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Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too
BuzzFeed Politics ^ | 01/04/2013 | Ben Smith

Posted on 01/04/2013 9:25:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Edited on 01/04/2013 9:59:40 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

If there is anything approaching an iron law of American politics, it's this: The next president will be a member of the same race as the current one. It's a rule that has held through 42 of 43 transfers of power. And there's every reason to think it will hold through the next one.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: president; race
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To: Hotlanta Mike

RE: After 8 years of Obama failing the black community, there will be diminished energy by Eric Holder’s “people” to turn out the vote in 2016.

I heard something similar said in 2012. Only the remark was “After 4 years of Obama failing blacks”.


41 posted on 01/04/2013 11:15:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a shame Thomas Sowell will be 86. He would have my vote if he was younger!


42 posted on 01/04/2013 11:15:54 AM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: DManA

RE: Thank god! That means it won’t be Hillary.

Who’s to say it won’t be Michelle?


43 posted on 01/04/2013 11:17:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And you thought Idiocracy was just a fictional movie.


44 posted on 01/04/2013 11:27:36 AM PST by funfan
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s because it was the personality cult of Obama that dragged him over the finish line ahead of Vanilla Mitt...


45 posted on 01/04/2013 11:39:45 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Casie

...’scholorships, jobs and promotions’...those aren’t things that are voted on by the public.


46 posted on 01/04/2013 11:49:53 AM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Actually Baraq has been great for the black community.

We’re handing out EBT, unemployment, section 8 housing, medicaid, Obamaphones, etc like never before.


47 posted on 01/04/2013 11:55:22 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: concerned about politics
I think people have had enough of this "vote for their color" crap.

Ha, some people -- some white people -- have. But from what I've seen lately from actors and columnists and polls and the "where my free phone at?" crowd, it's race first and foremost from here on out.

48 posted on 01/04/2013 12:03:11 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: ryan71
Charles Barkley or Samuel L. Jackson, prolly.

Gawd imagine Barkley's golfing trips as Prez, make that pay-per-view and that will pay off the deficit.

49 posted on 01/04/2013 12:05:00 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jocon307
When Abe Beame was elected Mayor of NYC back in the day my mother said “There’s never been a Jewish mayor before, now they’ll all be Jewish”. She was wrong.

"Wrong" by one in what, forty years? Mama's doing pretty good so far.

50 posted on 01/04/2013 12:15:11 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually, I think this social experiment will be played out by 2016


51 posted on 01/04/2013 12:24:11 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: nascarnation

Unemployment for women rose to 7.3 percent in December from 7.0 percent while the rate for African-Americans rose sharply to 14.0 percent from 13.2 percent in November.
Unemployment among African Americans has remained quite high throughout the sluggish economic recovery of the past several years, despite the steady decline in overall unemployment in the economy generally.

The number of employed African Americans actually fell in December – a month that typically sees a spike in job creation as employers add temporary positions to handle the holiday shopping season.

The number of employed African Americans fell from nearly 16 million to 15.8 million in December.

By contrast, the unemployment rate for Whites remained nearly a full point below the national average at 6.9 percent in December.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/unemployment-rises-women-african-americans-december


52 posted on 01/04/2013 12:27:54 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: nascarnation
Obama does not look very "black" in this photo of him playing in the surf in Hawaii
53 posted on 01/04/2013 1:25:29 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: SeekAndFind

by then it won’t be skin color it will be policy


54 posted on 01/04/2013 1:46:00 PM PST by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: SeekAndFind

the next president will be Sarah Palin.


55 posted on 01/04/2013 1:49:42 PM PST by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Any guy with a drop of African blood that’s “successful” is black to the MSM.
Tiger Woods was probably the best example.


56 posted on 01/04/2013 2:57:17 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: stuartcr
I was referring to the job of presidency, and all elected positions as jobs. I was also expanding to include other jobs, scholarships and anything else where the number one criteria is race or sex.

Man, you are a tough one to have a conversation with. Haha. I wish we had YOU on the case when Clinton was impeached. I would have liked to see Bill try that "depends on what your definition of is is." on you. You woulda picked him to pieces. That would have been a joy to watch.

57 posted on 01/04/2013 7:36:36 PM PST by Casie (Chuck Norris 2016)
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To: jiggyboy

I’m not buying it. Odumbo has hurt the black community more than anyone in modern history. The NEXT black person, man or woman that will be elected will have to have been a “saint”, long before getting even close to being elected as Pres. Being a simple “community organizer” won’t cut it!


58 posted on 01/05/2013 5:26:29 AM PST by DaveA37
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