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Topic: Obama: Playing racial games
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Sun 11/09/14 07:52 AM
Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.”

So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos.

Thanks to last week’s election rout, the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president. From the lackluster economy to global troubles, his obvious shortcomings are legion.

Yet race relations were one area where it seemed safe to assume he would leave a positive legacy. His ­meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

He had compared himself to the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy from the same spot Lincoln had announced his, in Springfield, Ill., and took the oath on Lincoln’s Bible.

“Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes,” Obama told USA Today in 2007, “but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it’s there I learned how to legislate; it’s there that I developed many of my political ideas.”

Much of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse.

But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse.

Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.

Other polls found an even more lopsided view. A survey for Investor’s Business Daily found that nearly half of all adults think race relations are worse under Obama and 1 in 4 believe they are “much worse.” Only 18 percent say they are better.
While the problems are too entrenched to pinpoint a single source of failure, the president cannot ­escape responsibility.
After all, he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a “nation of cowards” on race.

That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an ­investigation.

He complained last April that he and Obama had been subjected to unique criticism, then denied he was talking about race. In July, as election season heated up, he charged that he and Obama were subjected to “racial animus.”

Then there’s Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously ­divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it.”

OK, then. That says it all.

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Sun 11/09/14 08:16 AM
Edited by msharmony on Sun 11/09/14 08:20 AM
1.That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot

...who believed this? peace? in America? ur joking right?


2.Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama


,,,I believe race relations has been HIGHLIGHTED, and hasn't changed at all,,,



3.the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president

..only for those who were already insistent that he was a failure,,,,otherwise the 'debate' will continue,,,

upon research, one can find that other widely hailed presidents, including Reagan and Bush,, lost the senate and/or house majorities somewhere in their 2nd terms

4.His ­meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

..only the dillusional believed this,, imho,, having a FIRST doesn't mean anything gets 'erased' , just at best that there is a CHANCE for things to improve,,,




5. who took office by calling the country a �nation of cowards�� on race.


...it would surprise me if he worded it just that way,,but he didn't lie,,,
coward: a person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things

the majority of people aren't willing to aknowledge let alone discuss race relations without shutting the discussion down, belittling it, or denying anything is wrong,,,

unless its to blame one man for things not getting better,,,,,


6. unique criticism

..do you mean like questioning citizenship or religion,,,,,? no that didn't happen to them,, or is it that it happens to other presidents?



7. Then there'��s Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously �divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: ��There'��s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down


.....good for both of them, its not like people wont talk about them either way,,,



AND WHAT PART OF THAT WAS 'RACIAL GAMES'?



mysticalview21's photo
Sun 11/09/14 08:49 AM
Op racial acts was underline from the beginning of his first yr...

I am not angry about who got elected it was all of the controversy of keeping people from voting and making it harder for those and making them have to go out of their way an then telling them wrong district so much push and shove is what I am more angered about... just did not seem fair ... but its done now and America has to move on can't waste time now with all that is going on ... so its a will see what the GOP is doing and what will really get passed ...

msharmony's photo
Sun 11/09/14 08:54 AM
yeah, cause he has a history of doing that,, both times,,,lol

Conrad_73's photo
Sun 11/09/14 08:55 AM

Op racial acts was underline from the beginning of his first yr...

I am not angry about who got elected it was all of the controversy of keeping people from voting and making it harder for those and making them have to go out of their way an then telling them wrong district so much push and shove is what I am more angered about... just did not seem fair ... but its done now and America has to move on can't waste time now with all that is going on ... so its a will see what the GOP is doing and what will really get passed ...

well,whatever Obama doesn't veto!

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Sun 11/09/14 04:17 PM
Edited by Sojourning_Soul on Sun 11/09/14 04:25 PM

yeah, cause he has a history of doing that,, both times,,,lol


Seeing how Reid kept everything from reaching his desk..... all 361 pieces of legislation passed by the Repulsicon control house.... many with a major bipartisan vote for passage.... were never brought up in the Senate for a vote..... much less a veto

Yet the Dems blamed everything on the Repulsicons for getting nothing done in congress.....FAIL!

