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Rep. Waters Pushes Back At Obama During Black Caucus Talk: ‘We’re Getting Tired’

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It’s town hall season, and the Congressional Black Caucus is the first this year to get a mouthful from frustrated constituents on the economy. In a clip that quickly made the rounds in the news cycle, the panel meeting the Detroit crowd yesterday defended the President’s work, but with a bit of malaise, as Rep. Maxine Waters argued they were “getting tired” and “don’t know why on this trip… he’s not in any black community.” That the President is having trouble with his most loyal constituency is already being touted as a sign that 2012 isn’t going to be a Democratic cakewalk.

At some points during the public meeting last night, the mostly black crowd became so agitated the representatives found difficulty speaking– this was certainly the case as Rep. Waters explained to the crowd that she believed “we’ve got to put pressure on the President, because you all love the President.” She said she understood the hesitation on attacking him, but then lay into the President once she got the crowd to settle, wondering where his economics plan was and lamenting that his August bus tour did not include any black neighborhoods:

“The Congressional Black Caucus loves the President, too. 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 frustration among members of the black community seemed to reflect to some in the media why the President’s approval ratings have been dwindling in such a dramatic way recently, such that his core support group feels alienated has he tours rural communities where he has never had a solid following and has already encountered some trouble with the local Tea Party leaders there. As panel moderator Jeff Johnson explained in his wrap-up, “the ‘hope and change’ message that rallied support from African-American communities in Detroit and beyond is long gone. Many are unclear what message can motivate this base to the polls again, while so many are suffering under a devastating economy and the reality of unemployment.” This, “exacerbated by the fact that at the same time the CBC Detroit town hall was taking place, the president was in Iowa dealing with the issues of rural Americans,” gave the panel, to its host, a new sense of urgency.

Meanwhile, the news was covered on the cable networks as a sign of concern for the President. On MSNBC, Chris Jansing hosted a discussion with Roll Call‘s John Traynham and MSNBC contributor Karen Hunter, the former who found that “it’s not by chance” the President was traveling to rural swing states– he has a serious problem among “rural white voters”– but the frustration due to the high levels of unemployment was palpable. Meanwhile, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly checked in with White House Correspondent Ed Henry, on the road with the President in Iowa, both of whom agreed that it was “extraordinary” to see the people who voted in the highest percentages for the President so raucous at a meeting featuring mostly Democratic Obama supporters.

Rep. Water’s statements, followed by commentary from MSNBC and Fox News, respectively, below:

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  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    perhaps Hillary Clinton should go to her and recite that James Cleveland poem … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDm4jkDbGQ

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    Peggy Joseph hardest hit.

  • Berserk

    Even if Rep. Waters and the whole African American contingent in Congress suddenly get really REALLY mad at President Obama, it’s not like they’re gonna vote for a Republican in 2012. In short, President Obama can and will continue to ignore their noise. 

  • TruDat

    What’s with the white woman wig?

  • Anonymous

    Jesus, when Obama invited a Black singer to the White House all hell broke loose.

    Could you imagine how the racist tealiban would react if he went to a Black Neighborhood?

    FOX HEADLINE:  “OBAMA ATTENDS HIP-HOP BLOCK PARTY!”

  • Anonymous

    Someone please tell Maxine Waters that “the black community” can not shakedown and extort Obama.  Black on white shakedowns (ala Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) only work because rich white people (politicians included) are terrified of being branded a “racist”.  That can’t and won’t work on Obama.  Obama knows he’s got the black vote whether he panders to them or not; and “the black community” can’t touch him.  The black vote has no where else to go – conservatives don’t even try to persuade them even more.

    In other words, blacks are impotent to effect Obama’s agenda and behavior.  Politicians are now too busy pandering to hispanics. Blacks have made themselves irrelevant. Too bad, so sad.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    Like Obama give’s a rat’s arse? He knows 95% of black voters will pull the lever for him in 2012. They may not show up to the polls as much as in 2008, but he doesn’t have to worry about them defecting to the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Its simple, really.  His bus isn’t cruising the black community because he knows that 94 – 97% of blacks will vote for him no matter what.  Why waste time there?

