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Tavis Smiley To Obama: Blacks "Ought To Be Looked Out For" (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | September 15, 2011 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 09/15/2011 9:12:10 PM PDT by i88schwartz

Tavis Smiley says the President is ignoring blacks, the "most loyal" part of his base who "ought to be looked out for." Smiley spoke to NBC's Lester Holt. In April, Smiley said the 2012 elections will be "the most racist in the history of this Republic.

"It's just not that black folks are hurting the most now. It's that there's no sign that it's going to get any better. There really are two questions in black America, I think, Lester, have to wrestle with. At least two questions. Number one: what is the pain threshold in black America? What is our pain threshold, number one. And number two, what is the presidency really worth? Is it worth not saying anything? Is it worth being silent when you're catching the most hell, when you're suffering the most pain? Especially, when you're the most loyal part of the President's base," Smiley said.

"That's not hating on the President, it's defending your own flanks. And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils? If anybody ought to be looked out for, it ought to be the persons who represent the most significant and the most loyal part of the base. That would be African-Americans."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; blacks; tavissmiley
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1 posted on 09/15/2011 9:12:16 PM PDT by i88schwartz
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To: i88schwartz

I know that Blacks are “Holder’s people.” But, who are Smiley’s people?” :0)


2 posted on 09/15/2011 9:15:15 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: i88schwartz

The unpresidential presidency just keeps the whining machine in full pitch banshee girl squeal.


3 posted on 09/15/2011 9:15:35 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: i88schwartz

Perhaps the reason black people are “hurting” Smiley is because of Barak Obama and his progressive predecessors. That’s a thought you just might consider having. Just sayin’.


4 posted on 09/15/2011 9:16:50 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: i88schwartz

The soft bigotry of low expectations.


5 posted on 09/15/2011 9:21:37 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Cowboy Bob
I know that Blacks are “Holder’s people.” But, who are Smiley’s people?” :0)

WIN! Smiley is a battlin' anti-communist!
6 posted on 09/15/2011 9:26:45 PM PDT by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: i88schwartz

Sorry, I have no idea of what he is talking about.

Moving on....


7 posted on 09/15/2011 9:27:04 PM PDT by super7man
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To: i88schwartz
For all the problems Blacks create, it's hard to believe that they're only 12.9% of the population.

Problems = 43% of all crimes in the US.

8 posted on 09/15/2011 9:27:54 PM PDT by blam
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To: Cowboy Bob
I know that Blacks are “Holder’s people.” But, who are Smiley’s people?” :0)


9 posted on 09/15/2011 9:31:00 PM PDT by blam
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To: i88schwartz

Because tavis feels they are inferior.


10 posted on 09/15/2011 9:33:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Democrats are violent. Prisons are overflowing with democrats convicted of violent crimes.)
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To: i88schwartz
And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils? If anybody ought to be looked out for, it ought to be the persons who represent the most significant and the most loyal part of the base.

This translates, more or less, to looting the treasury to benefit your friends. Right out of a South American banana republic, or a Mafia family. I do love the euphemism "looked out for."

11 posted on 09/15/2011 9:34:01 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
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To: i88schwartz

It has always amazed me how these Poverty Pimps, to use Walter Williams phrase, continue to make money off white guilt while promoting programs that thounsands of years of human history have shown just don’t work.


12 posted on 09/15/2011 9:37:25 PM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: i88schwartz

Tavis is a throwback racist, as rotten as vulture vomit, as dumb as a rock and as crooked as a dog’s hind leg with doggy diahrrea running down it.


13 posted on 09/15/2011 9:42:42 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name.)
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OMG, he actually said “To the victor goes the spoils” in referring to black people because Obama is President?

Well, he's only half black, I'm white like his other half, so where are my half of the spoils?

14 posted on 09/15/2011 9:46:00 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: i88schwartz
Democrats "looking out for" blacks:


15 posted on 09/15/2011 9:47:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MacMattico

The condition of the Black community will improve only when they understand that they have to look out for themselves, not be looked out for.


16 posted on 09/15/2011 9:52:04 PM PDT by p. henry
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To: i88schwartz

It would be nice if Obama had at least concentrated on African Americans employment, at least one sector would be doing well, instead everyone is F#####d.


17 posted on 09/15/2011 9:54:43 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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Tavis: “And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils?”

Poor Tavis is yet to realize Barry and Michele consumed all the spoils, for themselves.

There ain’t gonna be much left when they are done Tavis. So get your ass in the soup lines with the rest of us. And, before I forget, thank you and the rest of his base for giving us this marxist.


18 posted on 09/15/2011 10:02:55 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Constitutional Conservatism is Americanism.)
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Tavis: “And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils?”

Only a delusional ignoramus loser would spout garbage like that.

19 posted on 09/15/2011 10:10:13 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name.)
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To: MacMattico
"OMG, he actually said “To the victor goes the spoils” in referring to black people because Obama is President?"

Well, if the blacks want their spoiled president, they are more than welcome to him AFAIC.

20 posted on 09/15/2011 10:12:09 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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