Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight

They did that last time and ended up with almost double the national average for unemployment. What did you stimulus do for them? Apparently not much unless they were owners of Solyndra or Evergreen. In Nov 2012, he'll have the same credibility problem with them as with the Latino's he promised action on Immigration in his first 100 days and some resolution in his first year. The first 2 full years Obama had an all Democrat controlled Congress, who did nothing. I doubt they'll be fooled again.

 

I wonder if Maxine told him to (*)(*)(*)(*) off

 

Blacks have more reason to hate Obama than anybody.

 

Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight


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.

The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he's to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday's speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.

He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," he said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way."

But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."

Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.

Obama said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they're open to some of the tax measures -- but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business.

But at times, Obama also sounded like he was discussing his own embattled tenure.

"The future rewards those who press on," He said. "I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."

Caucus leaders remain fiercely protective of the nation's first African-American president, but in recent weeks they've been increasingly vocal in their discontent -- especially over black joblessness.

"If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers.

Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members were dismayed by Obama's concessions to the GOP during the summer's talks on raising the government's borrowing limit.

Cleaver famously called the compromise deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich."

But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because "nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."

Still, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., caused a stir last month by complaining that Obama's Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is "supportive of the president, but we're getting tired."

Last year, Obama addressed the same dinner and implored blacks to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock."

What followed was a Democratic rout that Obama acknowledged as a "shellacking."

Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, there was a sharp drop-off two years later.

Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate at between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and it's worth noting off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters.

This year's caucus speech came as Obama began cranking up grass-roots efforts across the Democratic spectrum.

It also fell on the eve of a trip to the West Coast that will combine salesmanship for the jobs plan he sent to Congress this month and re-election fundraising.

Obama was leaving Sunday morning for Seattle, where two money receptions were planned, with two more to follow in the San Francisco area.

On Monday, Obama is holding a town meeting at the California headquarters of LinkedIn, the business networking website, before going on to fundraisers in San Diego and Los Angeles and a visit Tuesday to a Denver-area high school to highlight the school renovation component of the jobs package.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-tells-blacks-stop-complainin-fight-015928905.html


March for jobs and stop whining. Oh, and vote for the moron in chief again too.

 

"Get back on the plantation"

 

Some people are already there...

 

Yep, the welfare plantation. March for more gov't cheese.

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Do you have a link this time?
Or, just more headlines?

 

Those ****** Tom's throw a monkey wrench in the lefts victim/oppressor dichotomy, huh, Snitch?

 

Well, at least he skipped the line, "reward your friends and punish your enemies".

All in all, Obama is looking more & more like a frustrated coach who's down 48 - 0 going into the 4th quarter but keeps demanding his team stick to "HIS" game plan.
LOL...when he needs to "beg" for support from blacks, you know he's desperate.

 

And 40-ouncers. Don't forget about the 40-ouncers!

 

We gots reparations coming, yo....can't be jumpin off the cattle car to the promise land yet, dog!

 

Them's some ghetto beers, yo!

 

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."

I thought the problem was black unemployment was double the national average. Evidently, they don't have work to do. A new call for some government 'make work' perhaps?

 

Forget the 40-ouncers. Don't forget the 350 pounders! Yo, yo, Oh No!



no race has a monopoly on class.

 

That's what happens when you drink too many of those. It all goes to your butt.

 

Yep! Definitely too much Olde English getting "drank" at the White House by that hoodrat.

 

Agreed. But sometimes it doesn't spare the rest of your body.

 

He's calling for more violence in the streets, and he knows it. The only thing they will get out of that speech is FIGHT.
This guy is dangerous, I wish people would understand this...Does he really think ''Fight'' to them means peaceful Marches??? He knows exactly how they take it and will respond, it's a green light toward violence.

After it happens Obama will come out like the voice of reason and make like a National Hero...

 

Yep, supposedly 1 in 3 black people live in poverty and it's clearly all whitey's fault. Not sure why that is or what whitey has done to cause this but it's sure fun to have someone else to blame! Obama got called out on his class warfare, now he's trying his hands at race wars. This should be fun!

 

Barack Obama, the Flash Mob President

 

Over a half century of better than equal rights, and better than equality of opportunity hasn't been enough.....nor, will it ever be....

for, it is whitey funded "equality of outcome" the black "victim" seeks.

 

Obama's Black Liberation style preaching and Chicago ghetto "I'm like you" as in all he has to do to get the Black vote is to 'look Black,' (since in reality he is 1/2 white and grew up with all the white man's advantages, and the Black community purposely overlooks that 'truth!') is starting to run thin with his captive Black base. Voting beyond skin color and on principle is frowned upon and even a reason for persecution with the usual racist slur labels of 'Uncle Tom,' 'House Negro,' and 'Oreo,' etc.

Obama may have started out as a sincere 1/2 Black man trying to change Chicago..but he became the quintessential Chicago politician who will post-presidency become a Billionaire, but yet still identifying with the Black community as one who has successfully, in the white man's world, 'moved on up to the Eastside' along with Jesse & Al, and is deserving of all the 'bling' and adoration that accompanies that position...

 

Now that was pretty good.