  • Anonymous

    Its simple, really.  His bus isn’t cruising the black community because he knows that 94 – 97% of blacks will vote for him no matter what.  Why waste time there?

  • Ralph-NY

    What does this have to do with the story above?

  • Ralph-NY

    What does this have to do with the story above?

  • Mm

    Yes you got that right.

  • Anonymous

    Did you read it?

    ” as Rep. Maxine Waters argued they were “getting tired” and “don’t know why on this trip… he’s not in any black community.””

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    No…

    But I can see from the clip how the racist Black Caucus reacts when he doesn’t go to a Black Neighborhood

  • Anonymous

    Deep down black leaders think he’s an uncle tom…they dare not breath a word of it though…

  • Anonymous

    What does the “wig” comment have to do with the story above.

    But that doesn’t bother you, does it?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Three cheers for identity politics!

    See, in 2011, it’s good to divide the country into little balkanized groups of people based solely on the color of their skin or a socially constructed modern version of tribalism we know as “race,” and then to treat members of these groups as if they’re inherently different than other people in the society. It’s good to emphasize the differences between men and women of able body in this country and not the similarities. It’s good to foster resentment and envy between these groups of your fellow citizens.

  • Anonymous

    When Obama gets publicly reprimanded by the Black Congressional Caucus, you know he is in trouble with his base.   How long before another candidate enters the race for the Democratic nomination?

  • http://twitter.com/LippyBroad lippybroad

    Resist We Much, Maxine. Resist We Much!

    /Sharpton

  • Ralph-NY

    So nothing just whining about Fox News. Thanks Wow some of people are really one note losers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Maxine milked her district of every penny they have. Not a soul can understand a word she speaks. The CBC was first to get their 8 billion dollar stimulus payoff from Obama thinking it was just a down payment, so shut up Maxine. Little did they know the CBC and all black communities were never anywhere but under Obama’s bus, so shut up Maxine. Who do the CBC think they are the Veterans Administration ? The Veterans package Obama gave away a couple of weeks back was the Obama  “A” package and not for the CBC, so shut up Maxine.

  • Anonymous

    one should note that often in nature extreme ugliness is a warning to others to avoid, at all costs, any contact or association with such creatures. This seems especially good advice concerning the sub-species known as lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist women.

    Rush Limbaugh: “It’s all because liberal women are so bossy and ugly.” Thanks, Rush. Once again, GREAT MINDS are in alignment.

    P.S. In her defense, waters’s ugliness is due, in part, to her being submerged in the washington SWAMP-OF-CORRUPTION for decades, most recently because she’s hiding from the House ethics committee for her theft of TARP money for the bank her husband is associated with.

  • Anonymous

    one should note that often in nature extreme ugliness is a warning to others to avoid, at all costs, any contact or association with such creatures. This seems especially good advice concerning the sub-species known as lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist women.

    Rush Limbaugh: “It’s all because liberal women are so bossy and ugly.” Thanks, Rush. Once again, GREAT MINDS are in alignment.

    P.S. In her defense, waters’s ugliness is due, in part, to her being submerged in the washington SWAMP-OF-CORRUPTION for decades, most recently because she’s hiding from the House ethics committee for her theft of TARP money for the bank her husband is associated with.

  • Anonymous

    No matter how you slice it Obama is in a world of hurt and the only thing that will change that is jobs…not speeches…not bus tours…not partisan rhetoric…but JOBS!

  • Anonymous

    Well Maxine, her caucus and these constituents are obviously speaking in code.  Racist code. 

    Is today Tommy’s day off?

  • Anonymous

    Well Maxine, her caucus and these constituents are obviously speaking in code.  Racist code. 

    Is today Tommy’s day off?

