' for NAACP convention no-show
cnn.com ^ | July 11, 2012 | Dan Lothian
Posted on July 11, 2012 10:50:23 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign insists a "scheduling conflict" is behind the president's decision to skip this year's NAACP convention.
"We declined a few weeks ago and [the] NAACP was pleased [Vice President Joe Biden] was able to attend," a campaign official told CNN.
But the president's schedule for Thursday, released Wednesday evening, appears to be wide open with the exception of his daily briefing with senior aides and advisers.
Hilary Shelton, the NAACP Washington Bureau director and a senior vice president in the organization, said the White House never confirmed a visit.
“They were trying to work out something," Shelton said. As to why Obama could not attend, he added, "It was that something could not be moved. Something was crucial. And unfortunately, they couldn’t move it in a way they could get him here this week.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cn n.com ...
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Mitt Romney: Scrappy Underdog?
Reaganite Republican ^ | July 11 , 2012 | Reaganite Republican
Posted on July 11, 2012 7:55:46 PM EDT by Reaganite Republican
After watching the NAACP tell Romney's he's 'too white' to listen-to (then booing him), I just happened upon Stacy McCain's take on how Mittens carried himself... he makes a superb point:
Today I watched Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention and was impressed that he did not pander.
Yes, portions of his speech were aimed specifically at his audience — Romney talked a lot about education reform as a means of promoting opportunity — but for the most part, Mitt gave his standard Republican stump speech, saying the same things to the NAACP I’d heard him say to crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and other stops along the GOP primary campaign trail.
Mitt slammed ObamaCare and was willing to risk being booed for it, and in general displayed an admirable firmness of conviction...
More at The Other McCain...
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This is how leftists treat blacks.
And where was his marching shoes last month?
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And where was his marching shoes last month?
Obama treats blacks like toilet paper.
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And where was his marching shoes last month?
let's say a Prez Cuomo gave a similar speech in front of an Italo Americans group. I would be horrified and embarrassed beyond words.
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Obama treats blacks like toilet paper.
drinking on a week night?
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drinking on a week night?
He does. What has Obama ever done for any black person?
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NAACP leader accuses Romney of favoring white people after speech
Daily Caller ^ | 07/11/2012 | Alex Pappas
Posted on July 12, 2012 12:39:09 AM EDT by Qbert
The response from one NAACP leader after Mitt Romney’s speech before the organization on Wednesday? He favors white people.
“I believe his vested interests are in white Americans,” Charlette Stoker Manning, the chairwoman of Women in NAACP, told the website BuzzFeed following the Republican candidate’s Wednesday speech in Houston.
“You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he’s coming from. He’s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts — black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work,” Manning said.
Romney was booed at several points throughout his speech — the loudest being when Romney spoke of his desire to see “Obamacare” repealed. The Republican also received applause at times throughout the speech, notably for saying he’d protect traditional marriage.
In his speech, he argued that a Romney administration would better serve African-American voters.
“If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,” Romney said.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, the NAACP thanked Romney for addressing the convention but stressed they disagree with his policies.
“While we are glad that Governor Romney recognized the power of the black electorate, he laid out an agenda that was antithetical to many of our interests,” said NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous.
Typical.
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LOL - did you watch the speech?
Romney gave a very sober, mature, non-pandering, well delivered speech and got many applause throughout. He got one boo line on obamacare but the rest was well received.
Personally, Im glad he went there and gave this speech unlike the pandering hacks and leftists like thugbama, hillary, gore, et al who pander and toss around fake accents to black crowds.
You mean like this:
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http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-naacp-speech-audience-reaction-photo-2012-7
LOL. Bunch of libs.
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Romney and the NAACP
Last Updated: 11:26 PM, July 11, 2012
Posted: 11:00 PM, July 11, 2012
It’s no secret that blacks vote heavily for Democrats, especially in presidential races. But that isn’t stopping Mitt Romney from asking for their support anyway.
At the NAACP’s annual confab yesterday in Houston, the Republican made a compelling case for it, too — winning himself a standing ovation in the process.
Yes, the crowd booed when Romney vowed to repeal ObamaCare.
But his main point was that Barack Obama has failed blacks — as much, if not more, than he’s failed the rest of the nation.
