Posted on 05/16/2014 7:14:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to a Fox News survey released on Wednesday, Obamas approval rating stands at 45 percent among all registered voters. However, among black voters, Obamas job approval soars to 86 percent.
Given Obamas devastating impact on black Americans, this is even more confounding than the whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Obamas election, no doubt, generated considerable ethnic pride. Seeing a black man (or, precisely, a half-black man) inaugurated was a truly exceptional milestone for all Americans black and otherwise.
But Obama reached the Oval Office nearly five years and four months ago. Since then, his performance should have dimmed his halo among blacks, especially considering how much they have suffered on his watch.
When Obama entered office on January 20, 2009, U.S. unemployment stood at 7.8 percent. By April 2014, that Bureau of Labor Statistics figure had fallen to 6.3 percent a modest improvement. Among blacks overall, joblessness dropped, though less significantly from 12.7 to 11.6 percent. But for blacks aged 16 to 19, unemployment grew from 35.3 to 36.8 percent.
Obamas somewhat more sanguine unemployment numbers, such as they are, seem less about job growth and more about people simply abandoning the workforce whereupon they conveniently exit the unemployment rate. The more revealing labor-force-participation rate thus fell from 65.7 percent in January 2009 to 62.8 percent last month, a portrait of disengagement last witnessed in March 1978. For black adults, that number slipped from 63.2 to 60.9 percent. While 29.6 percent of blacks aged 16 to 19 were working when Obama took power, only 27.9 percent were employed last month.
Poverty has increased under Obama. Overall, 14.3 percent of Americans were below the poverty line in January 2009, versus 15.0 percent in 2012, according to the latest available data from the Census Bureaus Current Population Survey. Similarly, the share of black Americans living in poverty expanded from 25.8 to 27.2 percent.
Inflation-adjusted median household income fell across America, from $53,285 in 2009 to $51,017 in 2012, the most recent Census Bureau data indicate. Blacks slid, too, from $34,880 to $33,321 and at a much lower income level.
Americas population of food-stamp recipients soared overall from 32,889,000 in 2009 to 46,022,000 in 2012, the latest Agriculture Department statistics show. For blacks, the analogous numbers are 7,393,000 when Obama arrived to 10,955,000 in 2012.
In spite of $275 billion in housing-market bailouts that Obama unveiled in his first month in office, home ownership actually has waned. In the first quarter of 2009, 67.3 percent of Americans owned homes. By 1Q 2014, that Census Bureau figure was 64.8 percent. Meanwhile, black home ownership during this interval sagged from 46.1 to 43.3 percent.
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In light of this dismal record, about the best that Obama can say to black Americans is, Nothing personal. Obamas focus on resentment and redistribution rather than robust growth has failed the entire country, not just black folks.
Also, these sad statistics do not capture the intangible humiliation of watching Americas first black president expose himself as a lazy, incompetent liar. This inescapable truth is confirmed by Obamas eerily detached demeanor, his& 169 rounds of golf in office, his scores of skipped intelligence briefings, his unforgivable absence from the Situation Room during the Benghazi massacre, and his burgeoning scandals from Fast and Furious to the IRSs persecution of conservative groups to the 40 or more war heroes who died without medical care while languishing on secret Veterans Affairs wait lists. And remember, Obamas oft-repeated If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it promise was PolitiFacts 2013 Lie of the Year.
Save for Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.), who frequently addresses black audiences, few Republicans bother to share these facts with black voters. Republicans should early and often. These data are toxic, and the GOPs growth-and-prosperity antidote is just what black Americans need.
Republicans should ask black voters this question: What has Obama done for you lately?
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
But they support him 110%, like voting in Philly, because he be Black or at least half Black. So if they suffer, tough. Stupid people often have to suffer.
Don’t care about them or their plight; they voted for this.
Fix and/or reset this crapfest they’ve helped create and everyone will be lifted up.
“Theyre black. Hes black. Whats not to like?”
Yes, with Blacks race rises above everything else.
I have a black neighbor who cannot STAND Obama. I really feel sorry for him, it hurts him deeply, the "black" support for Obama. Disgust and shame, and then anger, because he dare not "come out"...
I feel bad for those good folk...
In 2016 the Dems will nominate somebody for president who will not be black. That candidate will do like all other Dem candidates do and pander to blacks just as hard as he or she can. And that Dem candidate will get 90+% of the black vote no matter what dire straits black people are in.
I do too. There is a distinct difference between black americans who are and see themselves as americans and who work and take responsibility for their lives like many of the rest of us, as opposed to “african americans” also known as Holder’s People. Those are the group that the article talks about. I also know or work with a number of black americans who despise the kenyan and they are just as disgusted with him and his party as the rest of us.
One thing to consider, blacks for for DEMOCRATS at this pace. Bill Clinton? He had the same approval about this point in his presidency as BO does. I think they voted for John Kerry at about 85+ percent as well.
I bet if you factored out the black bias Obama would be at 35%
More like 29%
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