Posted on 11/10/2013 3:03:20 PM PST by Libloather
It’s an interesting dynamic. And apparently it goes both ways.
It’s not news that black politicians, particularly of the older sort, hate Obama. The Congressional Black Caucus nearly went all in for Hillary. Jesse Jackson talked about cutting off Obama’s nuts. No doubt much worse was said in private.
Some of this may be a personality clash between the old corrupt generation of black pols, the Charlie Rangel era, and the younger savvier Cory Bookers, like the one that played out in Newark. The Charlie Rangels think the Obamas and Bookers are too slick and too phony, that they don’t know how things really get done and that they’re little more than puppets of white bosses.
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Tell me that I didn't just agree with tax-cheat Charlie!
Hating... not to be confused with ‘not supporting’..
Plus, he’s on the down-low, and they ain’t behind that, no matter what anyone tells you.
Laugh at me if you will, but I strongly believe to right conservative could very well flip a sizable part of the black vote.
Somehow I doubt it.
Some of the most aggressive attacks on Obama have come from John Conyers.
>>Hating... not to be confused with ‘not supporting’..
I can see their point. The Obamas and Bookers talk about “the struggle” and other civil rights era things, but they’ve never lived in an America where there was a negro lunch counter or coloreds-only water fountains. They grew up in privilege, getting affirmative action quota preferences from birth and school lunch programs, etc. Obama/Booker/etc ride on the backs of civil rights pioneers who actually took risks to stand up for something. The Obama types never risked anything, but they talk as if they were fighting police dogs in Alabama with their bare hands.
But, that being said, blacks vote black and that’s the reality of things. Its a lesson the GOP needs to learn.
I agree. As someone who has taken it upon myself to reach out to the inner city people just to talk and listen, I can tell you that the sand is definitely shifting.
Doesn’t this make them racist? How dare they not bow to the Clown Prince nobama.
Doesn’t this make them racist? How dare they not bow to the Clown Prince nobama.
How Republicans can’t win in 2016 (”Must nominate a conservative who can attract...voters”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3089574/posts
Sizable may be a stretch, but I agree there are many fiscally conservative middle class blacks who could vote for the right conservative...even 10 to 15 % swing would be a death blow to any democrat running...
Chris Christie probably got a large percent of the black vote in NJ...
He's not my style of "conservative" but he proves it could be done...
The young corrupt generation of black pols.
And yet, NONE of these Democrat Plantation Overseers dare to step out into the public, out of fear of the backlash they helped to create.
Sorry if I find this rather ironic.
Chris Christie got 21% of the black vote and 51 % of the Hispanic vote...in the NJ election...
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/elections/2013/general/new-jersey/exit-polls.html
Mostly likely it will be someone we barely have heard of that succeeds at a state or lower office before moving to the national stage. Popman is also likely correct that middle class blacks will first act on a realization they are being purposely exploited.
“Charlie Rangel always struck me as too slick and too phony.”
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