[Mr. Mojo]

....American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community.

Any criticism directed at anyone other than "whitey" angers these these race pimps and shakedown artists to no end. It's bad for business.

[SierraWasp]

Hi George. I'm glad you found and posted this about the victimhood pimps from the Grievance Industry!!!

They're just scared too death they could possible be put out of business like they should have been when Clarence Thomas was confirmed, Colon Powell and Condoleza Rice both became Secretary's of State!!!

I respect the two Drs. Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams far more than the two Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!!!

Even in today's world where the default is liberalism, there are more and more minorities understanding the liberty and freedom induction of conservatism's core principles!!!

[DGHoodini]

Democrats...The Party of Lowered Expectations.

[Sender]

“smacked of calculated political expediency” Hello? While not in any way endorsing Obama’s campaign, speaking of the dearth of black fatherhood is not some calculation to woo the white vote. All those yutes shooting each other in Killadelphia and Shivcargo are probably wild yutes without fathers. They don’t even have Rev’rund Wright’s church upbringing. You can play the race card, but you can’t deny the truth. Bill Cosby is genuine in addressing this; Obama is somewhat less so.

[smedley64]

This is what happens when you allow an entire segment of the population to believe that any honest criticism of their community is "racist," no matter how honest the criticism is, or how real the problem.

This is also what happens when a candidate is nothing more than a pandering phoney.

Guys like Cosby and Obama are correct to point out the problems in the black community, but the black community is correct to point out that Obama is merely pandering to whites, unless his words are born of a genuine concern to correct the problems.

Obama has been involved in politics for how long now? And how long has he been crusading about the need for black fathers to assume responsibility for their children? Maybe I'm wrong and it's been a staple of his politics, but if it hasn't been, then he's late to the party and is only trying to secure white votes by giving lipservice to it now. I'd love to know what his history is on the topic, as far as past rhetoric goes. If it's a recent "awakening" for him, then like everything else, he's just being politically expedient, which seems to be the only "truth" he really knows. When Cosby spoke out about it, he endured the criticism, but it came from his heart. He obviously wasn't running for office. He was sincere. Obama? Maybe not so much, and if that's the case, then he is right to be criticized for his pandering, regardless of who is criticizing him for it. "White folks greed runs a world in need" doesn't sound to me like he was big on preaching personal responsibility until now. I'd love to be proven wrong though, and learn that it's been a staple of his political life for a long time. If that's the case, then he's right to keep pointing it out regardless of who he offends. How much did he preach about responsibility when he was a vaunted "community organizer," or State Senator, or Senator? His own mother and father abandoned him. Did he preach personal responsibility in either of his books?

[beezdotcom]

Obama aides rejected the comparison, and the candidate himself, in his 2006 book "The Audacity of Hope," called Clinton's attack "clumsy and transparent."

...while Obama considers his OWN attack as "conniving and Machiavellian", no doubt...

[Razz Barry]

Walters said that "we're not electing him to be preacher in chief," and that Obama needs to give more speeches about how he would help black communities.

This, IMHO, is an example of the "nation of whiners" Gramm spoke of. Walters, like so many in the black community, doesn't seem to understand that what Obama said was to "help black communities". If they would take his advise the whole country would be helped.

[wardaddy]

The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community.

the irony here is thick.

Jackson has illegitimate kids ..like many so called black leaders.

Obama had a slacker absent dad who abandoned him.

no wonder Jackson and a lot of black men take umbrage at Obama's talk on this....many of them are guilty of it.

This is a clock moment with Obama for me.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“calculated political expediency”

who?

Obama?

Say it ain’t so! LOL

[syriacus]

Obama's lucky he isn't being treated by the press the same way that Dan Quayle was when he suggested it's a good idea to have a father in the picture.

Even Hillary attacked Quayle when she

panned him as typical of "an Administration out of touch with America" and its growing ranks of single mothers.