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Obama Color Blind When It Comes to the Recession

Is the Barack Obama of “There is not a black America and a white America . . . but the United States of America” back? On Wednesday, 10 members of the Black Caucus  boycotted a key House committee vote on financial regulations to pressure their fellow members and the White House to focus more attention on targeting assistance to blacks and other minority businesses in the recession. But the president refused to be mau-maued by the caucus. In an interview with USA Today, President Obama said in response to a question about why he is not doing more to help blacks specifically:

The most important thing I can do for the African-American community is the same thing I can do for the American community, period, and that is get the economy going again and get people hiring again.

He may not have much of a clue about how best to do that, but at least he’s not turning the recession into a racial issue. Putting distance between himself and Maxine Waters or Jesse Jackson (whom I recently debated on “The Color of Recession” before a D.C. audience) is not only good politics; it’s also good policy.

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  1. J. Lichty says:

    Carter’s agenda has on it, whatever is most harmful to Israel, be that Hamas, Arafat or any other of the aleph bet of terror groups.

    He does not want to engage Hamas to moderate them, but rather to “moderate” Israel into surrending to concessions such as prisoner releases demanded by the Hamas.

  2. oao says:

    carter has not yet met a thug he did not want to talk to.

    one factor is his huge ego: he probably has convinced himself that he and only he can extract concessions from thugs, by seemingly playing against the US govt policies. the problem is the huge gap between his perception of himself and his utter stupidity, via which he lends himself as a useful idiot to all the enemies who want to manipulate him. typically, he is so stupid that he has no clue how stupid he is.

    another factor is that he is a whole owned subsidiary of the arab rich states.

    then there’s his bigotry and anti-semitism, reinforced by the jewish vote against him when he was ousted.

    it is pathetic what he will do to attract attention. unfortunately, he is shrewd enough to know that the so-called international community is now receptive to his nonsense.

    oao
    http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/