Posted on 08/16/2012 8:53:48 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
CHICAGO — He still walks the same streets here as his old acquaintance Barack Obama once did. That is about all they have in common anymore. At 50, Chicago activist Mark Allen lives with his parents, barely able to pay his bills. The head of a small, community-assistance organization called Black Wall Street Chicago, Allen regards his personal survival alone as a small victory, grateful he can pay the rent on his modest office space, aware he is doing better than many on this city’s restive South Side.
“Things haven’t gone the way we’d hoped after Barack got elected,” he says. Surveys place unemployment rates above 25 percent here, and indications are that South Side residents such as Allen aren’t nearly as passionate about the 2012 election as they were during Obama’s trailblazing 2008 campaign.
Historically, community organizers such as Allen have wielded outsize influence in the black-majority neighborhoods of the South Side, with none better known than Obama, who directed a group called the Developing Communities Project for three years during the 1980s. But old bonds between the two have frayed. Allen, who as a member of another group worked on community issues with Obama during their organizing days, has grown frustrated with his former ally in the Oval Office.
Obama’s much ballyhooed 2009 stimulus package has failed to touch ordinary South Side residents, says Allen, who has reached out to Obama administration officials, including fellow Chicagoan and prominent White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, to express his dismay. He wants red tape cut, and he wants to see more business loans for the area and more jobs for local residents on construction and infrastructure projects.
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You've been hoodwinked.
Yo Mark!
Obama aint down with the struggle!
He’s a superstar now, you been PWNED!
Wake up and smell the plantation BS.
You know whats pathetic Mark?
Obama and Biden have you begging to put de chains on.
Just hang in there Mark. After he’s done paying off his donors from 2008, he’ll get to you. Oh wait, then he’ll have to pay off his 2012 donors. Then he’ll get to you. Or maybe, just maybe, he really doesn’t really give a damn about the little guy Mark.
The disillusionment of once fierce Obama admirers, he suggests, may hamper the president’s reelection chances by subtly dampening black voter turnout.
“His people should’ve done something more about it by now,” he says. “But that’s Barack’s problem, not mine.”
His people should have done something more about it.
I agree Mark, I agree.
Stop your belly aching.
If you didn’t have your hand out maybe your trousers wouldn’t be falling down.
"He's just a kid!"
, bamboozled and okie dokied.
0bama is a Marxist 0re0.
“I need some work,” Shorty says, explaining that he has been doing odd jobs, lawn work and landscaping mostly.
Been there done that.
I get scads of Hispanic and White folks looking for yard work in the past few years.
Never seen Shorty or Mike around.
Just telling it the way it is.
Flim Flammed, Conned...Snookered..
” - - - “Things haven’t gone the way we’d hoped after Barack got elected,” he says.”
Duh - - - .
You want business loans? But people don’t build their own businesses, the government does!
Obama doesn’t want you having a successful business. That would make you independent. That would make you financially able to help your neighbors. He wants you and them on welfare, dependent, stuck on the Democrat plantation.
I hear the jackass shuffling the cards and I hear his sing songy speech cadence.
But I also hear him saying those nasty Republicans haven’t come up with one idea...
Like emancipation, The Equal rights amendment..
Blah Blah Blah...
Obama is a populist Charlatan and Huckster, and he is killing US ALL, While he get’s RICH.
It’s sad that Mr. Allen and others like him aren’t more upset about WHY they are in such deep trouble... They aren’t upset that Obama has taken away the rights of so many people, they aren’t upset that the money for stimulus was so horribly mis-managed, and went straight to foreign countries. They are upset because it didn’t go straight to THEM... Like I said, it’s sad because they are still missing the big picture - no-one is EVER going to be able to raise people up through the government, and no-one ever got anywhere good by relying on the government solely for improvement in their lives...
I’ll say this for the BS’er, he knows how to BS.
He has all the little homey stuff going on, and all the subliminal BS too.
“We want to put America in “D”, They want to put it in “R”
Is America really this stupid?
Mismanaged?
It was flat out STOLEN!
“Things haven’t gone the way we’d hoped after Barack got elected,” he says.
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You’ve been bamboozled, ‘bro’. He lets his blood brother die by the millimeter in a tin shack, and you thought he would do something for you? I pity the foo’!
he will probably vote for obama anyway.
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