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How Obama Has Failed Black Americans
The American Thinker ^ | October 06, 2009 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 10/06/2009 3:36:36 AM PDT by Scanian

The Olympics will not be held in Chicago. So has Obama failed Chicago? Not really: hosting the Olympics is a decidedly mixed blessing and this will be forgotten soon. Obama, however, has failed black America, and that failure may linger for a long time. The election of a black president, all other things being equal, is a good sign in American politics. All things, though, were not equal in the case of Barack Obama. He was not and is not wedded to the grand principles of American greatness. The blessings of citizenship are squandered on Barack Obama, just as the honor of being the first black president is wasted on him. It is not that American lacks great black Americans.

Clarence Thomas is a truly great black American. He felt the sting of real bigotry much more harshly than Obama. Thomas faced and then overcame the quiet anger than many blacks of his generation must have honestly felt. Instead of becoming an advocate for his race, Thomas became an advocate for constitutional government. He did not fall into the well of intractable grievances. Justice Thomas rose above them.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bho44; blackconservatives; blackvote; exceptionalism; miserablefailure; racism; resentment; third100days
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1 posted on 10/06/2009 3:36:36 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

By being the suckiest president since Carter and screwing up the chances of any other future black candidate.... that’s how Obama has failed us.


2 posted on 10/06/2009 3:42:21 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Not a Slave!)
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To: Scanian

Because of O’s failures and corruption, no black candidate will have a chance to be elected President for a hundred years.


3 posted on 10/06/2009 3:44:43 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: Scanian

Obama has failed ALL Americans


4 posted on 10/06/2009 3:51:49 AM PDT by wny
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To: brwnsuga

I think about that a lot. But, it was black America that turned out in droves and voted like robots for the most inexperienced representative of their race. It is shameful that they voted with their race and not with their brains.
As a woman, I would never blindly vote for a woman candidate, in fact I have constantly thought the world does not respect women enough yet to even warrant a woman candidate. I have always said no to that, but Palin may change my mind. Maybe VP first.


5 posted on 10/06/2009 4:00:31 AM PDT by momincombatboots (The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: Scanian

An article well worth sharing. Thanks!


6 posted on 10/06/2009 4:02:18 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: brwnsuga
Thomas Sowell is, I believe, the greatest living analyst of human society.

Agreed totally. He's one of the smartest men in the world, and almost unknown because of the racist lefty press.

On a completely different topic, how did a fine, smart, strong good looking woman like Condi Rice stay single all these years? That's the only thing that's always troubled me about her.

7 posted on 10/06/2009 4:03:35 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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To: brwnsuga

I also meant to add in my comment that I agree with your post, too. 0bama’s failure will mean that guy like JC Watts or Ken Blackwell will never have a shot at the Presidency. It will be blamed on race, when it was really ideology, lack of experience, and gullible American voters who put him into a position where he was over his head that caused him to fail.


8 posted on 10/06/2009 4:08:32 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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To: momincombatboots
I think about that a lot. But, it was black America that turned out in droves and voted like robots for the most inexperienced representative of their race. It is shameful that they voted with their race and not with their brains.

I'm not so sure it was all about race. If it was, a Condi Rice, Colin Powell or J.C Watts would have been voted for in the same percentages. Instead, the black Democratic block vote went for the black Democratic candidate. Party was first, race was secondary.

9 posted on 10/06/2009 4:20:15 AM PDT by fso301
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To: momincombatboots
world does not respect women enough yet

Margret Thatcher and Golda Meier did very well.

I would have voted for them. I am a guy.

10 posted on 10/06/2009 4:29:36 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: momincombatboots
A huge chunk of the white (Guilt) population voted for Obama, and was sold a man who was supposed to be our "post-race president." Just vote for him, and all the whining, all the complaining, all the nonsense related to race will go away, they were sold.

Nine months later, that voting block has discovered that beyond this, Obama is a racist himself. When greeted with cop doing his job and an arrogant, elitist black college professor, he automatically assumes with no knowledge of the facts that "the police behaved stupidly."

Now, that white voting block is beginning to complain about the President's policies and plans, and of course this massive drop in the president's approval ratings has produced the expected knee-jerk cries of "RACISM!!!" from Obama's followers. You and I know this is only a reaction to his views, because if this shift is really racism, then it means that 30% of America actually had no idea Obama was black when they elected him.

11 posted on 10/06/2009 4:45:29 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: momincombatboots

But, it was black America that turned out in droves and voted like robots for the most inexperienced representative of their race.

Obama hasn’t failed black Americans, black Americans have failed America.


12 posted on 10/06/2009 4:47:06 AM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: Hardastarboard
0bama’s failure will mean that guyw like JC Watts or Ken Blackwell will never have a shot at the Presidency.

Well, duh! They're "not really black"!

13 posted on 10/06/2009 4:47:22 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: Scanian

And don’t forget Dr. Walter Williams.


14 posted on 10/06/2009 5:03:15 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: freedomfiter2
“black Americans have failed America.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” For your country, you can ‘play by the rules’, i.e., stay in school and actually LEARN something, don't have illegitimate babies, take responsibility for your own life, stop thinking the world owes you anything, stop selling and using illicit drugs, GET A NON-GOVERNMENTAL JOB, pay taxes, etc.

15 posted on 10/06/2009 5:04:00 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: Scanian

Obama has failed ALL Americans.


16 posted on 10/06/2009 5:04:46 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: wny

Dang - I should have known someone else would post this before I did!


17 posted on 10/06/2009 5:05:50 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: uncitizen

Glad you liked the post.

AT is always good to start the day!


18 posted on 10/06/2009 5:06:53 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: libertylover

Rush’s listeners never forget him. W.W. is one of the best sub hosts Rush has.


19 posted on 10/06/2009 5:16:26 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
Americans bought a slogan of Hope and Change which is like buying underarm deodorant because it is New & Improved.

Now the country is in the pits.

20 posted on 10/06/2009 5:18:59 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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