Romney surely understood why blacks gave Obama a whopping 95 percent of their vote four years ago; rarely do they give Dems less than 90 percent — and Obama, the first black major-party presidential nominee, was no ordinary Democrat.
But alas, he said, Obama failed to deliver.
“The course the president has set,” Romney noted, hasn’t helped the very folks who need help most.
That, sadly, is indisputable.
“In June,” said Romney, “the overall unemployment rate remained stuck at 8.2 percent” — but the rate for blacks “actually went up, from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent.”
Romney also cited the second-class educational system to which African Americans are confined: “Black children are 17 percent of students nationwide, but . . . 42 percent of the students in our worst-performing schools.”
He blamed pols (Dems, for the most part, though he didn’t spell it out) for trying to have it both ways: “You can be the voice of disadvantaged public-school students or you can be the protector of special interests like the teachers unions, but you can’t be both.”
(Romney might have aimed that barb at some local NAACP chapters — like New York’s — which have been, umm, unduly influenced by teachers unions.)
He touched on other areas of interest to blacks, citing “neighborhoods filled with violence and fear . . . empty of opportunity.” And he stressed the importance of a key institution — “family” — and vowed to “defend traditional marriage.”
That, too, won him applause.
Romney’s job-creation plan would also help blacks, along with everyone else: He’d OK the Keystone pipeline, for instance, expand trade and help businesses by cutting taxes and red tape.
No, blacks (and the NAACP, in particular) won’t see eye-to-eye with everything Romney backs.
But at least he made his case in person.
Which is more than the incumbent — who’s no doubt taking the black vote for granted — will be able to say: Rather than attend himself, Obama is sending Vice President Joe Biden for today’s session.
How blacks respond remains to be seen.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/romney_and_the_naacp_N0tAjfl6tqIODCp8oKJnPM#ixzz20PhMYoGW
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Romney's NAACP Gamble Pays Off
By Tim Alberta
July 11, 2012 | 3:15 p.m.
http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/romney-steps-up-his-game-with.php
Mitt Romney isn't going to win the African-American vote over President Obama this November. Knowing that, it would have been understandable if Romney declined the NAACP's invitation to visit Houston on Wednesday and address the group's annual convention. The prospect of speaking to a crowd that overwhelmingly supports your opponent is not only politically risky; it's personally intimidating. In such settings, and under such an intense microscope, one small misstep can snowball into a news-dominating disaster. The Romney campaign, known for being risk-averse, easily could have determined the risks outweighed the rewards and avoided the event, opting instead to have their candidate address the conference via video message.
But Romney showed up. With the critical eyes of the political world resting squarely upon him, Romney marched defiantly into the lion's den and delivered a speech that was direct, assertive and dispassionate. Undaunted, the man seeking to unseat the nation's first African-American president stood calmly before a group of his most fervent supporters and informed them that he, not Obama, is the one they've been waiting for.
"If you want a president who will make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him," Romney told the crowd, pausing for added emphasis. As scattered boos echoed throughout the audience, Romney offered an unscripted -- and uncharacteristic -- display of bravado. "You take a look," he nodded.
It wasn't the first time his speech attracted the crowd's ire. Minutes earlier, while detailing his "five key steps" to restoring the economy, Romney promised to repeal the president's health care law -- casually referring to it as "Obamacare." The audience didn't like that, and they let Romney hear their displeasure, raining down boos on the Republican nominee. Romney appeared taken aback by the crowd's response, and for a few fleeting moments, it looked as if the Romney campaign's fear of an embarrassing episode would be realized.
Then something happened. Romney, often mocked for his robotic style and lack of nimbleness, stepped away from his script and succinctly explained his opposition to the Affordable Care Act: Business owners say it makes them less likely to hire new employees, he said. Romney then sought to reassure the skeptical crowd of his commitment to health care policies that protect society's most vulnerable and and provide effective care to those who need it.
