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Maxine Waters: Why isn't Obama in black communities?
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Posted on 08/17/2011 2:31:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Maxine Waters: Why isn't Obama in black communities?

By Brian Montopoli

Democrats Rep. Maxine Waters of California, a central member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Tuesday that "we don't know why" President Obama is not visiting black communities on his Midwestern bus tour, adding, "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired."

Waters, speaking at a freewheeling forum at Detroit's Wayne County Community College, suggested members of the CBC don't pressure Mr. Obama because their constituents are proud to have an African-American president, adding that "if we go after the president too hard, you're going after us."

"The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president, too," she went on to say. "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired. We're getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he's prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is. We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community. We don't know that."

The unemployment rate for African-Americans as of July was 15.9 percent, and it's significantly higher in Detroit. Waters told her audience Tuesday that when you "unleash us and you tell us you're ready to have this conversation, we're ready to have the conversation."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbc; maxinewaters; obama; obamanomics
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To: Sub-Driver

BINGO

he already has the black vote committed. He needs cash.


21 posted on 08/17/2011 2:51:58 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Sub-Driver

Maxine, Maxine... O, ye of little faith. Know ye not that God is everywhere? Why, then, should Obama do less? The bird has her nest. The cow has its cud. The junkie has his line. And the faithful people have their lame beyond words dependence on taxpayers. The world is in order.


22 posted on 08/17/2011 2:53:51 PM PDT by Tax Government (Democrat: "I'm driving to Socialism at 95 mph." Republican: "Observe the speed limit.")
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To: Sub-Driver

He has those communities’ votes locked up, and he doesn’t know where they are, anyway....


23 posted on 08/17/2011 2:56:30 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Sub-Driver
Maxine, he "ain't" black.


24 posted on 08/17/2011 2:58:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Typical Obama. Suck up to your enemies, kick your friends in the butt. Other groups due to be thrown under the bus:
The elderly
Labor Unions
Latinos

Must be something psychological, in addition to calculations they have no place else to go.


25 posted on 08/17/2011 2:59:30 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Sub-Driver

Say there Maxine-—aren’t you being delayed for your ‘hot waters’ Congressional ethics hearing? Brotha Bam can speed up the process if you don’t stay bamboozled on the Chosen Zero’s plantation. He’s half white dontchyaknow..../sc


26 posted on 08/17/2011 3:00:23 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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To: Sub-Driver

Because he already has your vote?

Exactly .


27 posted on 08/17/2011 3:00:56 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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To: Sub-Driver

cuz he’s scared sh@tless?


28 posted on 08/17/2011 3:01:50 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Sub-Driver

He just got new spinners on the bus and wants to keep them - Al Sharpton


29 posted on 08/17/2011 3:03:07 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought ("The proposition that the government is always right is manifested either in corruption or benefits)
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To: Grampa Dave

30 posted on 08/17/2011 3:03:11 PM PDT by Bean Counter ("For every man there exists a bait he cannot resist swallowing.".....Nietzsche)
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To: sappy
cause he already has 95% of that vote

My vote for post of the day !!!

31 posted on 08/17/2011 3:06:15 PM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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To: Sub-Driver

The media is afraid to go there.


32 posted on 08/17/2011 3:08:12 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take?)
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To: Sub-Driver

I agree with Kerosene Maxine for once. Obama needs to take those buses through black neighborhoods. The whole excuse for charging these buses to the taxpayer was that they were more secure than a typical rented bus including, I presume, bulletproofing. So, how are you going to test the bulletproofing if you don’t take it through some black neighborhoods where they have drive-bys?

Of course, the buses will have a few layers of graffiti if he makes any stops and a few of the tires could get lifted...


33 posted on 08/17/2011 3:15:04 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why...

BWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAA


34 posted on 08/17/2011 3:21:16 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why...

BWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAA


35 posted on 08/17/2011 3:21:25 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Damnit, Joe, 1.1 million dollars for a bus and there’s no toilet paper in the bathroom! Give me your shirt. You always said you’d give me the shirt off your back. Now’s the time to pony up. I’ll give it back to you when I’m done.”


36 posted on 08/17/2011 3:23:21 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Sub-Driver

Congressional Black Caucus= Congressional Flash Mob. Stock in trade is shoplifting through legislation


37 posted on 08/17/2011 3:23:55 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Sub-Driver

Same reason you aren’t in prison, Miss Loud Mouth Soup Waters.


38 posted on 08/17/2011 3:24:29 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver
“We don't know why...” my a$$. It's because he knows the black community will vote 97% for his sorry excuse as President again. He don't have to win their vote, Maxine, you dunderhead. For God's sake woman, use your brain for something more than keeping your ears warm on the inside. He is trying to appeal to all the Independents, formerly known as Moderates, who will wind up voting for him anyway. On Saturday or Sunday before the election at a black church, he will play the race card using his very best black preacher's impersonation. And those dammed fools will continue a lifelong tradition of believing that the DemocRat party will save them once again. They never go back and see that they are in worse shape now as a community and a minority than they were BEFORE Johnson's Great Society. Truly a sad commentary on the average American of African descent.
39 posted on 08/17/2011 3:25:44 PM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This black nitwit is pissed because her King hasn’t handed millions from his stash to her beloved people.


40 posted on 08/17/2011 3:26:17 PM PDT by Logical me
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