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Top Black Dem On Obama Bus Tour: "He's Not In Any Black Community"
During a sometimes-raucous session of what's being called the "For the People" Jobs Initiative tour, a key member of the Congressional Black Caucus told an audience in Detroit Tuesday that the CBC doesn't put pressure on President Obama because he is loved by black voters. But at the same time, Rep. Maxine Waters said, members of the CBC are becoming increasingly tired and frustrated by Obama's performance on the issue of jobs. Even as she expressed support for the president, Waters virtually invited the crowd to "unleash us" to pressure Obama for action.
The problem, Waters said, is that Obama is not paying enough attention to the problems of some black Americans. The unemployment rate for African-Americans nationally is a little over 16 percent, and almost twice that in Detroit. And yet, Waters said, the president is on a jobs-promotion trip through the Midwest that does not include any stops in black communities. "The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too," Waters said. "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired, ya'll. We're getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he's prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is. We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community. We don't know that."
As she discussed her dilemma -- frustrated with the president but hesitant to criticize him lest black supporters turn on her -- Waters asked the crowd for its permission to have a "conversation" with the president. "When you tell us it's alright and you unleash us and you tell us you're ready for us to have this conversation, we're ready to have the conversation," she said. Some members of the crowd immediately voiced their approval.
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Why should he visit the black communities, they have no money for his campaign reelection, they got no jobs. He already knows they will vote for him no matter how miserable their lives are. Instead he his riding around on his shiny new million dollar bus in the mid west, looking for donations from the crackers.
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The bus was made in Canada. The dumb ass.
Black unemployment is much higher under Obama than under Bush. But don't forget that Sarah Palin is stupid, Michelle Bachmann is stupid, The Tea Party is full of racists, tax the rich,....and uh, um.....Oh yeah, conservatives are big poopy pants.
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Link ? Sources?
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Mjölner
Now that is intellegent discourse.
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Phantasmal (08-17-2011)
Mjölner
Useless, like everything else you post. Thanks for nothing, again.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
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I knew you would see it as intelligent discourse if I dumbed it down for you.
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I gave you something, but you didn't recognize it because it was in the light. You need to step out of the darkness and into the light to be able to see it.
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Intellegent? Not so intelligent!
Minister of Truth (08-17-2011)
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As president, isn't Obama technically the "top black Dem?"
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I think that's a accurate statement.As president, isn't Obama technically the "top black Dem?"
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Top Black Democrat, riding around in big ass black Canadian Bus.....As president, isn't Obama technically the "top black Dem?"
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ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
Astraea
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Can you buy a bus made in America and the shell was made in Canada, where did the rest of the bus come from?
Please let me know if there are buses made in the USA, I couldn't find anything on Google, but still looking.
Astraea
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Seems he has company!Top Black Democrat, riding around in big ass black Canadian Bus.....
http://digitaljournal.com/article/310462
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