The incident served as a microcosm of the broader occasion, one that revealed a different side of Romney. He easily could have played it safe in Houston, sticking to civil-rights issues and issuing abstract rebukes of Obama's economic and education policies. But he didn't. Instead, he went all-out, forcefully denouncing Obama's job performance and criticizing a law he knew had support among the Obama-friendly audience. Similarly, he could have ignored the boos following his "Obamacare" comment and continued with his carefully-scripted speech. But he didn't. Instead, he stopped and addressed the adversity head-on, explaining his position and with skill and authority.
Those who follow Romney's campaign and report regularly on his events often describe him as rote and guarded, someone whose speeches can seem sleepy, uninspired and vague. Those people saw a different candidate on the stage in Houston. Like a baseball team that grows complacent playing a stretch of home games, Romney displayed renewed focus and determination in front of the hostile road crowd. He spoke with aggravated empathy about the African-American unemployment rate reaching 14 percent. He hammered the issue of job creation, arguing that Obama's economic policies have disproportionately harmed minorities. And he expertly used education reform as a wedge between the president and his supporters in the audience, earning sustained applause when arguing that "candidates cannot have it both ways" -- i.e., Obama must choose between advancing education reforms and protecting teachers' unions.
It was a fine performance, one that delivered a distinct message to observers of all political stripes. Democrats saw a candidate who embraced adversity and wasn't afraid to mix it up. Republicans saw a candidate who was quick on his feet and took a punch without falling down. And independents saw a candidate who isn't the "extremist" or "panderer" his opponents portray him to be. To the contrary, his message to the liberal organization was consistent with his everyday conservative stump speech, and the optics of Romney confidently courting an opposition audience should play well with skeptical suburbanites eager for someone willing to set aside differences and talk about solutions.
There were plenty of pitfalls awaiting Romney in Houston. A more cautious candidate would have danced around them, if not avoided them altogether. That's the candidate we thought Romney was. Republicans should hope the new, aggressive Romney is here to stay.
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The left is in total meltdown and panic that mittens marched into that den of haters and told them the truth and did not pander to them and promise free stuff.
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Why Isn't Obama Speaking to the NAACP?
By Molly Ball
Jul 11 2012, 5:45 PM ET141
Romney spoke to the annual gathering of black leaders, but the president is sending lower-ranking officials. There's no obvious political explanation for the dis.
Reuters
President Obama is going to win the African-American vote. By a lot. Let's just get that out of the way. Even so, his decision not to speak at this week's NAACP convention is perplexing.
Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney, spoke at the annual gathering of black activists on Wednesday, and while he was booed for his trouble, he was also widely praised for making a symbolic gesture of outreach and braving the hostile crowd. Obama, on the other hand, sent two lower-ranking Democrats in his stead -- Attorney General Eric Holder spoke Tuesday, and Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak Thursday. The official explanation from the White House was that Obama had "scheduling" issues.
When the president is invited and sends an underling instead, that's an undeniable dis, especially when his opponent shows up in person. Obama, who won 95 percent of the black vote in 2008 (and who, you may have heard, is America's first black president), may believe he can afford to take black voters for granted. But that's not at all clear.
There are numerous states where black voter turnout could be crucial to Obama's hopes. The Southern swing states -- Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida -- are the most obvious, but African Americans also make up a substantial portion of the electorate in Rust Belt swing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania. Black voters in those states probably aren't going to vote for Romney, but Obama needs to make sure as many of them come out to vote for him as possible.
Obama has spent recent weeks revving up other elements of his base -- youths, gays, Latinos -- with both campaign events and election-year policy interventions. But African Americans haven't gotten any conspicuous outreach. Meanwhile, the president's decision to come out in favor of gay marriage has the potential to alienate at least a few black voters. Romney's comments in favor of preserving "traditional marriage," between a man and a woman, were applauded by the NAACP audience Wednesday.
Obama's decision to forgo the convention would make sense if there were an obvious political downside, but I can't think of one. Is he afraid it would remind white voters that he's black? It seems a little late for that. If anything, such a speech would contrast Obama's presumably warm reception with Romney's chilly one. It's hard to see how that's a bad thing for the president.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/why-isnt-obama-speaking-to-the-naacp/259707
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Obama does not give a damn about black people.
He has used and abused them his entire career and its disgusting what this fraud gets away with.
