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Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight
Yahoo News ^ | 25 Sep 2011 | Mark Smith

Posted on 09/26/2011 5:32:51 AM PDT by Rummyfan

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.

And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.

Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.

"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side.

"I need your help," Obama said.

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1 posted on 09/26/2011 5:32:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah, I mean, it’s not like the black community is experiencing 17% unemployment. It’s only 16.7%. Hep a brutha out, will ya?


2 posted on 09/26/2011 5:35:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Rummyfan

Black leaders must be kicking themselves in private. “We worked so hard and so long for THIS?”


3 posted on 09/26/2011 5:35:46 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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4 posted on 09/26/2011 5:35:50 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: Rummyfan
He pissed many black people off with his paternalism. Even as he said that rich people should pay the Jew tax rate.
5 posted on 09/26/2011 5:36:09 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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Marching and protesting don’t put groceries on the table.
Marching and protesting don’t put gas in the car.
Marching and protesting don’t put a roof over your head.
Marching and protesting don’t put money in your bank account.
Marching and protesting don’t put crack in your pipe...........


6 posted on 09/26/2011 5:36:24 AM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Rummyfan

It sounded like he was attempting to start a riot.


7 posted on 09/26/2011 5:36:27 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Stepan12

They’re still lookin’ for that one big “0bama check” that they promised themselves when he was elected.

“Where’s muh check? When y’all gonna come thru?”


8 posted on 09/26/2011 5:38:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Rummyfan

Anyone else notice our “president” is sounding more and more like a cross between Jeremiah Wright and Foghorn Leghorn?


9 posted on 09/26/2011 5:40:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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I watched some of this speech. It was totally embarrassing.

Obama just pours on trying to sound authentically black. OMG, such a fail. I was laughing, but at the same time, I don’t know how black people can sit and listen to this mutt who just uses them for votes.

Obama is a commie first, he cares little for black folks.

He was just scolding and whipping them in line like the slavemeister we know he is.


10 posted on 09/26/2011 5:40:23 AM PDT by dforest
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I think it was the most insulting speech he has ever made...”Take off you bedroom slippers”???????? WTF???? Talk about stereotyping...If I were in that audience and he referred to me that way I would be MORE than incensed. Is he implying that these people are sitting in front of their TV’s all day in bathrobes, watching daytime soaps and eating bonbons?


11 posted on 09/26/2011 5:40:23 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

Some might call this reporter racist for writing such a thing. After all, if the phrase "black cloud" is off limits...

12 posted on 09/26/2011 5:41:01 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
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...and they LAUGHED!

13 posted on 09/26/2011 5:41:19 AM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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Yeah - stop complainin’ and put on your marchin’ shoes. That’ll get them a job. Clueless!


14 posted on 09/26/2011 5:42:13 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: sauropod

home


15 posted on 09/26/2011 5:43:05 AM PDT by sauropod (ObaMao: Let them eat peas!)
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To: Red Badger

Right.

But....marching DOES get lots of fawning, biased and sniveling notice in the MSM.


16 posted on 09/26/2011 5:43:14 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. " Edmund Burke)
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To: silverleaf

ROTFL. You nailed it. That is exactly what he sounded like!


17 posted on 09/26/2011 5:43:24 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Rummyfan

What specifically does he want them to fight for?


18 posted on 09/26/2011 5:44:26 AM PDT by umgud
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To: SueRae
Is he implying that these people are sitting in front of their TV’s all day in bathrobes, watching daytime soaps and eating bonbons?

Yes, he is. That's what he thinks of them. Whether it's accurate or not, I don't know.

19 posted on 09/26/2011 5:44:26 AM PDT by Tax-chick ( "It is my job to be rational, and I have no doubt at all that I have that power--sometimes.")
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I don't hear that particular constituency clamoring for ‘jobs’ as much as I hear them demanding more welfare (and sumore o’ dat Obama Money would be good too )
20 posted on 09/26/2011 5:45:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket~!!!)
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