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Congressional Black Caucus : Hey, why is Obama ignoring us ?
Hot Air ^
| MARCH 12, 2010
| ED MORRISSEY
Posted on 03/12/2010 12:39:18 PM PST by RobinMasters
In some ways, one can sympathize with the Congressional Black Caucus. When America elected its first African-American President, they assumed that they would have unprecedented access to the White House and more influence on policy than ever before. After fourteen months, though, theyre disgruntled enough to start talking to the Washington Post about being taken for granted:
A year ago, members of the Congressional Black Caucus openly wept at Barack Obamas inauguration. Slowly, that euphoria has given way to frustration that his administration has not done more for black America. Questions about how to elect him have been replaced by questions about how to prod him.
For many, it is the surprise of a political lifetime that they find themselves wrestling with such quandaries. Alternately puzzled and disgruntled, CBC members say key people in the Obama administration have taken them for granted, in the belief that black members of Congress have no stomach for a fight with the countrys first black president.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; blackcaucus; blackpresident; cbc; democrats; hopeychangey; obama
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...
To: RobinMasters
I cannot believe anyone is that stupid.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:41:09 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: RobinMasters
zero is not black ....
he is enemy.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:41:30 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: RobinMasters
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:42:45 PM PST
by
NMEwithin
To: RobinMasters
Its his white side. Its racist.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:44:26 PM PST
by
envisio
(My wife don't care if I smell like welding rods and gasoline. She actually kinda likes it.)
To: RobinMasters
Obama is a little rich kid.
He could care less about the problems of being black in the US.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
His whole health plan Obama Care is a transfer of wealth from Republicans to Democrats, or from middle-income whites to minorities.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:46:15 PM PST
by
AlanD
To: RobinMasters
CBC... what is it you want that you’re not already getting (your “man” in the White House is working on taking from the “haves” and giving it to the have-nots)?
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:46:50 PM PST
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: RobinMasters
Congressional Black Caucus : Hey, why is Obama ignoring us ?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Obama not black. He a Arab.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:47:04 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
To: RobinMasters
Congressional Black Caucus : Hey, why is Obama ignoring us ?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Obama not black. He a Arab.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:47:05 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Gee,Free health care,free student loans and he’s just getting started you dumb f****!
To: RobinMasters
You're just pawns. Next question...
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:48:11 PM PST
by
Niteranger68
(Barack Obama is Osama bin Laden's relief pitcher.)
To: RobinMasters
Actually, Obama has been throwing tons of money to the black community. He just hasn’t been giving the Black Caucus the kind of major pork deals they expected. The bribes aren’t big enough.
Klinton had to prove he was black by bribing them. Obama doesn’t.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:50:10 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: RobinMasters
The reason democrats take blacks for granted is that they can take them for granted.
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:50:57 PM PST
by
henkster
(A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
To: AlanD
No. Because all the rich Dems will continue to lose money as his plans are carried out.
You think only Republicans hold stocks and bonds?
Bill Gates lost $30 billion all by himself.
To: RobinMasters
Better question: Why should anybody pay any attention to the ravings of the ignorant corrupt racists who make up the BCC??
To: henkster
Let’s see...if you have an old beater in the driveway; what do you do with it? You drive it to pick up manure at Home Depot...you drive it until it breaks down...you sure don’t put any money in it because it’s an old beater.
To: ozzymandus
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:55:52 PM PST
by
petercooper
(GOP: Big Tent Party??? Not if you are a CONSERVATIVE.)
To: RobinMasters
The CBC and people like Maxine Waters & Company are so dumb they didn't realize the guy is -- ta dah -- as white as he is black. No more, no less. He has exactly ONE high level black presidential advisor, Valerie Jarrett, who so far hasn't turned out to be all that effective. The rest are unscrupulous middle-aged white guys like Rahm and Axelrod, Left-wing statists, who could give a flying fig about the CBC's agenda. BO and his guys don't have to do anything the CBC wants, and they know it, because the CBC will always back him, and never do anything more disruptive than whine to the Washington Post. BO misled the black people in this country just as much as he did the true-believer white and Hispanic Lefties who voted for him.
"I'll have another slice of your delicious schadenfreude, please, with extra whipped cream."
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posted on
03/12/2010 12:57:58 PM PST
by
La Lydia
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