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Romney’s Stand and the Left’s Destruction of the Black Community
FrontPage Magazine ^ | July 12, 2012 | John Perazzo
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:02:30 AM by SJackson
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Romney’s Stand and the Left’s Destruction of the Black Community
Posted By John Perazzo On July 12, 2012 @ 12:42 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 5 Comments
In choosing to address the NAACP national convention Wednesday, Mitt Romney reached out to an organization whose leaders and rank-and-file members alike will support, with virtual unanimity, President Obama’s reelection bid this November. Nonetheless, the audience greeted Romney respectfully when he first stepped to the podium. That tenuous respect, however, quickly dissipated when Romney began to talk about Obama. Murmurs of disapproval ran through the crowd when the Republican candidate asserted that the President had not fulfilled his promises while in office, and that Romney’s own policies were likely to help “families of any color more than the policies and leadership of President Obama.” But when Romney pledged to reduce government spending in part by eliminating “expensive, non-essential programs” such as “Obamacare,” he was met with loud, sustained boos. Following the speech, NAACP chairman Ben Jealous wasted no time in issuing a statement indicating that Romney’s agenda was not only “antithetical” to the NAACP’s interests, but also reflective of “his fundamental misunderstanding of the needs of many African Americans.” No matter that the “Obamacare” legislation, as a major stepping-stone toward the Left’s ultimate goal of a single-payer system, will propel the country in the direction of a healthcare model that has already led to colossal levels of inefficiency, fiscal waste, and human tragedy wherever it has been tried.
The disapproval of Ben Jealous and his fellow NAACP members was of course entirely predictable, for they reside near the far left of the political spectrum, where any pledge to curb or reverse the growth of government constitutes heresy. Romney’s theme touched a collective raw nerve among the NAACP faithful—analogous to an outsider telling a Catholic congregation that the trinity and the doctrine of transubstantiation will lead them only to a spiritual dead-end.
The Left’s track record of economic, social, and moral destruction is easily observable to anyone willing to look at it. But as far as that goes, modern-day leftists are akin to the 17th-century philosophers who, professing certitude that mountains and valleys could not possibly exist on the moon, famously refused to condescend, even for a moment, to look through Galileo’s newly developed telescope. Indeed, contemporary leftists are likewise wedded to a faith they cannot bear to see challenged in any way, lest the carefully crafted towers of their understanding suddenly be washed away like sandcastles on the shore. Thus they turn a blind eye to the legacy of chaos and suffering that big government has brought to mankind generally, and to African Americans in particular.
Consider, for instance, what the Left did to the black community by way of government-mandated policies regulating the mortgage-lending industry. In 1977, progressive Democrats in Congress engineered the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which required banks to make special efforts to lend to minority borrowers—particularly mortgagors—of meager to modest means. In the 1990s, the Clinton administration effectively placed the CRA on steroids, transforming it from an outreach program into a strict quota system that imposed oppressive penalties on banks which fell short of their quotas. With no recourse other than to drastically lower their standards and to issue multitudes of subprime loans to borrowers with weak credit credentials, banks embarked on a path of ill-conceived practices that would ultimately lead to the housing-market collapse of 2008.
Because of their comparatively poor credit ratings as a demographic group, blacks were disproportionately represented among those who fell into the financial trap of subprime loans. Thus the subsequent foreclosure rates among black homeowners dwarfed those of their white counterparts. Because of this, the median net worth of black households declined by 53% between 2005 and 2009—the single greatest economic blow ever delivered to the black community. Then, from 2009-2012, African Americans collectively lost another $193 billion. When the bottom fell out of the housing market, it inevitably fell out of the jobs market as well. Between January 2007 and August 2011, the black unemployment rate spiked from 8% to 16.7% (and 19.1% for black males). Hoover Institution Fellow Thomas Sowell observes that although “many blacks got loans that they could not have gotten otherwise,” in the final analysis they “lost out, big time, from this ‘favor’ done for them by politicians.”
