Posted on 10/27/2012 10:01:48 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I just had to come on to FR tonight and post an experience I had this evening in downtown Dallas.
There was a celebration going on with a brand new 5.5 acre park that opened today downtown and there were live bands and fireworks and families and food and drinks...a really nice cold Fall night in Dallas. I would say there was easily 35,000 if not more in attendance.
So what makes tonight so different? Well...it was the communication between black and white families that was taking place. I would hear random conversations coming and going through the night amongst the crowd and we would engage in some of them and here was the fascinating thing that I discovered...blacks have had it with Obama.
I am not talking about what the MSNBC crowd would call "Uncle Tom/Sell Out Blacks" either. I am talking the straight up $10 to $12 an hour wage earners who are not making it at all.
One by one by one by one they either said they were not going to vote because Texas is going Romney anyway and that their families in Arkansas and Louisiana felt the same way. They are not only fiscally worse since Obama took office but they felt that Obama did NOTHING to improve the image of blacks in general.
Read that again.
They felt that Obama did NOTHING to improve the image of blacks in general.
That is pretty powerful stuff.
A large number of really good and hard working folks who were extremely offended by Obama embracing gay marriage, pissing on the military (so many folks have kids in the Army, Navy, and Air Force), and that when he got to the White House he didn't come visit inner cities, that he appointed people who didn't have anything in common with where he claimed he was coming from back in 2008.
My fellow Freepers, I wish you could have seen and heard what I heard tonight with my friends and family. They are staying home. They are not voting period. They were honest that they didn't believe in Romney and said if he does prove that he can turn the economy and jobs situation around and restores our foundation in God back to this country then they will reconsider in 4 years...but as of this year? Barack ain't got their vote and he does not have the vote of their families either.
Common words heard tonight were "He don't care", "He's OK but he ain't gettin' it done", "I am working harder than I ever have and never get to go out and do anything."
The saddest thing was a family of 10..10! Mom and Dad married for 25 years they voted for Reagan, Clinton twice, Gore, Bush, and Obama. They said they have 3 kids who have moved back home now and 2 are getting divorced and they have 2 kids each and that if you asked them 5 years ago if their family and lives would be this destroyed they would never have believed it.
The grandfather/Dad said to me that he owns a lawn/landscaping business and how many people he has had to lay off because people are doing their own lawns more and more now and landscaping is becoming a luxury item even for commercial accounts.
At the end of the day he said everything comes down to the security of having a job and a pay check and his faith and his rights protected and that voting for Obama was a "gesture vote" last time and he won't do it again.
I am just dying to know how many families these stories are being played out in across the nation tonight.
I can say with confidence that Barack Obama is going to lose at least 20 to 25% of the black vote he had last time which can do nothing but put the finishing touches on his epic collapse to come.
I understand your point. My point is that there most likely would have been three dead black Americans if those ex SEALs had obeyed orders. OR they would have been hostages. Or dragged through the streets . . .
I wonder if we will hear from those men or if they will remain unnamed. You would think the media would want to know who those men are and would want to tell their stories. But maybe they are Top Secret US state department employees. Is the Hillary State Department a spy agency? I thought Hillary hated spies. (sorry for taking a tangent from your post. I am rambling and should sign off . . .)
I live and work in the black areas of Los Angeles. In 2008, there were Obama signs everywhere, bumper stickers, lawn signs, campaign offices. This time, there’s almost nothing. Not saying that blacks won’t still vote for Obama 90+%, but turnout is not going to be what it was last time. The professional blacks, union members, bureaucrats, etc., will all come out to vote as usual, but the average black person making 12 bucks an hour, or sitting on the couch on “Sosh Security — not as many of them are going to show up this time. The excitement and energy is just not there. Won’t make any difference in California, of course, Republicans are not going to win a statewide race in California for a long time to come. But if the same thing is happening in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Virginia, etc., it bodes well for Romney.
Well, I hope so. Perhaps they don't talk to me about any of this now, because they're embarrassed about how utterly wrong they were in 2008. It can be hard sometimes to own up to ones personal mistakes, and admit that others were right.