  • What the

    Well wait until the President comes back from vacation. He’s going to have a plan thats going nowhere and will help no one. But the media will sure love it.

  • What the

    Well wait until the President comes back from vacation. He’s going to have a plan thats going nowhere and will help no one. But the media will sure love it.

  • i420

    Kelly and Henry (hey wait, isn’t there a working theory that people with first name surnames are mentally ill) obviously don’t bother to tune into anything other than their own corporate propaganda.

    The center/center left…of all ethnic back rounds…is for fact…seriously fed up with President Obama.

    Indeed…he has far more critics and detractors in the center/center left than he does on the right.
    As well, its the center/center left that is going to see him out of office. Not, I repeat NOT the right.

  • Anonymous

    This woman is so sick with racism, though the liberals will be mum on it especially Ed (I called Perry a racist for calling debt a black cloud) Schultz.

    Imagine if a congresscritter told a crowd of whites the same bile Maxine spewed today about George W. Bush. 

  • Anonymous

    Yada yada yada Maxine, go ahead and bitch about, Jug Ears ain’t listening. As noted by anyone and everyone with a clue, they’ll all pull the lever for him anyway because of one simple reason, his skin color. He can ignore them completely until election day and they’ll still vote for him. Unfortunately, blacks have always voted against their own best interest and they will again in 2012.  

  • Wake up America

    I’m amazed how the black population votes for Obama and Obama turns around and ask ” do I know you”? He does the same to the Hispanics. However he knows that he can tell them anything and theyll fall for it. Kinda sad that he thinks of them to be that stupid. However if they voted for him once and he didn’t do anything for them the first time, and then they turn around and vote for him again the second time then I guess he had them pegged right. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, must be a democrat!

  • Anonymous

    It’s always the center.  Independents decide virtually every national election. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    An Uncle Tom?  That is such a useless thought, a word that without prejudice and projection of  bondage would have no meaning.

  • James R

    They are not cruising the black community because they don’t want the
    damn bus stripped while its moving.
    Would be most embarressing for the one!

  • Anonymous

    I could go on all day about the ignorance and dishonesty of this women. I’ll let her speak for herself.
    From ABC news with George Stefakjuvdhgmdfjkdfjfj. subject: Bankfraud.
    Via; http://www.breitbart.tv/maxine-waters-speaks-out-on-ethics-charges/

  • Anonymous

    Run against that Canadian bus driving , Martha’s Vineyard vacationing wimp , Maxine !

    You’re smarter than King Obama .

    Waters/Dingell 2012 .

  • Anonymous

    Maxine, maybe he is afraid of your “flash mobs” stealing the hubcaps off his Canadian made $1.1 million bus!

  • Anonymous

    The Congressional Black Caucus loves the President, too”

    CBC? That sure sounds racist!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    There is something very wrong with that clip…  it is very very wrong to see Hillary quoting scripture… It is un-natural.

  • Anonymous

    He’s not going into the black neighborhoods because he knows he has their vote wrapped up. They love him. Just ask Maxine. Like they are going to vote for anyone else? No, they aren’t so he could care less about them.

  • i420

    Indeed.

  • Frod

    Do you get a tingle in your pants when you get to accuse black people of racism?

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    I can’t wait until we have a different president so we can be proud to have a “white” president again.

  • Frod

    A racist idiot and not funny. I’d say you’re a real hit at parties.

  • Frod

    You’re terrifying

  • Anonymous

    Remember back in the good old days when a typical black Obama voter thought they were moments away from getting some of Obama’s “stash”?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ojd13kZlCA

    Obama played them for chumps and is still playing them for chumps. Sure, some of them are angry about not getting any new handouts and the special treatment they thought they deserved, but they are so solidly tied to the Dems that they have no where else to go. They can pout and cry but does anyone think they will start voting for  Republicans? Obama knows he has their votes safely in his pocket and can just as safely ignore their complaints.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    he’s not in any black community

    “insert sarcasm thru-out comment for the democrats”

    Duh! He is on a bus… that’s for the white voters.. Bus and RV crowd..

    when he slicks back in the limo.. he will then be in the black neighborhoods..
    you got to pimp your ride to go there.. they knew this!
    I heard they are adding spinner hubcaps right now.. give him time.

