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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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You won't have Barak (Dick Nixon) Obama to kick around anymore!
1 posted on 03/02/2011 4:45:37 PM PST by Nachum
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Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 03/02/2011 4:46:05 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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African-Americans have been an integral part of the White House since it was built in part by slaves.

His only connection to the descendants of American slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them.

3 posted on 03/02/2011 4:47:27 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Nachum

I didn’t know “Marxist” was a race.


4 posted on 03/02/2011 4:47:27 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Nachum

obama is as big of a racist as holder or wright.

LLS


5 posted on 03/02/2011 4:48:25 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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Since Mr. Obama is not the descendant of slaves, how is this about him?
6 posted on 03/02/2011 4:49:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (All gave some, some gave all.)
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To: Hoodat
His only connection to the descendants of American slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them.

I know. Don't you love it!

Barack's ancestors sold Michelle's.

7 posted on 03/02/2011 4:50:20 PM PST by lonestar
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To: Nachum

Sounds like it’s beginning to dawn on 0bama that the president’s job is just wayyyyy too big for him.


8 posted on 03/02/2011 4:51:21 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Nachum

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.


9 posted on 03/02/2011 4:52:39 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Nachum

He and his AG are really doubling down on the race issue: Internal polls must be really sagging...


10 posted on 03/02/2011 4:52:39 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Nachum
Barack Hussein Obama is a RACIST Commie/Marxist piggy who shouldn't be running around calling Americans "racists". Stuff it piggy! Your race-baiting days are over Skippy! Americans are tired of that bull**** and aren't buying that bull**** anymore!
11 posted on 03/02/2011 4:52:58 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Just say NO to union greed!)
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To: Nachum

I did not know that stupid was now a race.


13 posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:01 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: Qbert

Will Hillary be the nominee?


14 posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (All gave some, some gave all.)
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To: Nachum

post race


15 posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:28 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Nachum

We have been trying to bury racism for years but somebody keeps digging it up.


16 posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:48 PM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: Nachum

He truly is an evil man.


17 posted on 03/02/2011 4:58:21 PM PST by comebacknewt
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To: Nachum

Riiiiight. You keep believing that 0bama.

Why Does the Tea Party Love Herman Cain? - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2682193/posts

Herman Cain wins Tea Party presidential live straw poll at Phoenix summit - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2680949/posts


18 posted on 03/02/2011 4:58:32 PM PST by justsaynomore ( "We the people are still in charge of this country!" - Herman Cain)
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To: Nachum
Adding to his woes what woes???? His destruction of this country is right on schedule.
19 posted on 03/02/2011 4:58:53 PM PST by ColdOne (AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
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To: Nachum

This man is either a liar or a lunatic.


20 posted on 03/02/2011 5:00:07 PM PST by fightinJAG (TAXPAYERS OF THE WORLD UNITE)
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