Much like the govt shutdown..... which Obozo and the Dems chose what would and wouldn't be shut down..... and we all know what was chosen.... and blamed on the Repulsicons who had ZERO control over it

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Sun 11/09/14 05:05 PM
Edited by msharmony on Sun 11/09/14 05:15 PM
uhuh,, and still to the point

of the 1400 odd bills that were VOTED ON from jan of 09
he has a quite the history of vetoing (2 times)

that's about what? 1/10th of 1 %of the time

wont find a rate of veto much lower than that,,,,,

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics


however,, it is not so hard to find a rate of hung up bills that is similar to that which people use to explain the 'do nothing' congress,,, in congresses that still managed to pass much more,,,


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/07/are-300-house-bills-really-bottled-up-in-the-senate/

willowdraga's photo
Sun 11/09/14 05:31 PM
So when a white president nominates a white person for anything it is racist?

Chazster's photo
Sun 11/09/14 08:15 PM

So when a white president nominates a white person for anything it is racist?


That is apples to oranges. Not saying that the original topic this is about is racist, but if for example the majority out numbers the minority 100 to 1 then then thinking a majority picking a majority doesn't seem racist (though it could be). However if the minority is picking the minority in that same situation then it sure appears to be. (though it may not be).

This is about perception.

msharmony's photo
Sun 11/09/14 08:18 PM
true the privilege of being perceived as the reasonable choice based purely on being the majority,,,is a reality,,,

Sojourning_Soul's photo
Mon 11/10/14 03:31 AM

uhuh,, and still to the point

of the 1400 odd bills that were VOTED ON from jan of 09
he has a quite the history of vetoing (2 times)

that's about what? 1/10th of 1 %of the time

wont find a rate of veto much lower than that,,,,,

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics


however,, it is not so hard to find a rate of hung up bills that is similar to that which people use to explain the 'do nothing' congress,,, in congresses that still managed to pass much more,,,


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/07/are-300-house-bills-really-bottled-up-in-the-senate/


370 bills came out of the house on jobs, tax reform, and immigration. Reid killed them all!

The Republican House has passed over 300 pieces of Legislation in the last last three years and the Senate controlled by the Harry Reid and the Democrats shelved them all and wouldn’t even allow an up or down vote. This was done by Harry Reid to protect the Democrats form having to vote on a bill that might cause them criticism from the Public. This also kept Legislation from being sent to Obama that might embarrass him, These included 46 Job Bills.

The POTUS hasn't come to the reality yet as to what happened last week.

With Holder leaving (however his newest appointee has been questioned as a racist for past actions) and Reid out of power in the senate, he will NOW be called on his questionable and unconstitutional actions where the Demoncrapic senate just yawned before!

He may have the power of veto, a pen and a phone, but there is now a Repulsicon house and senate majority to strike him down.

We may even see a SCOTUS that actually does its job for a change as well, and Obozocare has many cases pending before them. Perhaps the law will again be the law, and if that is the case the Repulsicons won't have to repeal Obozocare, the SCOTUS will do it for them ruling it unconstitutional!

Lpdon's photo
Mon 11/10/14 04:33 AM
Edited by Lpdon on Mon 11/10/14 05:26 AM

Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.”

So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos.

Thanks to last week’s election rout, the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president. From the lackluster economy to global troubles, his obvious shortcomings are legion.

Yet race relations were one area where it seemed safe to assume he would leave a positive legacy. His ­meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

He had compared himself to the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy from the same spot Lincoln had announced his, in Springfield, Ill., and took the oath on Lincoln’s Bible.

“Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes,” Obama told USA Today in 2007, “but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it’s there I learned how to legislate; it’s there that I developed many of my political ideas.”

