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Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests
usnews.com ^ | 3/2/11 | Kenneth T. Walsh

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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To: Nachum
Obama's job-approvalmedia generated poll ratings had dropped markedly from the astronomical levels of his first few monthsdespite every effort of the lame stream media to manipulate them to below above 50 percent.


OK its fixed now

61 posted on 03/02/2011 8:53:32 PM PST by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: Nachum

All about whitey hatin’ on da blax.


62 posted on 03/02/2011 10:01:07 PM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: justsaynomore

a real man with a REAL birth certificate!

63 posted on 03/02/2011 10:21:17 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Big Mack

Haha, yep we hate both parts equally, yet since black seems to always trump white in the mixed raced person, that is where they will place the focus. Their blackness makes em feel spechial I s’pose.


64 posted on 03/02/2011 11:31:40 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Absolutely; by taking no action against him for his racist rants, Obama has proven to be not an American who happens to be half black, but a black guy who sees nothing else.


65 posted on 03/03/2011 3:21:17 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: Lee'sGhost

The Tea Party should make up bumper stickers along those lines.

“Marxism isn’t a race issue”

Socialism isn’t a race”

Any suggestions?


66 posted on 03/03/2011 4:27:39 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: W. W. SMITH; Nachum

Is ignorant narcissist a race?


67 posted on 03/03/2011 5:03:17 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Yours work for me....but I don’t think libs would get it.


68 posted on 03/03/2011 6:54:18 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzspfkujHQ

check out the racist beginnings of the tea party

about 6 min in

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69 posted on 03/03/2011 10:59:00 AM PST by teeman8r (armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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