Posted on 08/17/2011 2:31:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Maxine Waters: Why isn't Obama in black communities?
By Brian Montopoli
Democrats Rep. Maxine Waters of California, a central member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Tuesday that "we don't know why" President Obama is not visiting black communities on his Midwestern bus tour, adding, "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired."
Waters, speaking at a freewheeling forum at Detroit's Wayne County Community College, suggested members of the CBC don't pressure Mr. Obama because their constituents are proud to have an African-American president, adding that "if we go after the president too hard, you're going after us."
"The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president, too," she went on to say. "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired. We're getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he's prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is. We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community. We don't know that."
The unemployment rate for African-Americans as of July was 15.9 percent, and it's significantly higher in Detroit. Waters told her audience Tuesday that when you "unleash us and you tell us you're ready to have this conversation, we're ready to have the conversation."
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because they will steal the tires off his bus?
Because his campaign can not accept the Bridge card for campaign donations.
Note to Maxine:
Even if that multi-million dollar bus were stopped for only 5 minutes & surrounded by Secret Service in Watts-—YOUR DISTRICT— it would be up on cement blocks & the wheels & tires gone in less than 2 minutes.
Then the rest of the pillaging would begin.
There is no reason to be in black communities.
The “black” farmers are all down south. NObama has to find that list of those who sued the Federal Government & the taxpayers to get a ‘bigger piece of the pie”.
He prefers arugula to collard greens.
thx. same reason he isn’t campaigning in cemetaries too....
Why ever would Obama do that Maxine? If he did you might run away from the DemocRAT plantation. Then where would he be?
Maxine, dear you have to realize that you are still slaves for the plantation owner. Keep chopping that political cotton, honey. That's what you are there for.
Simon Legree call home. Little Liza is trying to escape acros the ice.
Flash Mobs of Holder’s people?
Because the rascists will vote for him based solely on his skin color.
cause he’s embarrassed by the way ya’ll act.... maybe?
Is he smarter than any 5th grader anywhere?
Barack Obama doesn't care about black people
Anyone seen Kanye West?
And probably find a way to break into the bus. Remember Nancy Pelosi and Cos stroll through our side. They wouldn’t dare try that with their side.
LOL Gotta sit with the white folk now. It’s election time.
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Because he isn’t black? His mother was white. How can he be black?
“Maxine Waters: Why isn’t Obama in black communities?”
Because Obama can’t turn food stamps of the dependent class into instant campaign cash that’s why.
If I could, I would make that into a postcard and send it to every black democrat in America.
LOL
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