The ceaseless proliferation of big-government welfare programs and expenditures during the past half-century has likewise inflicted incalculable harm on poor blacks in the U.S. When President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 launched the so-called War on Poverty, he gave form to what Thomas Sowell has described as “the crowning triumph of the liberal vision of society—and of government programs as the solution to social problems.” With the expansion of the welfare state, Americans’ dependency (which previously had been declining for many years) on the federal government suddenly rose to unprecedented heights. By 1974, government-provided benefits were an astounding 20 times higher than they had been in 1965. From 1965 to the present day, more than $16 trillion of taxpayer money (in constant 2012 dollars) has been spent on welfare programs for the poor, yet the poverty rate is essentially unchanged.
The most devastating by-product of the mushrooming welfare state has been its corrosive effect on American family life, particularly in the black community. Rising illegitimacy rates are the key indicators of this development. The out-of-wedlock birth rate among blacks spiked from 24.5% in the mid-Sixties, to 50.3% in 1976, to 73% today. To be sure, there were cultural influences that helped to ignite the dissolution of American families generally, and of black families especially. But the ramifications of those influences have been amplified exponentially by provisions in welfare laws that offer substantial economic incentives for shunning marriage and avoiding the formation of two-parent families. For decades, means-tested welfare programs such as food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, day care, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families have penalized marriage. George Mason University professor Walter E. Williams puts it succinctly: “The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do. And that is to destroy the black family.”
The devastating societal consequences of family dissolution cannot be overstated. Father-absent households—black and white alike—are 700% more likely to experience poverty than two-parent families. A Heritage Foundation analysis notes that youngsters raised by single parents, as compared to those who grow up in intact married homes, are far more likely to be physically abused; to smoke, drink, and abuse drugs; to behave aggressively and violently; to engage in criminal activity; to perform poorly in school or drop out; to be treated for emotional and behavioral disorders; to serve jail time before age 30; and to experience poverty as adults. With regard to girls in particular, those raised by single mothers are more than twice as likely to give birth out-of-wedlock, thereby perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
Yet another area where big government has sown seeds of enormous destruction is in the public education system, which for decades has yielded a meager return on a very large, ever-escalating financial investment. Over the past half-century, the annual per-pupil costs of educating children in public elementary and secondary schools have risen (in constant present-day dollars) from $2,808 in 1962, to nearly $11,000 today. Yet the performance of America’s public-school students has not improved in the least. Between 1973 and 2008, the math and reading scores of 17-year-old high-schoolers taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress were unchanged. SAT reading scores for the high-school class of 2011 were the lowest on record. According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an evaluation of high-school students in 34 countries which belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. today ranks 25th in math literacy, 17th in scientific literacy, and 14th in reading proficiency. African-Americans have been particularly shortchanged by the public-education system’s inadequacies. If black students in the U.S. were counted as a self-contained “national” group, their average PISA reading scores would rank them 31st among the 34 OECD nations. Black high-school graduates nationwide perform, on average, at a level that is four academic years below that of their white counterparts.
Moreover, large numbers of African American public-school students fail to obtain a high-school diploma—very significant, in light of the fact that dropouts go on to earn substantially less money during their working lives than students who graduate. Dropout rates are especially high in urban areas with large black populations, including such academic basket cases as Washington, DC (57%), Trenton (59%), Camden (61.4%), Baltimore (65.4%), Cleveland (65.9%), and Detroit (75.1%).
The failure of public schools to properly educate American students—blacks in particular—can be attributed largely to the priorities of the teachers unions. Far more devoted to promoting left-wing political agendas than to improving the quality of public education, these unions rank among the most powerful political forces in the United States. The National Education Association (NEA), for instance, employs more political organizers than the Republican and Democratic National Committees combined. Of the $59 million in combined political donations which the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers have made during the past 20 years, more than $56 million has gone to Democratic candidates. Meanwhile, the teachers unions have endeavored to prevent even the most ineffective instructors from losing their jobs, lest their mandatory union dues—which in turn are funneled into political activism—be lost. For instance, during a recent ten-year period in Newark, New Jersey—where the high-school graduation rate was just 30.6%—only one out of every 3,000 public-school teachers in the city was terminated in any given year.
