Posted on 08/13/2011 12:56:05 PM PDT by Libloather
PBS Hosts Blast Obama on Poverty Tour
By Stephanie Samuel | Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Aug. 12 2011 10:23 AM EDT
PBS hosts Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, once strong supporters of Barack Obama, are traveling the country criticizing the president for failing to protect the poor during the debt talks. Noted African-American evangelical Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. agrees that the president has done little to help the poor, but says systemic changes, not more wasteful spending, are necessary to lift Americans out of poverty.
Radio and television hosts Smiley and his PBS Princeton University co-host West, have taken to the road on a 16-city "Poverty Tour." The tour stops at various towns and highlights the plights of the poor while blasting the president for his failed leadership.
During his Wednesday stop in the nation's capital, West told ABC News that President Obama should assert his authority more in order to help the downtrodden.
"I think too often [the president] compromises, too often he capitulates. I think the Republicans know that. I think they laugh when he's not around," shared Smiley.
The political duo noted that more middle-income Americans are falling into poverty, and Obama, they lament, never talks about the issue of poverty.
West told ABC that Martin Luther King, Jr. paved the way for Obama's presidency.
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“Nothing to laugh at”? I disagree. Public ridicule of these race-baiting buffoons is the best way of exposing them, which is why their only defense is to yell “Racist!”
I’m not sure they had any specific “mission” other than patroling the desert. None of them seemed to have any idea where they were after the officer was killed, anyway.
It is true though... I really expected Obama to come out with some new Johnsonesque plan to deal with the poor or at the very least put a spotlight on the issues facing poor blacks. Not a peep... I guess Clinton remains the first black president.
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