    Blame it all on his white side.. it’s not his fault.. he fails either way he goes to his own party!

    “end sarcasm for smarter people than his own party”

    OR.. Vote him out.. you guys can run another person against him.. anyone could do better.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    When you get screwed by your own family, it doesn’t seem to hurt as bad..

  • Frod

    Imagine if the next president was also black. Your head would probably explode

  • unmutual

    “don’t know why on this trip… he’s not in any black community.”

    He’s got the black vote sewn up Maxine, that’s why. Does anyone think that black folks (in general) are going to switch over and vote for those evil, racist, hostage taking Republicans? That is the downside of identity politics, you can’t play the two parties against each other.

  • Frod

    You’d prefer to get screwed by a member of your own family because it wouldn’t hurt so much? I think you might need to go to Sex University.

  • Anonymous

    Not if they had some experience other than being a Community Organizer.

  • Anonymous

    Now, that is a racist statement.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    That was a feel sorry for them response.. Im not a democrat…;-)

  • Anonymous

    Waters made her comments more to look good to her audience than to lament the President’s nonappearance.She knows as well as anybody why he’s not there and that the black vote is still his.

    How many african americans would really vote for Mitt Romney,Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman?

    As far as where he’s going,to deal with rural job issues,he can go anywhere and there are job issues.Sooner or later he’ll show up in urban areas too although there again he has the urban vote.

    Of course I’d prefer he showed up in DC to deal with job issues,a place he seems away from even when he is there,almost as much away from Main Strret.

  • Anonymous

    Lol…go look at Drudge right now!

  • Anonymous

    Lol…go look at Drudge right now!

  • Anonymous

    btw, here’s this:

    PRINCETON, NJ — A new low of 26% of Americans approve of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, down 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in mid-May and well below his previous low of 35% in November 2010.
    Obama earns similarly low approval for his handling of the federal budget deficit (24%) and creating jobs (29%).

  • Anonymous

    Of course Oblamer is not hitting the hoods….he takes their vote for granted!! Why would he waste time and money with people he knows are going to vote for him regardless?

  • Anonymous

    So we have reached the limit of the welfare state. No more money exists for handouts from all the broken federal programs that “serve” in inner-city poor. The CBC is sunk, and they know it. They can’t go on promising the moon and using the “race”card against Obama like they did with Bush. 
    BHO has been great for lawyers, environmentalists, lobbyists, the media and old line union workers, but not so good for small and medium business – who are more likely to employ.Now the blue state, Dem urban machine model is crumbling. Middle class and upper class blacks have moved to the suburbs, leaving the hard core poor behind. Given the high percentage of fatherless families and/or single mothers, failed schools and decaying social mores – you are left with black on black crime, flash mobs attacking whites and looting businesses. Too many young black men are winding up in jail or dead and that is a result of a broken family system and decades of fostering dependency and avoiding self reliance. They can’t read or write and are unemployable. Philly Mayor Nutter is the person we should be listening to, not the clueless  Maxine Waters, who along with the CBC and much of the black political class is part of the problem – not the solution.

  • Anonymous

    Duh. Still 95% approval rating among blacks for Obama. He knows you dopes aren’t going anywhere so why should he even bother…..seriously.

  • Anonymous

    Wished the racist Maxine Waters could see that picture…lol..too funny. One doesn’t have look hard to find Waldo in that picture!!

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    It is not conservatives who care about the color of a persons skin.    The first sentence of what I wrote I was being facetious.     You liberals on the other hand look to see who is yellow , brown and white and make sure they are all in the right place.

  • Anonymous

    But they might not be out in numbers as they were in 2008, not with unemployment in black communities in the high teens, with youth unemployment even higher.