In summation, big government has shown itself, time and again, to be the problem for black Americans rather than the solution. Yet the Left’s deep and abiding faith in big government remains unshaken. The NAACP is part and parcel of that Left. As such, the organization is utterly intolerant of opposing points of view—i.e., political heresies. Its hostility to opponents of big government is particularly evident in its profound contempt for black conservatives, who, as the self-identified black conservative Shelby Steele explains, “dissen[t] from the victimization explanation of black fate … when it is made the main theme of group identity and the raison d’être of a group politics.” Indeed, the NAACP’s longtime chairman Julian Bond once referred to Ward Connerly, a black California Board of Regents member who led the fight to end affirmative action in California’s public sector, as a “fraud” and a “con man.” Moreover, Bond has described black conservatives in general as “ventriloquists’ dummies” who “speak in their puppet-master’s voice.” Former NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks sang a similar tune years ago, when he denounced black conservatives as “a new breed of Uncle Tom” and “some of the biggest liars the world ever saw.”
As a white man addressing the NAACP on Wednesday, Mitt Romney—though he was booed several times during the course of his speech, and though chairman Ben Jealous derided Romney’s agenda as “antithetical” to NAACP values—still received a more amicable reception than a black conservative would have gotten. At the end of his talk, in fact, Romney was cheered after having praised his listeners for “all that you bring to the work of today’s civil rights cause,” and for lauding the “spirit [that] has carried the NAACP to many victories.” For the Left, run-of-the-mill heretics who challenge a congregation’s pious devotion to big government are ultimately less objectionable than race-traitors.
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Got to love how the media is trying desperately to make it seem like Romney was booed off the stage and chased off the property by a torch wielding mob.
He was booed when he brought up repealing ObamaCare and other than that he received decent applause and a standing ovation at the end.
Pathetic.
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Got to love how the media is trying desperately to make it seem like Romney was booed off the stage and chased off the property by a torch wielding mob.
He was booed when he brought up repealing ObamaCare and other than that he received decent applause and a standing ovation at the end.
Pathetic.
Its all media narrative they are trying to create to kneepad obama.
Mittens did way better than GWB or McCain could have done.
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Its all media narrative they are trying to create to kneepad obama.
Mittens did way better than GWB or McCain could have done.
It's funny, the video is available to the public on YouTube and even the clips that MSNBC and CNN are showing have the applause in them. These crazy reporters are living in a totally different reality at this point in time. How long until they edit out the applause and the standing ovation and splice in massive boo's and CGI in people throwing tomatoes at him?
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It's funny, the video is available to the public on YouTube and even the clips that MSNBC and CNN are showing have the applause in them. These crazy reporters are living in a totally different reality at this point in time. How long until they edit out the applause and the standing ovation and splice in massive boo's and CGI in people throwing tomatoes at him?
The worst part is that they are harming the NAACP since overall they were respectfull and the media is making them sound like an unruly mob.
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It's funny, the video is available to the public on YouTube and even the clips that MSNBC and CNN are showing have the applause in them. These crazy reporters are living in a totally different reality at this point in time. How long until they edit out the applause and the standing ovation and splice in massive boo's and CGI in people throwing tomatoes at him?
give fox news some time :D
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give fox news some time :D
Uh, what? Why would Fox News edit it?
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Black Leaders Open Fire on Obama Over Unemployment
Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2013 | Donald Lambro
Posted on March 29, 2013 4:06:09 PM EDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's failed job policies are facing bitter criticism from African-American leaders who say black unemployment has grown worse under his presidency.
After four years of holding their tongues and remaining quiet in the face of sharply rising black unemployment and record poverty, political leaders from the Congressional Black Caucus to the NAACP have begun to open fire on the White House.
Obama won 96 percent of the black vote in 2008 and about the same percentage in 2012, despite a worsening jobless crisis among African-Americans. At 14 percent for adults and 43.1 percent for 16-to-19-year-old teenagers, blacks still have the highest jobless rate of any minority group in the U.S.
Black leaders in Congress largely kept their complaints to themselves throughout Obama's first term in office and his re-election campaign. But no longer.
The nation's black leadership has become a great deal more vocal lately about severe unemployment, fewer job opportunities, and a weak, lackluster economy. They are especially unhappy with the fact that Obama has placed relatively few black officials in top level positions in his second term administration.
It didn't get that much media attention, but shortly after Obama was inaugurated in January, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous went on nationwide television to condemn Obama's weak job creation record, charging that black Americans "are doing a full point worse" than when Obama became president.
