Posted on 10/11/2010 12:18:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PHILADELPHIA The White House has hesitated to cast the midterm elections as a referendum on President Barack Obama, except when it comes to one key constituency: African-American voters.
As Obama has steadily increased his outreach to African American voters over the past month. With interviews and campaign stops targeted at the black community our community, as the president likes to say he has sent a clear signal that this election is about him and his record.
Two years ago you defied the conventional wisdom in Washington, Obama told thousands of screaming supporters Sunday at a campaign rally in a predominantly black area of Philadelphia. They said, No you cant.
No you cant elect a skinny guy with a funny game to the presidency of the United States, he added. Whatd you say?
Yes we can! the crowd, waving VOTE 2010 signs featuring the Obama 2008 campaign logo, replied.
His voice hoarse, the president pleaded with the Philadelphia audience to defy Washington conventional wisdom again. Head to your beauty shops and your barber shops, and spread the word, he said. But most of all, he said, head to the polls three weeks from now, even though he is not on the ticket.
They think, Oh Obamas names not on the ballot, maybe theyre not going to turn out, he said. Youve got to prove them wrong.
The message echoed the one Obama delivered last week at a historically black college in Maryland. Dont make me look bad, now, he said, urging the mostly African-American audience to vote.
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Good point.
These ingrates don’t see what they have, they only see what they don’t have and what others have earned.
Actually, that 43.75% Arab bit came from Kenneth Lamb, not Richard Cohen. IMO, Lamb doesn’t strick me as a reputable source. He never offered evidence for his allegations, and when FReeper Beckwith asked for some several times, Lamb never answered him.
I’m reminded of a passage from David Freddoso’s excellent book “The case against Barack Obama”. “Too many of those criticizing Obama have been content merely to slander him,” he writes. False rumors about Obama’s religion and ancestry have produced, Freddoso writes, “an intellectual laziness among the very people who should be carefully scrutinizing Obama.” He writes that the viral and overt smears have allowed Obama to evade substantive criticism.
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