Posted on 09/19/2010 4:13:00 AM PDT by IbJensen
WASHINGTON,D.C. (AP)-President Barack Obama came out swinging against Republicans in a fiery campaign-season speech to black lawmakers Saturday night, making an urgent appeal for the kind of grassroots organizing that propelled the civil rights movement.
With the GOP hoping to regain power on Capitol Hill in the November election, Obama described his adversaries as "a crowd ... that wants to do what's right politically, instead of what's right — period." He never named the opposing party, referring to it as "the other side."
"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops, and beauty shops. Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now," Obama said in his remarks.
The first black president also said the recession had struck "with a particular vengeance on African-American communities" and he defended his approach to reviving the sour economy.
Members of "the other side," Obama said, "want to take us backward. We want to move America forward. In fact, they're betting that you'll come down with a case of amnesia. That you'll forget about what their agenda did to this country when they were in charge. Remember, these are the folks who spent almost a decade driving the economy into a ditch. And now they're asking for the keys back."
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Using 95% of American Negroes as Democrat Plantation Slaves.
Palen to white lawmakers rally the votes. See a problem?
As opposed to his 20 months?
Get them out of their quarters and out to the fields. It is harvest time at the polls. Get to work! Time to earn your living. Vote for a Democrat every two years. Worlds easiest job.
If that ain't the unregulated, crazed militia they're always accusing us of being, I'll lay down my gun.
And brother you KNOW THAT ain't happa'nin' !!!
I am sorry, Mr President, your words mean nothing anymore because the United States gave you a chance and your words did not match your deeds.
Only goes so far in Congressional elections, given how so many blacks are already in racially-gerrymandered districs.
They will be pie.
.” He never named the opposing party, referring to it as “the other side.”
Straight men?
Obozo, through his anti-presidency, has set back any gains made by America’s Negroes by decades.
When the voting statistics indicate that 95% support this tottering presidency of an anti-American, it’s bound to make the rest of us look with disdain on this reliable voting bloc.
nobama is such a feckless, pathetic, yet anti-American, President. To top it off he goes to a racially divisive group and sputters on about more community organizing. What a total FAIL he is. I bet Bo pisses on his leg today.
Meaningless anyway. They vote for the same candidates every time. Anyone from the caucus in real danger except from the courts?
“Rally” = “Dig up as many death certificates as possible and get those people registered to vote!”
He sounded like the Rev. Wright.
Like Hillary (”I ain’t nowhars near tahrd”) his delivery and accent changes with the crowd to whom he’s pontificating.
Yeah, he’s into “jive” talk more and more. I wonder if his white granny spoke that way? Or, how about all those “whitey” kids he went to school with?
“Obama to black lawmakers: Rally voters”
Totally racist thing for Obama to say!
Exactly.
A better analogy is that Obama drove the economy off the Chappaquiddick bridge and now he’s willing to let everybody else drown while he saves himself.
Freedom? Obama? LOL!
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