    He’s going to have to play to the base at some point.  Not to give them jobs, of course.  But he’ll cut NASA’s ride again or somesuch that plays well in the black community.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.theroot.com/buzz/philadelphia-mayor-fed-philly-flash-mobs

    Tell that to the black Mayor of Philadelphia, troll!

  • Frod

    You’re really, really delusional

  • Frod

    You’re really, really delusional

  • Frod

    Ah, got you. They were your incest sex fantasies about Democrats. Is that a common fetish?

  • john.kliber

    Obama knows that the black American community has no one else they will or can vote for. In this sense, for a change, they are the victims of their own perceptual trap that trusts and advocates by skin color and so they have painted themselves into a corner and into Obama’s hip pocket.

    Why is there a Black Congressional Congress in 2011? They are no need for congressman or anyone for that matter to organize first and foremost around the color of one’s skin. That is absolutely forbidden to whites who have the good sense in any case to have no interest in such foolishness while at the same time being accused of racism the most. That is Orwellian doublethink and I am happy to let Waters and Smiley and West squirm and realize how, when one uses by skin color, one will be used by skin color.

    They have painted themselves right into a corner and there is no way out – none.

  • Anonymous

    Calling you an idiot would be an insult to idiots.

  • Anonymous

    the democrat party and people like Rev Sharpton and Jessie Jackson Have bamboozled the Black community with continuous cuddling and False racist finger pointing to the other side. They promised them everything and yet over 40 years now the black community is still mostly in poverty and have the lowest school test scores…. It’s very sad and will never change until the black community wakes up and realize they have other options like everyone else does. 

  • Frod

    Mediaite can be a pretty ugly place at the best of times but this thread takes the biscuit for outright & unashamed racism and almost nobody calling anyone on it. You wouldn’t usually see this many racist pricks gathered in one place outside of a Stormfront forum or maybe Fox Nation.

  • Anonymous

    Race is all that drives the paychecks to  Waters Sharpton and Jackson… If they said no one is racists anymore they would lose there jobs! So why do you think we hear about color in everything the left does? 

  • Thomas

    I’m a liberal Democrat, but I must say I’m very tired of Obama. He has never fought hard for progressives in a difficult, controversial issue. I mean health care reform is really health care change within the current industry. It’s hardly progressive. Obama was caving in to Republicans even when they did not hold the House agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for instance. In the agreement over debt ceiling raise he was completely defeated by Republicans agreeing to not raise any revenue. Now, Obama is in full campaign mode. He wants to fully appear moderate and compromising. I saw where he commented that unions need to reform where reform should be made. Meanwhile, GOP state governors are trying to destroy unions in favor of large corporations. Obama refuses to fight where there is even the remote possibility of failure. And so we have an overly timid, cautious president who leads from behind thoroughly unable to confront the nation’s challenges during these difficult times.

  • Thomas

    I’m a liberal Democrat, but I must say I’m very tired of Obama. He has never fought hard for progressives in a difficult, controversial issue. I mean health care reform is really health care change within the current industry. It’s hardly progressive. Obama was caving in to Republicans even when they did not hold the House agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for instance. In the agreement over debt ceiling raise he was completely defeated by Republicans agreeing to not raise any revenue. Now, Obama is in full campaign mode. He wants to fully appear moderate and compromising. I saw where he commented that unions need to reform where reform should be made. Meanwhile, GOP state governors are trying to destroy unions in favor of large corporations. Obama refuses to fight where there is even the remote possibility of failure. And so we have an overly timid, cautious president who leads from behind thoroughly unable to confront the nation’s challenges during these difficult times.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is going to do what he did in the 2008 campaign. He’s going to overlook the Black voters until the very end, and then he’s going to go to mostly all Black campaign rallies and use code words to stir up anti-White animosity like he did with is “Malcolm X” the movie quotes (hoodwinked & bamboozled = can’t trust Whitey).

  • Anonymous

    Says the #1 racist on Mediaite!

