Pick the wackier Ohio Democrat
Posted on 03/22/2013 6:06:00 PM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Marcia Fudge didn’t sugarcoat her feelings about the fact that President Barack Obama has not yet chosen any African-Americans to fill open high-level positions in his second term.
“The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country’s diversity,” the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote in a terse letter to Obama this month. “Their ire is compounded by the overwhelming support you’ve received from the African-American community.”
The letter’s tone and tenor typifies the blunt, hard-charging style of Fudge, an Ohio Democrat, and signals a shift in how the 43-member caucus of African-American Senate and House of Representatives members will approach the nation’s first African-American president in his final years in office.
“I’m a very direct person just generally,” Fudge said in an interview. “I don’t use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.”
Fudge hopes to give the CBC a “bigger voice” beyond Congress in order to press an agenda that includes improving economic conditions for African-Americans, preserving and improving voting rights laws, and seeking a balanced change in the country’s immigration laws.
“I believe we can be stronger, more visible, but I also think we can be more effective if we take our positions beyond Capitol Hill,” Fudge said of the caucus. “We want to make sure that everybody understands that we’re not some group that’s so way out that we can’t fit in the mainstream. We are very mainstream, and I want that message to be told.”
Over the last four years, many CBC members held their tongues, quietly grumbled, or delicately expressed frustration about a seeming inability to get their message to Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Kind of how the Evangelicals felt after they gave the election to Jimmy Carter. He went on the rampage to pass an Equal Rights Amendment and forgot who put him in office. So, Miss Black lady, don’t every trust ANYONE just because of their skin color. It is racist to do so.
Pick the wackier Ohio Democrat
Both the Bamster and Fudge disgust me.
The heart of the issue may be that there weren’t any “diverse” candidates that were qualified.
How ‘bout them apples.
I nominate Sheila Jackson Lee as head of NASA.
“The people you have chosen to appoint in this new term have hardly been reflective of this country’s diversity,” the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote in a terse letter to Obama this month. “Their ire is compounded by the overwhelming support you’ve received from the African-American community.”
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She should just come out and say; “I blame his white half. If he was a real black, then....”
The fact being blacks are 12 or 13 percent of the population, what would be the proper number that would satisfy you, ma’am?
Shouldn't she be trying to improve the economic conditions for all Americans?
Or is she implying she wants to improve the economic conditions for African-Americans at the expense of other Americans.
Blacks make up 8% of the US population. Obama has Eric Holder.
There you go.
When it comes to commie lib DemocRATS, the jokes write themselves.
Meanwhile its the black conservatives (too few they be) are the new forgotten and despised ni99as to these tribal Dems.
Is it just me, or are blacks especially gullible?
Would it ever occur to that idiot that it makes more sense to appoint the best person available for the position, regardless of race, color or creed. No, I didn’t think so.
Said the plantation house sitter to the puppet masker.
If anyone can get our flag back without tipping over Guam on the planet mars, its SJL!
Ms. Fudge doesn’t seem to get it. Obama prefers Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers for the posts. He threw you and the Black Caucus under the bus, dear.
Isn’t Obama enough? He’s got to be worth a boatload of incompetent bureaucrats of the desired color.
Does Susan Rice count? Don’t forget the shadowy “advisor” Jarrett... she practically runs the joint, so she’s got to be worth something.
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