Much of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse.

But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse.

Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.

Other polls found an even more lopsided view. A survey for Investor’s Business Daily found that nearly half of all adults think race relations are worse under Obama and 1 in 4 believe they are “much worse.” Only 18 percent say they are better.
While the problems are too entrenched to pinpoint a single source of failure, the president cannot ­escape responsibility.
After all, he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a “nation of cowards” on race.

That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an ­investigation.

He complained last April that he and Obama had been subjected to unique criticism, then denied he was talking about race. In July, as election season heated up, he charged that he and Obama were subjected to “racial animus.”

Then there’s Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously ­divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it.”

OK, then. That says it all.


That's what happens when you put a narcissistic, race baiting sociopath in the White House.

He is slowly derailing, coming un hinged after last Tuesday. Saying he will use executive orders to push through radical laws like the Amnesty for illegal criminals, which he will end up getting impeached for and rightfully so. He should have been impeached several times over by now for bypassing and thumbing his nose at Congress.

Conrad_73's photo
Mon 11/10/14 04:52 AM
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/30/7131905/obama-immigration-reform-how-what-immigrants-millions-plan

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Mon 11/10/14 06:50 PM
Edited by msharmony on Mon 11/10/14 06:50 PM


Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.”

So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos.

Thanks to last week’s election rout, the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president. From the lackluster economy to global troubles, his obvious shortcomings are legion.

Yet race relations were one area where it seemed safe to assume he would leave a positive legacy. His ­meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

He had compared himself to the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy from the same spot Lincoln had announced his, in Springfield, Ill., and took the oath on Lincoln’s Bible.

“Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes,” Obama told USA Today in 2007, “but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it’s there I learned how to legislate; it’s there that I developed many of my political ideas.”

Much of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse.

But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse.

Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.

Other polls found an even more lopsided view. A survey for Investor’s Business Daily found that nearly half of all adults think race relations are worse under Obama and 1 in 4 believe they are “much worse.” Only 18 percent say they are better.
While the problems are too entrenched to pinpoint a single source of failure, the president cannot ­escape responsibility.
After all, he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a “nation of cowards” on race.

That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an ­investigation.

He complained last April that he and Obama had been subjected to unique criticism, then denied he was talking about race. In July, as election season heated up, he charged that he and Obama were subjected to “racial animus.”

Then there’s Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously ­divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it.”

OK, then. That says it all.


That's what happens when you put a narcissistic, race baiting sociopath in the White House.

He is slowly derailing, coming un hinged after last Tuesday. Saying he will use executive orders to push through radical laws like the Amnesty for illegal criminals, which he will end up getting impeached for and rightfully so. He should have been impeached several times over by now for bypassing and thumbing his nose at Congress.


perhaps he is coming down with alzheimers, like Reagan in /87 when he was bypassing congress

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-21/news/mn-2317_1_executive-order

or helping send arms in that whole Iran -Contra scandal that hardly caused him to be viewed as the worst president, impeachable, or even beyond actual REVERENCE by history


yeah, again, not a first , in terms of Presidents 'pushing through' what they support,,,,




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Mon 11/10/14 06:53 PM



Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.”

So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos.

Thanks to last week’s election rout, the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president. From the lackluster economy to global troubles, his obvious shortcomings are legion.

Yet race relations were one area where it seemed safe to assume he would leave a positive legacy. His ­meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

He had compared himself to the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy from the same spot Lincoln had announced his, in Springfield, Ill., and took the oath on Lincoln’s Bible.

“Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes,” Obama told USA Today in 2007, “but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it’s there I learned how to legislate; it’s there that I developed many of my political ideas.”

Much of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse.

But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse.

Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.

Other polls found an even more lopsided view. A survey for Investor’s Business Daily found that nearly half of all adults think race relations are worse under Obama and 1 in 4 believe they are “much worse.” Only 18 percent say they are better.
While the problems are too entrenched to pinpoint a single source of failure, the president cannot ­escape responsibility.
After all, he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a “nation of cowards” on race.

