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Many prodding Obama to ‘go black’(BETTER IDEA: HELP GET THE ECONOMY MOVING AGAIN)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Dec 5, 2010 07:49PM | Laura washington LauraSWashington@aol.com

Posted on 12/06/2010 10:59:09 AM PST by Chi-townChief

Is it time for President Obama to “go black” on his opponents? Time to put his hand on his hips, and let it rip? That’s what I am hearing from liberal friends and political activists. Get some backbone, Mr. President. Don’t let the Republicans push you around. Get mad, then get even.

Democratic loyalists saw their party lose big time in the midterm elections. They are teed off and want the sparks to fly. Obama fought the election with one hand tied behind his back, and a low dose of enthusiasm and testosterone. Now, the lame-duck congressional session is a splendid opportunity for Obama to make up for lost ground.

He will have a congressional majority for only a few more weeks. The Democratic base wants him to pick up his agenda. They want some movement on the New Start treaty, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the offshore drilling ban and tax cuts. These are the issues that will get liberal Democratic voters cheering again.

For example, Evanston-based Democrat U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has dug in her high heels in the raging congressional debate about deficit reduction. Schakowsky serves on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a panel Obama created to devise ways to trim the federal budget and curb the nation’s skyrocketing deficit. Schakowsky refused to sign off on the final report. The proposals do not attack the “growing disparity” between the incomes of the rich, poor and middle class, she recently told Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet. The plan will not “get money into people’s pockets.”

Meanwhile, Obama needs to get tough on the rich, goes the liberal mantra. The long-term tax cuts for people earning a million dollars or more sticks deep in the craw of the lefties. They plead: How can the president let unemployment benefits lapse yet extend tax cuts for millionaires? The heat is on.

David Axelrod is the presidential adviser who prides himself on letting no opportunity slide by to say nothing. Yet even Axelrod could not restrain himself on this issue.

On Tuesday, when Axelrod appeared on the PBS NewsHour, interviewer Judy Woodruff asked, “We know the president would prefer that [tax cuts] not be extended for the wealthy. But if the Republicans insist on that, is he prepared to go along with it?” Axelrod responded: “Well, look, the president’s position is very clear. He thinks there ought to be a permanent tax cut for the middle class. The middle class had had a — not just difficult time in this recession, but it’s been battered through the last decade, where incomes have actually declined, while incomes at the top have actually — have grown exponentially. So that makes sense. What he’s also said is that we can’t afford a permanent tax cut for the wealthy.”

Woodruff pushed him: “Is there give, is what I’m asking.” Axelrod replied: “Not on those issues.”

The liberal voters who helped put Obama in office are craving some red meat. Maybe they would like to see a little more “Medea” in the White House. That’s Medea, Tyler Perry’s brassy, bossy, larger-than-life character who knows what she wants — and gets it. Medea does not play.

Memo to the liberals: It’s not Medea time. Obama is no angry black man. You elected Obama because he is a cautious, cerebral pragmatist. He always opts for the head, not the gut.

At this crucial moment in the negotiations with his Republican opposition, that’s a good thing. He is not letting anyone look at his cards. Meanwhile, he’s looking ahead to 2012.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; 2012; liberal; race
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To: Chi-townChief

when are these idiots going to realize that olbablo does not care about them or their issues. he does not care about anything except his own advancement. he got the highest office, he won, he loves the perks but has no interest in the actual job. and he does not care if anyone else gets re-elected, gets a job, gets anything from his election to the white house. oblabo is all about himself and nothing else. no one else matters. these people need to understand that and stop expecting him to “get mad and go black”. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR ISSUES, PEOPLE, SO GET OVER IT.


41 posted on 12/06/2010 12:15:36 PM PST by madamemayhem (defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Who are they kidding? Hussein will always never have a large dose of testosterone...”

He is a Coward and a punk.


42 posted on 12/06/2010 12:30:17 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Chi-townChief

43 posted on 12/06/2010 12:42:09 PM PST by Iron Munro (This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
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To: utahagen
Liberals are by nature effete.

They equate black with masculinity and threaten to sic 'their' black people on their enemies like a high school girl threatens to have her boyfriend beat up other guys who irritate her.

44 posted on 12/06/2010 12:58:06 PM PST by skeeter
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To: MissNomer

“Why does his (Oblama’s) jersey say 23 in one picture and 25 in another?”

That’s his IQ.

23 was before he learned that water is WET.


45 posted on 12/06/2010 1:15:15 PM PST by Levante
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To: Chi-townChief

moonbat wigout bump for later.......


46 posted on 12/06/2010 1:21:07 PM PST by indthkr
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To: skeeter

Didn’t Sandra Bernhard state something about hoping Sarah Palin got gang raped by a bunch of blacks in Manhattan?


47 posted on 12/06/2010 1:22:14 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: scott7278
What does “go black” even mean? Talk about racist!

I don't know what it means but it sounds racist to me as well.

48 posted on 12/06/2010 1:24:58 PM PST by newzjunkey (expired "Bush tax cut" = Obama Tax Increase)
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To: MrB
She did.

Michael Moore once wondered aloud if it would've been better if black males had been aboard those hijacked airliners on 9/11. Presumably because THEY wouldn't have meekly been led to the slaughter.

49 posted on 12/06/2010 1:35:08 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Chi-townChief

50 posted on 12/06/2010 1:37:43 PM PST by P.O.E. (Compact Theory)
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To: skeeter

Michael Moore once wondered aloud if it would’ve been better if black males had been aboard those hijacked airliners on 9/11. Presumably because THEY wouldn’t have meekly been led to the slaughter.

To which some smart-aleck comic would likely say that the terrorists would just have announced that there would be some cold Colt 45 40’s and government checks waiting for them back at the terminal when they landed....but I won’t say that...because saying that would be racist....


51 posted on 12/06/2010 1:45:04 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Chi-townChief
Where do those stupid liberals think he picked up some black swagger? Hawaii? Indonesia?

They really have no clue who this guy really is!

52 posted on 12/06/2010 2:21:34 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: spodefly

I think they are really trying to provoke “Cooter” into “going white”, they want an excuse to take away the little bit of freedom we have left but if “Cooter” ever has a flashback and goes crazy it may not be possible to put the cat back in the bag.


53 posted on 12/06/2010 3:10:07 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: Nervous Tick

LOL EXACTLY.


54 posted on 12/06/2010 4:28:20 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Chi-townChief

This is classic liberalism/leftism. When your train-wreck policies have bought about the expected disaster, start shouting and screaming and hurling blame and invective all around. Yup. Brilliant strategy. Works all the time.


55 posted on 12/06/2010 6:33:16 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Clock King

Well, if Barry lets it rip, he just might be able to blow his head out of his butt.


56 posted on 12/06/2010 6:48:29 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

Go black? So Dems want Obama to eat fried chicken and chitlins?

After all, going ‘black’ involves a stereotype. The stereotypical ‘black’.

Talk about racist...


57 posted on 12/07/2010 4:49:50 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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