Dunno. That might be the case here. I'd like to think that's all it is, but I doubt it.
It takes education and accurate information to break free of the liberal indoctrination trap. I doubt if a single one of them has done the real work to escape the Democrat plantation.
Yup....this time it’s going to be different, it really, really will be. I’ve heard this about black voting behavior forever & guess what ? It never happens. Will it happen this time....I doubt it. But I’ll be out here after the election & if blacks have sat out in record numbers & walked away from Obama I’ll be the first one to say I was wrong....and I’ll be happy about being wrong too.
The park is named for the 9-year-old son of billionaire Kelcy Warren.
Klyde Warren Park will create an urban green space over the existing Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Paul streets. It will provide connectivity to the city’s flourishing Arts District, bring cultural offerings together and serve as a central gathering space for Dallas and its visitors to enjoy.
In addition to a restaurant and performance stage, plans for the park include jogging trails, a dog park, a children’s playground, fountains, an area for games and much more.
Construction is funded through a public, private partnership including $20 million in bond funds from the city of Dallas, $20 million in highway funds from the state and federal government through TxDOT and nearly $50 million from private donations. In March 2009, the Park was selected to receive $16.7 million in stimulus funds that are specifically for transportation enhancement construction. The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation continues to raise private donations to fund amenity construction, operations and programming.
The design and construction of the park is being managed by Bjerke Management Solutions and the design is led by two nationally recognized design firms, The Office of James Burnett and Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. The head engineer on file is Mir Hadi Ali, P.E. from Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.
Klyde Warren Park will be privately managed and programmed by the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. Jody Grant serves as Chairman of the Board of the Woodall Rodgers Foundation and is joined by President and C.E.O., Linda Owen, and board members Elaine Agather, Nancy Best, Garrett Boone, Leo Corrigan, Ed Fjordbak, Sheila Grant, Linda Hart, Mitch Hart, Jeff Jackson, Tom Leppert, John Muse, Bob Shapard, Rob Walters, Kelcy Warren and John Zogg.
If anybody here knows how to write a tangent, it is I.
I'm the one signing off. Goodnight my FRiend.
That’s a lot of taxpayer funds for a park that will require expensive maintenance.
It is happening in Chicago, too. I doubt it would flip Illinois back to red, but it is happening. Still, even with the disgruntled black Americans, the fundamental problems have not changed much.
Yeah, but how many will vote? A lot less than voted in 2008. I’ve heard too many similar stories.
Fat chance.
I wouldn’t bet against you on that.
However I think it quite likely that on the order of 20% stay home vs. 2008, and that means ~2% nationally. It matters. It’s a huge swing when things are as close as they are. It also matters in the downticket races.
I find that very heartening. If only 10-20% of the black vote got out of voting in lockstep with the Dem party, it would have a huge effect on elections nationally for Republican/conservative candidates. The cold hard reality is that even without Obama, the number was probably less than 5%.
I passed an early voting place in New Orleans yesterday. The parking lot was overflowing and people were parked on the sides of the street. The line was super long and the line ran all the way across the parking lot. They are out and voting here.
Those that vote. I think turnout will becway down among blacks this time compared to 2008. Those that refuse to support him are like votes for R/R
That’s a great cartoon, it expresses things perfectly.
What stood out for me in your post was that your family members are like the blacks that I know: successful, intelligent and educated people who made it in America way before 0 showed up.
What has happened to them has happened to all of us and it helps me to realize my real angst is with Leftists and is not racial.
One young mixed race friend told her Dominican mortgage broker/landlord boyfriend:”You think you might have also been part of the problem?” Seems he could not collect rents from some blacks who told him that since 0 was POTUS, they no longer had to pay rent at all. These two both earn well above $150k/year, are just 40 or so and they may just vote for Romney.
Listening to that story, it's my bet that they'll either stay home, or give Romney their vote. I can't see them showing up to vote for the Disaster in Chief again.
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