Posted on 04/10/2015 1:27:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As a declared presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) should generate even bigger headlines when he addresses black audiences, as he has at Howard University and other venues. When he was executive of mainly Democratic Milwaukee County, Governor Scott Walker (R., Wis.) appealed to black voters; his reelection majorities consistently increased.
These and other Republicans should ask black Americans for their votes from now through November 2016. They should do so by challenging blacks to ask themselves an honest question: “What, exactly, have you gained by handing Obama 95 percent of your votes in 2008 and 93 percent in 2012?”
This economy has left blacks with little to show for their loyalty to Obama and the Democrats.
The unemployment rate has fallen under Obama, from 7.8 percent when he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, to 5.5 percent last month. Though less dramatic, joblessness has dropped for black Americans (from 12.7 to 10.1 percent) and black teenagers (from 35.3 to 25.0 percent).
From there, things get bleak.
U.S. labor force participation has declined during that same period, from 65.7 to 62.7 percent. For blacks in general, the damage was a bit lighter, dipping from 63.2 to 61.0 percent of available employees in the work pool. For black teenagers, however, this number deteriorated — from 29.6 to 25.7 percent.
The percentage of Americans below the poverty line inched up, the latest available Census Bureau data found, from 14.3 to 14.5 percent overall — between 2009 and 2013. For black Americans, that climb was steeper: The 25.8 percent in poverty rose to 27.2 percent.
Real median household incomes across America retreated across those years, from $54,059 to $51,939. Though less pronounced, such finances also reversed for black Americans, from $35,387 to $34,598.
Food Stamp recipients between 2009 and 2013, the most recent Department of Agriculture figures show, rose from 32.9 million to 47.1 million Americans. Meanwhile, the equivalent number of blacks soared from 7.4 million to 12.2 million.
Home ownership slipped from 67.3 percent of Americans in the first quarter of 2009 to 64.0 in the fourth quarter of 2014. For blacks, that figure slid from 46.1 to 42.1 percent.
For further details and analysis, see this chart.
Elie Mystal, a black Democratic activist, appeared with yours truly on Hannity on March 20. Responding to data like these, Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity pleaded in vain for Mystal to explain how Obama had improved blacks’ fortunes. Finally, Hannity practically begged Mystal: “Give me one statistical piece of evidence that the black community under Barack Obama — they gave him 90-plus percent of their vote — is better off under his policies. Give me a measurement that you can point to.”
“No,” Mystal sputtered. “I cannot give you one shining super metric that explains the difference in experience for black people under this president versus black people under the president’s potential competitors.”
This sorry spectacle vividly exposed the bare cupboard reserved for black profits on Obama’s watch.
As America’s first black president, Obama offered blacks a sense of ethnic pride, much as JFK’s election warmed the hearts of his fellow Catholics. Indeed, Obama’s breakthrough stirred Americans of all backgrounds. His first inauguration moved even his opponents. Obama back then enjoyed 69 percent approval.
But that symbolic value has evaporated. The eloquent, elegant figure who echoed Sidney Poitier has devolved into a latter-day Jimmy (J. J.) Walker. From his West Wing waltz with a selfie stick, to his exclusive interview with neon-lime-lipstick-wearing GloZell Green, to his truancy during Paris’s Charlie Hebdo march, to his 223 rounds of golf, to his screaming-infant-like reaction to the reelection of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama has soiled his office, turned himself into a punch line, and fundamentally transformed his country into a global laughingstock.
Obama has betrayed blacks as a community, failed Americans as a people, and enfeebled the United States as a nation.
These painful truths will be inescapable come November 2016, even to Obama’s most devoted loyalists. Republicans should make this case to black voters, starting now.
— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
“Losing ground” meanings nothing unless it means pain and discomfort. Where is the pain and discomfort for Blacks that have sold their vote for food clothing schooling transportation entertainment and special preference in every single situation? So losing ground is a meaningless phrase developed by conservatives who don’t want to let go of the foolish notion that Blacks will someday vote Republican because they have been ill-treated by Democrats.
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Obama and his wife were never received into the upper crust black elite society but by the grace of Valerie Jarrett who helped them network by picking a vacation spot near her home for them perhaps would introduce them to the elite black reserve on campus at Martha’s Vineyard enclaves.
Beyond, but even networking within this special group of the 10% has not given them the access they might so desire.
It is limited and the uppercrust don’t want to be seen with them.http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/ in public.
Because Michelle does not pass the paper bag test and not any special roots and Obama is an outsider who does pass the paper bag test and both will never be accepted
http://blog.sfgate.com/davis/2009/08/24/ghetto-girl-michelle-obama-and-the-marthas-vineyard-black-elite/
Barack Hossein Obama and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson are not well received by the majority of of the black elite and that majority has a quiet voice within this priviledged community who are “old money”. They are simply tolerated on behest of Valerie Jarrett & her own network of radical thinkers from Martha’s Vineyard. Henry Louis Gates the intellectual narcissist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83GL7RUaC_c Cornelius West,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LhmQ-DwLTU another black power racist and host of other radical 10%’s who have finally come of aff act age who are now free to spread their doctrines of same sex marriage, legalization of homosexuality,raising the flag for radical islamization within the United States , late term abortions and socialization of human services because African-Americans have bought into marxism as way of waging war for social justice. In Jamaica the social justice culture by smoking weed as a way of liberation;albeit temporarily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vucnSelKio
this video of BHO is the most recent as of 3 days ago or less-imitating Jamaicans to fuel his narcissicism.