That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an ­investigation.

He complained last April that he and Obama had been subjected to unique criticism, then denied he was talking about race. In July, as election season heated up, he charged that he and Obama were subjected to “racial animus.”

Then there’s Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously ­divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it.”

OK, then. That says it all.


That's what happens when you put a narcissistic, race baiting sociopath in the White House.

He is slowly derailing, coming un hinged after last Tuesday. Saying he will use executive orders to push through radical laws like the Amnesty for illegal criminals, which he will end up getting impeached for and rightfully so. He should have been impeached several times over by now for bypassing and thumbing his nose at Congress.


perhaps he is coming down with alzheimers, like Reagan in /87 when he was bypassing congress

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-21/news/mn-2317_1_executive-order

or helping send arms in that whole Iran -Contra scandal that hardly caused him to be viewed as the worst president, impeachable, or even beyond actual REVERENCE by history


yeah, again, not a first , in terms of Presidents 'pushing through' what they support,,,,




The only difference is, MsH, Reagan had the majority peoples support behind him.
Obama does not.

Dodo_David's photo
Mon 11/10/14 06:56 PM
Yes, some Democrats tried to scare black voters into voting for Democrats by playing the "Republicans-are-racists" card.

However, President Obama didn't do that. He was too busy playing golf. :tongue:

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Mon 11/10/14 06:58 PM
Edited by msharmony on Mon 11/10/14 07:01 PM
the president approval has plummeted with congress


Reagan had quite a different situation, and still pretty much fluctuated between the low 40s and mid 50s approval thru his term,,,

and AFTER he left, he slowly became remembered as a great and a revered president,,,

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Tue 11/11/14 02:12 PM

Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem's Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP "believe that slavery isn't over."



That is in all probability one of the only things I would definitely agree with the dishonorable Rangel about. Slavery has never been over. Where to start, well how about the 13th Amendment:

"Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Now while this sounded great, it did create a whole plethora of problems so then we got:

"Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Now all where equal, not free but equal. However, it did create a little constitutional issue so then we got:

"Be it enacted by the Senator and the House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision, of any officers of is government which denies., restricts , impairs or questions the rights of expatriation , is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government." (enacted July 27 1868).

Funny bit of legislation here but one I believe in very much, repatriation to the republic. Now the servitude was voluntary as their was an enactment that allowed repatriation.


So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot.


Still waiting, only got the job less than half done.


But that's not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos.


What do you expect out of a racist? When one stops looking at the color of the skin and starts to see the actual individual, then one better understands just what is being dealt with. This idiots whole rhetoric from the very beginning has been based on race. And the sad part is he sees the average black person as beneath him.


Thanks to last week's election rout, the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president. From the lackluster economy to global troubles, his obvious shortcomings are legion.

Yet race relations were one area where it seemed safe to assume he would leave a positive legacy. His �meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.


What would you expect, Odumbo has an aversion for four of the six worse things these united States has ever stood for according to "Trends" publisher, Garald Clente: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, bullets, bombs and banks. personally I believe Columbia, Stanford, and Georgetown should be added to the list.

As to Odumbo's failures, I don't believe we have seen anything yet.


He had compared himself to the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy from the same spot Lincoln had announced his, in Springfield, Ill., and took the oath on Lincoln's Bible.

"Not only is Lincoln one of my political heroes," Obama told USA Today in 2007, "but, like Lincoln, I served for seven years in Springfield in the state Senate, and it"s there I learned how to legislate; it's there that I developed many of my political ideas."


Ah, the land of Lincoln, Illinois. The most corrupt and dictatorial state in the Union. Yes his action definitely illustrate that he learned from the best for establishing a dictatorship.

