Posted on 03/02/2011 4:45:34 PM PST by Nachum
In a new book, President Obama talks candidly about race and the presidency
African-Americans have been an integral part of the White House since it was built in part by slaves. In Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House, veteran U.S. News White House reporter Kenneth T. Walsh traces this sometimes fraught history from its roots all the way to the Barack Obama presidency. Click here to find out more!
As he began his second year in office, Obama's presidency was not going well. His legislation to overhaul the healthcare system was still bogged down in Congress. The unemployment rate, which polls showed was the top concern of most Americans, remained stubbornly high at about 10 percent, and much worse in many African-American communities. Obama's job-approval ratings had dropped markedly from the astronomical levels of his first few months to below 50 percent.
Adding to his woes, in January 2010 the race issue erupted again in an unusual and unexpected way. Democratic Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader and an Obama ally, was embarrassed because of some racially insensitive comments he had made to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the authors of a new book, Game Change, about the Obama campaign. It turned out that Reid had predicted in 2008 that Obama could succeed as an African-American presidential candidate partly because he was "light-skinned" and because he didn't speak with a "Negro dialect."
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His only connection to the descendants of American slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them.
I didn’t know “Marxist” was a race.
obama is as big of a racist as holder or wright.
LLS
I know. Don't you love it!
Barack's ancestors sold Michelle's.
Sounds like it’s beginning to dawn on 0bama that the president’s job is just wayyyyy too big for him.
Sorry Obama, we aren’t racists.
We are AMERICANS who love the constitution and hate those who trash it. Kinda like you. Race has nothing to do with it.
You are a British Subject and an USURPER, Now get the hell out of MY house.
He and his AG are really doubling down on the race issue: Internal polls must be really sagging...
I did not know that stupid was now a race.
Will Hillary be the nominee?
We have been trying to bury racism for years but somebody keeps digging it up.
He truly is an evil man.
Riiiiight. You keep believing that 0bama.
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This man is either a liar or a lunatic.
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