  • Anonymous

    You mean that mostly White, upper crust “Maatha’s Vineyaad” vacation? (couldn’t resist rubbing it in, hehe)

  • Anonymous

    Blah, blah, blah. I would think pulling the race card out of your a$$ for every post would start to hurt. 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the link. Glad Nutter has balls!

  • Anonymous

    He is really good at leading when it comes to blaming everyone/everything else for his failures. I guess he kinda got tired of blaming Bush and is now adding in the tsunami and the Arab Spring for all our woes. Really is there any point at which he will begin to take ANY responsibility for what is happening to the country? It has been almost 3 years.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Self induced pain is not a symptom it’s a
    disease. Vote Obama out in 2012!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: What did whitey do wrong to you today?

  • resist we much

    There are 64 Democrats in the House of Representatives that are listed as members of the Socialist Party of America.  She is one of them.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Going postal!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Loughner alert here!

  • Frod

    Citation?

  • Frod

    I’ve already explained to you that a question is not a fact you idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong again, you conservative, blacks do have a choice it’s called the third party. Voting for the third party is a protest vote. Conservatives do not go for the black vote because they do not care about dark skin people. Never have and never will… I do agree there are at times unreasonable demands from the black community but to state that conservatives ever made an effort is a foolish statement. Reagan your conservative god initially was against the civil rights act. Papa Bush actually voted against the civil rights act. W praised a school (Bob university) who did not allow blacks into their school in the post civil rights era. Blacks are fools for thinking they can be accepted in the conservative culture. Liberal whites helped black people throughout history not conservative whites. 

  • Texan

    Ok. Go park your car, if you have one, in the hood and see how long it lasts.

  • Texan

    Thanks patsy!

  • Anonymous

    Correction doubting Thomas…GOVERNMENT unions
    No one is suggesting elimination of private unoins. Government union should be illegal for obvious reasons. They are a huge conflict of interest, and a threat to taxpayers.

  • Anonymous

    Much of the time liberal/progressives/and blacks appoint themselves as moral arbiter applying the term “racist” to anything they disagree with or dislike the tone used. Dems/left use the “racism” term to beat up opponents, suppress debate and maintain their power.
    The “N” word is a great example, it is an awful word, whites use it under penalty of near death,  blacks use it commonly.  This double standard, among many others is glaring and has created tremendous ill will that does nobody any good. It’s ok for blacks to be insensitive but not whites. 
    America is a poorer country for it, because we can’t have honest dialogue about the problem of the large black underclass, programs that have failed or worked and how to make it better.
      

  • Moosenuts99

    APPARENTLY you have NO PROBLEM bringIng race into the discussion

  • Moosenuts99

    WAAAAAAAAAA I WANNA SAY THE N WORD TOOOOOOO

    BUT I CAAANNNTTT

    WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

    BABY NEEDS BOTTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Not anymore nutbag, the race card coverups of these two bit race hustlers are over. This is your official notification from the Koch Bros.

  • john.kliber

    Obama knows it’s the white vote he needs to be worried about because those racist whites, surprise, vote on issues and not skin color. The real racists will line up behind a candidate by skin and issues be damned. All Obama has to do to get the black vote is continue to be black, which requires simply waking up in the morning and no speeches. What morons racists are.

  • Moosenuts99

    WOW you are REALLY OBSESSED with nuts and nutsacks, talking about people’s nutsacks, waiting for nuts to drop

    YOU REALLY ARE A TEABAGGER APPARENTLY

    As for the race talk:’WOW. Either you’re doing some kind of Kaufman-like PERFORMANCE ART or you’re just blowing your gasket like every other CON here, unable to CONTAIN THEIR RACIS
    AND LOOOOOAAATHE BEING CALLED OUT ON IT

    SUGGESTION: Don’t want to be called a racist? Don’t say racist crap

  • john.kliber

    Obama’s laughing at Waters and the entire black community in that picture and saying, “these racist people vote on issues and so I have to engage them in an actual dialogue.”

