CBC Chairman Suggests Obama May Get a Pass From Black Community

The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 | Sean Sullivan

[kristinn]

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) suggested in an interview that black voters are more lenient when it comes to evaluating President Obama’s policies because he is also black.

“Well, I’m supposed to say he doesn’t get a pass, but I’m not going to say that,” Cleaver said in an interview with The Root published Monday. “Look, as the chair of the Black Caucus I’ve got to tell you, we are always hesitant to criticize the president. With 14 percent [black] unemployment if we had a white president we’d be marching around the White House...

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Cleaver supported then-senator Hillary Clinton of New York over Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. He was asked how a Clinton presidency would have been different from Obama’s tenure.

“Well, we wouldn’t have had a lot of racial stuff, and as much as I love Sen. Clinton I would have been all over her on 14 percent unemployment for African Americans. I would have said, ‘My sister, I love you, but this has got to go,’” he said.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks kristinn.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/47percent/index

[SuziQ]

I have an acquaintance who works in the medical field and recently she has had three black nurses ask her how to vote Republican... they only knew how to vote straight Democrat.

I hope she explained it to them!

[jmaroneps37]

He can suggest all he wants but there will be no “pass” from the Black community. He on his way to getting 85% of ten points less Black turn out.