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Obama Backs Off Support for Black Farmers Suing USDA for Discrimination
ABC ^ | 4/21/09 | AP

Posted on 04/21/2009 8:58:33 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON -- As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he is president, and his administration so far is acting like it wants the potentially budget-busting lawsuits to go away.

The change isn't sitting well with black farmers who thought they'd get a friendlier reception from Obama after years of resistance from President George W. Bush.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhousda; black; blackfarmers; farmers; lawsuit; obama; support

1 posted on 04/21/2009 8:58:33 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...

The List, ping


2 posted on 04/21/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

They thought Zero was all ears...


3 posted on 04/21/2009 9:01:25 AM PDT by jessduntno (When POTUS is used in reference to Obama, does the TU stand for Totally Useless?)
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To: Nachum

So Obama is not what they thought he was huh? Amazing...[/sarc]


4 posted on 04/21/2009 9:05:41 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: Nachum
The change isn't sitting well with black farmers who thought they'd get a friendlier reception from Obama

LOL! Hey you all need to understand exactly what the word plantation means as it applies to democrats...

5 posted on 04/21/2009 9:05:56 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Nachum

they’ll hold that carrot under their noses forever


6 posted on 04/21/2009 9:08:34 AM PDT by wiggen
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To: bill1952

Thats what you get when you vote race first.


7 posted on 04/21/2009 9:08:41 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Nachum

I guess these black farmers are next to be added to Nappie’s DHS list.


8 posted on 04/21/2009 9:10:54 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Nachum

They seem to forget he is only 6.25% black, 50% white and the rest African tribal group, Luo. Why would he help black farmers? He is a lead apologizer to the world for every nitpicking thing the US has ever done to another country, real and perceived, and has no time for American black farmers. They have been thrown under the bus now that he is President.

We need signs that say ‘I TOLD YOU SO!’ Blacks thought their savior had arrived but not happening. They are Americans and all of us have been put at the back of the bus so ZERO can go out in the world and embrace dictators.


9 posted on 04/21/2009 9:11:07 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010!)
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To: Nachum

Maybe this will wake them up. Hey, the Dims are just using you for the votes! Wake up!!!!!!


10 posted on 04/21/2009 9:14:57 AM PDT by chippewaman
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To: Nachum

I don’t think the farmers are asking for $3 trillion.


11 posted on 04/21/2009 9:15:54 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: chippewaman
"Maybe this will wake them up."

Don't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

Always remember the prisoners in Uncle Joe's gulags cried when Stalin died.

Same phenomenon.

12 posted on 04/21/2009 9:20:19 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: Nachum

The real problem with people who are as flawed as Obama is, is that they will sooner or later betray everyone. This generally comes as a huge shock to their supporters.

While I don’t like what is taking place today, in certain instances some of it was taking place under his predecessor, and we didn’t know about it.

Frankly, Washington, D.C. is so screwed up, it’s tough to see the light at the end of the tunnel these days.


13 posted on 04/21/2009 9:25:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: Nachum

I’m surprised BHO didn’t promise them he would give them a farm or two after he kicked off the present occupants. But BHO has bigger fish to fry... like becoming the President of the World.


14 posted on 04/21/2009 9:26:52 AM PDT by BigFinn (Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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