"The country's back to pretty much where it was when this president started," Jealous said on Meet The Press on Jan. 27.
The government's employment numbers maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics support Jealous' latest criticism. The black unemployment rate was 12.7 percent when President George W. Bush finished his second term and Obama took office.
It soared over the first three years of Obama's first term to 16.7 percent by September 2011 (the worst jobless rate for black Americans since 1983). Unemployment among black teenagers exploded to 39.3 percent in July, 2012.
"Statistics show that the African-American community is in bad shape under the Obama administration," the widely read web site "Your Black World" said this week.
Earlier this month, Democratic Rep. Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, let loose with some stinging criticisms of Obama's record on his appointments in his second term.
"The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country's diversity," she said in a letter to Obama. "Their ire is compounded by the overwhelming support you've received from the African-America community."
Fudge and other CBC members complain that Obama has not devoted enough attention in his agenda to many of the critical economic issues within the black community, especially rising unemployment.
"I think we are going to hear more voices of opposition coming from all sectors of black leadership, and certainly from the most hard pressed sections of the black population," said Dr. Tony Monteiro, professor of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Unfortunately, most black leaders do not understand that it is Obama's anti-growth, economic policies that have contributed to the persistently high level of unemployment among all Americans, especially African-Americans.
The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus still believe that Obama's $800 billion economic stimulus plan, largely made up of public works, infrastructure and other government spending, was the smart way to create jobs and boost economic growth. If anything, they wanted him to spend more.
But there were no economic growth incentives in his plan that would boost venture capital investment, the mother's milk of business expansion, new business formation and job creation.
Soon after Obama's stimulus plan became effective and the money began flowing out across the country, a look at the list of recipients revealed that it included hundreds of federal agencies and programs. It expanded government spending, and maybe some of the money trickled down to workers, but it created relatively few permanent jobs.
Once the stimulus funds were spent on roads, bridges and other public workers projects, the jobs ended.
The proof that Obama's Keynesian spending didn't work is in the numbers: high unemployment that is still skirting 8 percent, and it is actually 14 percent if you include workers who want and need full-time employment but are forced to take part-time jobs.
And the economy isn't getting stronger, as we can see in the economic growth numbers that measure the gross domestic product (GDP) that is the sum of everything we produce, sell and export. It grew at a barely-moving pace 0.4 percent in the last three months of 2012, according to the Commerce Department's latest estimate Thursday.
The Federal Reserve says unemployment will remain high this year and next and economic growth will remain weak for at least the next two years.
Now Obama is calling for a $9 an hour minimum wage which the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus has supported in the past and no doubt supports now. But this is a job killer, particularly for small businesses and especially for minorities. It will kill entry-level training jobs and that will drive black employment even higher.
In an interview with the College Fix web site, Antony Davies, an economics professor at Duquesne University, explains why: "When businesses -- especially small businesses -- are faced with increased labor costs due to minimum wage hikes, less valuable jobs are eliminated. After that, the extra workload is doled out to remaining employees."
Or as economist Murray Rothbard writes in his book, The Free Market, "In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period."
Meantime, it is becoming increasingly self-evident that black leaders are getting fed up with the economic results of Obama's presidency. For the first time, they have begun to question and to criticize some of the economic policies that he still defends but that they now know aren't working
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Black Leaders Open Fire on Obama Over Unemployment
Townhall.com ^ | March 29, 2013 | Donald Lambro
Posted on March 29, 2013 4:06:09 PM EDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's failed job policies are facing bitter criticism from African-American leaders who say black unemployment has grown worse under his presidency.
After four years of holding their tongues and remaining quiet in the face of sharply rising black unemployment and record poverty, political leaders from the Congressional Black Caucus to the NAACP have begun to open fire on the White House.
Obama won 96 percent of the black vote in 2008 and about the same percentage in 2012, despite a worsening jobless crisis among African-Americans. At 14 percent for adults and 43.1 percent for 16-to-19-year-old teenagers, blacks still have the highest jobless rate of any minority group in the U.S.
Black leaders in Congress largely kept their complaints to themselves throughout Obama's first term in office and his re-election campaign. But no longer.
