[PapaBear3625]

Obama has just told the federal government "no more hiring of white, straight, males unless you can document that it was absolutely necessary". Earlier in the week, Maxine Waters effectively told him "Do something NOW about black unemployment, or we will ignore you in 2012.

He's getting increasingly desperate.

[GOPJ]

Obama’s vacationing in liberal elite land - Martha's Vineyard - where white people have plenty of money, eat at fine restaurants, walk on beautiful beaches, and eat expensive ice cream... Really, do they need jobs? I think NOT...

Best to give the jobs to Holder's people ...

[Dem Guard]

How about a ban on Presidential, or Agency “directives!!! Enough of this dictatorial rule. Where the hell is Congress and the SCOTUS on all of these????

[Rocky]

Every executive order, regulation, and law that have been issued, promulgated or passed since Obama took office needs to be revoked. Hit the reset button.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Hussein 0bama is determined to start a race war, and the more people that are out of work, the more likely it is to happen.

FUBO GTFO !

[RoosterRedux]

Obama's goal is two-fold.

First, stacking the Federal Gov with his people is a kind of redistribution and then, second, when anyone tries to cut Federal spending, he can scream "racism."

[A CA Guy]

Diversity would mirror the population.
To ME that would mean there would be about 11% blacks working in the Federal government and if it exceeded that you’d freeze their hiring until the population percentages matched the employee demographics.

I still think you just hire the best person for a job. I think we also shrink Federal employment way down to what it used to be as a percentage of the population back in the 60s, not the over 10% of population that it is today.

[nathanbedford]

As Obama's approval numbers began to move in the same direction as the employment numbers some months ago it was easy to forecast, as we did, that Obama, unable to run on his record, would mount a campaign of demagoguery with heavy emphasis on playing the race card.

He is now laying the predicate to accuse the Republicans of being racists if they dare oppose this blatant pandering to prefer one race over others or, more precisely, to prefer all races over one. Not incidentally, we see him also now laying the predicate to accuse the Republicans of racism against Hispanics if they oppose his new amnesty regime.

On the economic front he is doing the same with his forthcoming recovery plan. It does not matter that his recovery plan has been tried to the tune of trillions of dollars and failed. It does not matter that he is attacking a strawman when he alleges by inference discrimination in the government' s hiring practices. It matters only that he will assume the high ground and those who attack that position will be vilified in the media.

Nathan Bedford's first maximum of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

[AD from SpringBay]

More about race - the election of 2012 will be the race elections - it is all Obama has to run on.

[Kenton]

The whole premise behind this is such a blatant lie that it's almost funny. Government employees are already the most "diverse" group of people in the workforce.

Nah, he's trying to get back those stray black voters who've wandered off the plantation in plenty of time for his 2011 campaign.

[Tzimisce]

Jim Crow now goes by Affirmative Action.

[NonValueAdded]

What I Did On My Summer Vacation: day two

[molson209]

Ya ,LOL ,signed this and then ran off on vacation to hide, LOL , wonder what else he signed that never made it to press yet

[NonValueAdded]

And the thing is even if the order is rescinded by the next president, those employees are forever.

[darkwing104]

Isn't that special...

[firebrand]

A recent post on a Jesse Lee Peterson thread on Facebook asked whether there wasn’t some way jobs could be provided for black people without providing them for anyone else. Looks like the pussident found a way.

[isthisnickcool]

The irony of this EO is off the hook....

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Interesting, as most people look at this latest move in terms of jobs. Do not forget this means the "Diverse Ones" will be implementing any laws whether they be unwritten, written or customary. "Holder's People" are in charge. They have the bomb and the keys to Ft. Knox.

Who will be the winners and who will be the losers?

[Bon mots]

Blacks make up some 17% of the Federal workforce already, but comprise just under 13% of the population.

Is he going to fire 4% of these overpaid sloths?

[what's up]

Correct. As soon as I saw this story I knew the directive was a response to Maxine.

[Always Independent]

SO now white men are put on a quota system. This sounds illegal to me.