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This Black Former NFL Star Has a Plan to Take Down Obama August 16, 2014 Although President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder like to paint disagreement with this president’s positions and policies as racist, increasing opposition to the president’s agenda from blacks calls those claims into serious question. Talk show host Larry Elder has argued that Obama’s withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq was premature and not well thought out. Reverend Billy Owens called Obama “the most immoral president we’ve ever had.” And Georgia Congressman David Scott, a Democrat, has said that he has been “very disappointed”...

President Barack Obama has not served African Americans well, according to Garry Cobb, a former linebacker for the Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys and current GOP candidate for a House seat out of New Jersey. "We have to do better, we've got to do much better than that and I don't think he's done a good job,'' Cobb said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "You can see that African Americans are not doing well. You talk about … minimum wage. Minimum wage goes after young African American kids because it doesn't let them in...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Former Eagles linebacker Garry Cobb will run for Congress in South Jersey, seeking the seat soon to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D., N.J.), according to a report on WHYY's Web site Newsworks.</p> <p>Camden County Republican Chairman Thomas Booth told the site that Cobb plans to run.</p>