And his hero, Lincoln. After the war of 1812, Lincoln was the most prevalent ever in destroying the republic. This is the man that set the precedent for all to follow on how to start a war based on false flags to curtail the republican form of government. The only positive aspect of Lincoln was his hatred of banks with the same zeal he hated freedom, yours that is.


Much of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse.

But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse.

Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.

Other polls found an even more lopsided view. A survey for Investor's Business Daily found that nearly half of all adults think race relations are worse under Obama and 1 in 4 believe they are "much worse." Only 18 percent say they are better.
While the problems are too entrenched to pinpoint a single source of failure, the president cannot �escape responsibility.
After all, he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a "nation of cowards" on race.

That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an investigation.

He complained last April that he and Obama had been subjected to unique criticism, then denied he was talking about race. In July, as election season heated up, he charged that he and Obama were subjected to "racial animus."

Then there's Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously �divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: "There's a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down. He gets it."

OK, then. That says it all.


But what the heck, you got to give Odumbo credit, he is representative of the masses.

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Tue 11/11/14 02:18 PM
some whom wish to feel self important and wise will blindly follow what others lay strategically in front of their eye's as fact.

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Tue 11/11/14 02:37 PM

1.That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot

...who believed this? peace? in America? ur joking right?


Say what? What history-making moment are you referring to, America's biggest embarrassment? Which one, there have been so many over the past 6 years? And after Bush and Clinton, this nation has been the joke of the world for better than 2 decades.


2.Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama


,,,I believe race relations has been HIGHLIGHTED, and hasn't changed at all,,,


And which rock have you been hiding, oh wait excuse me, I forgot about the rose colored glasses, extreme dark tint models.


3.the debate is settled over whether Obama is a failed president

..only for those who were already insistent that he was a failure,,,,otherwise the 'debate' will continue,,,

upon research, one can find that other widely hailed presidents, including Reagan and Bush,, lost the senate and/or house majorities somewhere in their 2nd terms


Failure, let us name the ways: failed community organizer, failed constitutional professor, failed state legislator, failed senator and now failed president. My such a long and distinguished career laced with failure as the primary accomplishment. Odumbo's only successes have been cheer-leading, bull and outright lying. An amazing legacy.


4.His �meteoric rise sent hopes soaring that the scars of the past would be erased the moment he took office.

..only the dillusional believed this,, imho,, having a FIRST doesn't mean anything gets 'erased' , just at best that there is a CHANCE for things to improve,,,


Delusional, the delusional are those that keep spinning the failures and making the excuses for an election system that provides nothing but utter failures. But the real delusion is to try and spin statism as something desirable and that elections allow the people to choose their "leader".


5. who took office by calling the country a "nation of cowards" on race.


...it would surprise me if he worded it just that way,,but he didn't lie,,,
coward: a person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things

the majority of people aren't willing to aknowledge let alone discuss race relations without shutting the discussion down, belittling it, or denying anything is wrong,,,

unless its to blame one man for things not getting better,,,,,


Odumbo and Holder are one and the same. Both have exceeded the Peter Principle by more than a few positions. They have risen to such exalted heights by sponsors that only have their own concerns at heart and that has nothing to do with the rights of the people. What better way to accomplish utter disdain for the people than to support two of the most racist psychopathic and sociopathic individuals in this nation? And what better way to follow this up than with the she-devil herself?


6. unique criticism

..do you mean like questioning citizenship or religion,,,,,? no that didn't happen to them,, or is it that it happens to other presidents?


Really, a little convenient problem with comprehension? Trying to change the subject? Let me jog the old memory: Trayvon Martin and Ferguson ring a bell?


7. Then there's Al Sharpton, who has the ear of de Blasio, Holder and Obama despite being notoriously �divisive. Asked by The Washington Post how Sharpton, baggage and all, became so close to Obama, an aide said: "There's a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down"


.....good for both of them, its not like people wont talk about them either way,,,



AND WHAT PART OF THAT WAS 'RACIAL GAMES'?


All of it!!!

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