The nation's black leadership has become a great deal more vocal lately about severe unemployment, fewer job opportunities, and a weak, lackluster economy. They are especially unhappy with the fact that Obama has placed relatively few black officials in top level positions in his second term administration.
It didn't get that much media attention, but shortly after Obama was inaugurated in January, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous went on nationwide television to condemn Obama's weak job creation record, charging that black Americans "are doing a full point worse" than when Obama became president.
"The country's back to pretty much where it was when this president started," Jealous said on Meet The Press on Jan. 27.
The government's employment numbers maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics support Jealous' latest criticism. The black unemployment rate was 12.7 percent when President George W. Bush finished his second term and Obama took office.
It soared over the first three years of Obama's first term to 16.7 percent by September 2011 (the worst jobless rate for black Americans since 1983). Unemployment among black teenagers exploded to 39.3 percent in July, 2012.
"Statistics show that the African-American community is in bad shape under the Obama administration," the widely read web site "Your Black World" said this week.
Earlier this month, Democratic Rep. Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, let loose with some stinging criticisms of Obama's record on his appointments in his second term.
"The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country's diversity," she said in a letter to Obama. "Their ire is compounded by the overwhelming support you've received from the African-America community."
Fudge and other CBC members complain that Obama has not devoted enough attention in his agenda to many of the critical economic issues within the black community, especially rising unemployment.
"I think we are going to hear more voices of opposition coming from all sectors of black leadership, and certainly from the most hard pressed sections of the black population," said Dr. Tony Monteiro, professor of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Unfortunately, most black leaders do not understand that it is Obama's anti-growth, economic policies that have contributed to the persistently high level of unemployment among all Americans, especially African-Americans.
The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus still believe that Obama's $800 billion economic stimulus plan, largely made up of public works, infrastructure and other government spending, was the smart way to create jobs and boost economic growth. If anything, they wanted him to spend more.
But there were no economic growth incentives in his plan that would boost venture capital investment, the mother's milk of business expansion, new business formation and job creation.
Soon after Obama's stimulus plan became effective and the money began flowing out across the country, a look at the list of recipients revealed that it included hundreds of federal agencies and programs. It expanded government spending, and maybe some of the money trickled down to workers, but it created relatively few permanent jobs.
Once the stimulus funds were spent on roads, bridges and other public workers projects, the jobs ended.
The proof that Obama's Keynesian spending didn't work is in the numbers: high unemployment that is still skirting 8 percent, and it is actually 14 percent if you include workers who want and need full-time employment but are forced to take part-time jobs.
And the economy isn't getting stronger, as we can see in the economic growth numbers that measure the gross domestic product (GDP) that is the sum of everything we produce, sell and export. It grew at a barely-moving pace 0.4 percent in the last three months of 2012, according to the Commerce Department's latest estimate Thursday.
The Federal Reserve says unemployment will remain high this year and next and economic growth will remain weak for at least the next two years.
Now Obama is calling for a $9 an hour minimum wage which the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus has supported in the past and no doubt supports now. But this is a job killer, particularly for small businesses and especially for minorities. It will kill entry-level training jobs and that will drive black employment even higher.
In an interview with the College Fix web site, Antony Davies, an economics professor at Duquesne University, explains why: "When businesses -- especially small businesses -- are faced with increased labor costs due to minimum wage hikes, less valuable jobs are eliminated. After that, the extra workload is doled out to remaining employees."
Or as economist Murray Rothbard writes in his book, The Free Market, "In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period."
Meantime, it is becoming increasingly self-evident that black leaders are getting fed up with the economic results of Obama's presidency. For the first time, they have begun to question and to criticize some of the economic policies that he still defends but that they now know aren't working
Once again, silly negroes......WE TOLD YOU SO!!
If the lion's share of black people are stupid enough to re-elected Obama, despite his flat-out ignoring the black unemployment rate, cutting off the DC scholarship program (to get poor black kids out of crappy schools), pushing ObamaCare which will screw black peple more than any other group, and completely flip-flopping on marriage (after 8 years of saying marriage is a man and a woman) the instant his homo benefactors came a-calling, then they deserve what they get.
After all, elections have consequences.
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Yup. Elections have consequences.