    I love it when black folks who have such disdain for whites as racists have to admit the exact opposite in their actions. Obama campaigns among racists, ignores the non-racists, the non-racists are stuck with no issues to talk about aside from the color of neighborhoods.

    Folks, Orwell doesn’t come any purer than this.

  • john.kliber

    George Orwell – “1984.” 

  • john.kliber

    George Orwell – “1984.” 

  • Anonymous

    How stoooopid are you? The article is about the CBC, kind of hard to avoid race numnutz, that’s what the CBC is based upon. It’s not the congressional caucus, it’s the congressional BLACK caucus.

  • taff

    where was the CBC months ago or when Bush was in office?

  • Yy

    Its really bothersome to read such disgusting hyperbole.
    Hey, give me one promise that one person made to the black community.

  • taff

    there are obviously some white people who have a deep seated hatred for the first black president of the U.S

  • taff

    there are obviously some white people who have a deep seated hatred for the first black president of the U.S

  • taff

    Lots of young white men are in jail too.. I’m constantly handing out change to them.

  • taff

    Obama’s still doing better than rethugs

  • taff

    Totally!

  • Anonymous

    Zip it, Maxine. You and your Peeps would still vote for Obamo even if he decided to completely ignore you.

    He knows this.

    Stop whining for a bus that won’t come.

  • Frod

    Wich was established as a response to systematic white racism. Are you really this ignorant or are you just some computer software specifically designed to test my patience?

  • david r

    I’m tired of all that, especially on WH events, and said so at the time.  I think Michelle has been a great First Lady, and the WH ought to be open to just about anything you would do in church. (Well, Unitarian church.)  Didn’t Andrew Jackson have a victory party at the WH where huge amounts of moonshine were consumed, and firearms discharged?  But the people at the townhall had a point.  Maybe if Obama would go to black neighborhoods, then so would Romney, Perry and Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    Suggestion: Go see a psychiatrist.

  • Anonymous

    When Maxine is griping about a Democratic president, you know he’s got trouble with the base.

    Personally, I think that she’s corrupt, unethical, greedy and power hungry, as well as being dumber than the proverbial bag of rocks.  She’s one of the worst human beings currently serving in Congress, and that is saying something because there are a lot of corrupt individuals in that governmental body.  That being said, he is ignoring his base, which he threw under the bus after the healthcare vote.  He’s running scared for his second term and well he should be.  He’s blowing it left and right, pardon the pun, and few are happy with him except the most clueless amongst us.

    Frankly, he doesn’t know what he’s doing in this job.  The only thing that he does know how to do well is campaign, and thus the bus trip.

  • Anonymous

    This is too easy! liberals think with emotion instead of common sense. Just read one article out of thousands that show the black community is its biggest enemy to themselves. When Rap stars are young boys heros and if you do well in school your called whitey and teased…. these things are common throughout America and here is a link from one of the recent broken promises from Obama … http://www.examiner.com/dc-in-washington-dc/obama-s-broken-promises-to-his-own-community

  • Anonymous

    Perfect assessment of Maxine.

  • Anonymous

    LOL. I am going to miss the worn out race card when Obama is a distant memory and I can go back to voting against the white Democrats again.

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    I’m delusional?   You should be insulted that Maxine Waters is such a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Why isn’t this Leftist Democratic HACK just telling her peeps, “Just sit on your porch waitin’ fo’ mo’ money from ‘Bama’s ‘stash.’ Why does she even CARE about ‘jobs’ when all those ‘food stamps’ have been ‘declared’ by Leftists to be a cure-all for the economy?

  • Anonymous

    Racial mafia mindset in America.  Someone should tap Herman Cain on the shoulders and say “pssssstttt, this is the GOP party you running in.  Try the next door, the Dim-0-Rats party, over there yonder”.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree.  I think they’re about ready for the next party to step up and help them get JOBS!  OB’s economic performance downright stinks and polled down to 29%.  Time for action otherwise there will be four more years of this crap.