I have always wondered if this was really a set up of sorts but then thought again & saw something deeper-whether it was a set-up or not- Obama BEGAN THE RACE WAR and it’s still going on using Henry Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZ8bdpIuTg
Neither Barack nor Michelle come from old money.Neither of them had anything to begin with.
Their affirmative action backgrounds automatically disqualify any sort of social ranking within this group because they never networked the social scene while students nor came from any notable background-they are both composites of the liberal media.
Michelle Obama had plenty of opportunities to network but was too wrapped up her senior year on how uncomfortable she was in more or less declaring her entire college experience was an exercise in racism (at the tax-payers expense of course)and still carries the chip on her shoulder
to this very day. When she did go to work at a very prestifious lawfirm she complained. As a young lawyer she by-passed her direct supervisor and headed straight to Human Resources whining she wasn’t challenged enough
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2098582/posts
The black elite & old money has a long history of their own networking thru bloodlines, frats,soros, clubs , real estate, entreprenuers, etc.. way before Junior and Moochie were ever born and neither of them ever participated.
When Michelle obama became 1st lady she enrolled her two girls in Jack & Jill. That opportunity was not available to her nor her children when living in Chicago. Jack & Jill is an upwardly mobile group for young black children of the elite to socialize . Michelle Obama was granted enrollement
of her two children into Jack & Jill club at even the late age they were by pure virtue of being First Lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYF4dF5zGOg
If they were true Jack & Jiller’s these two girls would have been enrolled from day one.The elite black community gave her a pass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_of_America
Barack has been inducted into the Boule since he was president but he never was asked to join when he was “up & coming because he didin’t qualify.
https://www.sigmapiphi.org/home/history_of_the_boule.php
To the black elite he was a guttersnipe and a forced nominee but not vetted , He had no connections. He was inducted after he became President along with another Masonic Organization that is specifically geared to black members
http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=12935
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/prince_hall/
I’ve been observing how this admin has been run and w/o ValJar’s influence to introduce these two into the elite 10%’s & either wouldn’t have had a clue on how to about life without ValJar’s introductions-ValJar has used
obama & his wife also to advance her own agenda within
the 10% she consorts with,too-http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/magazine/valerie-jarrett-i-intend-to-stay-until-the-lights-go-off.html
An interesting observation here : A while ago Junior was looking around for a Sec’y of the Treasury and Ken Chenault name came up & Junior wanted Ken for the position.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/973053/Kenneth-Chenault
Mr. Chenault turned Junior down & I don’t blame him. Why would anyone much less leave his position as Chairman and CEO of American Express since 2001 and take direction much less order from the petty dictatorial deluded tyrant he is.
Obama fails to see the value of the free market and
little government .
Mr. Chenault is not a friend of Barack Obama but Obama presumed Mr Chenault a willing 10%’er of this disastrous regime.
Mr. Chenault has more integrity in his little finger than obama could ever come up with in the tiny brain he has and Val Jar brags about being the other half .
Praise to Mr. Chenault for turning the offer down because
he knows where Obama comes from-not only the marxist background but sketchy parenthood & sketchy birth certificate & SS#,too.
I sometimes wonder about the judgement that is exercised by Obama and who would want to be associated with a sociopath with his head up his ass? Even Oprah has divested the bam . As much as I don’t like Oprah & her empire I give her credit because she came into everything she has all by
her own. She wasn’t handed anything-she worked for it.
And that’s what we need more of in this country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QfsnDvysJU
Junior was put into office to do one thing & that is to take down the US & make it poor & make it less than a superpower it used to be.Put everybody on welfare;create
a socialist state according to the diktats of the people who run that outfit called bilderberg and George Soros.
Slimey socialist little b*stard he is.
Oh well, it’s been fun little rant trying to put all this together for anyone who wants to read it-sure there are mistakes and I beg pardon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2098582/posts
The thing is, they don’t care if they lose ground, as long as Whitey also loses ground. That’s the crux of the mental illness known as “Liberalism.”
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
The unemployment rate has fallen under Obama, from 7.8 percent when he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, to 5.5 percent last month. Though less dramatic, joblessness has dropped for black Americans (from 12.7 to 10.1 percent) and black teenagers (from 35.3 to 25.0 percent).The National Review should know better than that.
I agree with Rand Paul and Jeb Bush on this issue. America was founded by immigrants.
Yeah, as if they’re the only two people who know that.
The problem with the Republican Party is that their outlook is quite nativist. This country doesn’t belong to just the descendants of Northern and Western Europeans.
Hispanics are naturally Conservative on many issues including abortion. The Republicans must do more to appeal to them.
Like what?
Two words — Ted Cruz.
If Scott Walker is the POTUS nominee, he’d be smart to have either TC as his running mate, or Marco Rubio.
Rand Paul isn’t a Republican, merely a self-described Republican; same for his alleged conservatism and libertarianism.
Nativism is not a problem with the Republican Party — that’s a problem for the Demagogic Party, because it’s getting more and more difficult to sell, even though they’ve cleared all traces of their KKK, Jim Crow, and slavery roots from the educational system, replacing it with their own agenda (global warming, reparations, white privilege, homosexuality, redistribution, shariah).
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