  • JustMe

     You are wrong. The vast majority of Black people are not poor. Over the last 40 years, Black people have gained more economic success than ever before. Black people are not on par with Whites, but that time will come.

  • JustMe

     You are wrong. The vast majority of Black people are not poor. Over the last 40 years, Black people have gained more economic success than ever before. Black people are not on par with Whites, but that time will come.

  • Justme

    Deep down you are probably hoping that is what Black leaders think. How could you possibly know what Black leaders think deep down? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7HVL2ISWKMKOHNAMLPFDIQFRHY Exloonylib

    It’s pretty clear who the racist are and it ain’t the whites.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7HVL2ISWKMKOHNAMLPFDIQFRHY Exloonylib

    Except it’s probably very true.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7HVL2ISWKMKOHNAMLPFDIQFRHY Exloonylib

    Nope.  We have a deep seated hatred of socialist redistribution and we want to keep the money we earned through our hard work.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7HVL2ISWKMKOHNAMLPFDIQFRHY Exloonylib

    How come there isn’t a white caucus.  Oh, that’s right, that would be racist.

  • UpChuck.Liberals NoBO12

    Maxine puts the S in Stupid.  Sadly she’s too full of herself to realize it.

  • Anonymous

    Rep. Maxine Waters argued they were “getting tired” and “don’t know why on this trip… he’s not in any black community.”

    I know! You got punked. How ya like him now?

  • Anonymous

    I’m wee wee’d up.

  • john.kliber

    Not if it was Thomas Sowell rather than some arrogant fool raised on the racist idiocy of Jeremiah Wright and James Cone. That’s like a white guy campaigning with a Nathan Bedford Forrest t-shirt.

  • john.kliber

    Not if it was Thomas Sowell rather than some arrogant fool raised on the racist idiocy of Jeremiah Wright and James Cone. That’s like a white guy campaigning with a Nathan Bedford Forrest t-shirt.

  • Anonymous

    …until they learn to ignore his noise. I suspect he’s making a lot of black voters want to stay home. 

  • Gretchen Benedetto

     Tell me one option “like everyone else” is.

  • caconservative

    Maxine doesn’t know why Obimbo isn’t in any Black communities? Wow Maxine, would MONEY (or lack of), have anything to do with it?

  • BR

    Most blacks aren’t racist……….but most racists are black!

  • Anonymous

    How lame can you get? Any time a conservative points out any of Obama’s failings, there’s some dork on the left ready to label him a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, God forbid someone should test your patience! Maybe your intelligence needs to be tested after that idiotic post.

  • Anonymous

    Then why don’t you go away?

  • Anonymous

    LOL! I’d forgotten that line completely.

  • Anonymous

    Yours has apparently already exploded.

  • Anonymous

    Yours has apparently already exploded.

  • LADYLADY

    Nuf said! in spite of dear Maxines protestations

  • Anonymous

    You clowns have two cards to play. The big oil card or the race card other than your deaf mutes.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t Obama waive the $35,000 ticket fee for his birthday party for any blacks that wanted to attend?

    No? Then I would say he dissed the black community in Chicago and NYC !!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Douglas-Saunders/100000906467759 Douglas Saunders

    Just another “Big Mouth” spewing out hate and racism…she said a big mouthful and summed it all up when she said “I’m a politician”. People like herself will never come to terms with the fact that Caucasians owe them “NOTHING”. Being treated equal is not enough simply because they have this innate fear that they are not. Sorry Sister “I’m just keepin it real”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Douglas-Saunders/100000906467759 Douglas Saunders

    He is “All things” to “All peoples”….which just emphasizes his profound weakness as a leader….perhaps one word would define him….”PHONEY”

  • Ben D

    Why is Obama’s bus so black?Why won’t some other color do?Why is Obama’s bus so black?Why not purple, pink, or blue?

    Why is Obama’s bus so black?Why it ain’t some other hue,Spots or dots or technicolor?Why won’t some other color do?

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