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Home Front: Politix
Obama Accuses Trump of Exploiting Black Working-Class Fears
2015-12-22
[NYTIMES] President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign. Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House.

Demographic changes and economic stresses, including “flat-lining” wages and incomes, have meant that “particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck,” Mr. Obama said in the interview with National Public Radio.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Obama schlonked the middle class and then he blames Trump for it. Trumps not the one in power in the WH. There goes the race card once again.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-22 18:54  

#9  Trump points out the obvious and Obama calls it exploitation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2015-12-22 12:50  

#8  “That’s not to suggest that everybody who objects to my policies may not have perfectly good reasons for it,” the president added. He noted, as an example, that voters living in coal-dependent areas may blame him for the loss of their jobs.

I'm not sure if the NYT was going for subtlety, or was unintentionally ironic.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-12-22 08:59  

#7  I'm not at all certain the metrics of these 'fears' are significant enough to be tracked.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-22 08:50  

#6  I just hope Trump remembers Pym Fortyne.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-12-22 03:03  

#5  The 'beltway party' certainly lives in fear of this fellow Trump. Perhaps he's exactly what they need.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-22 02:28  

#4  Remind me again who killed the full time job in order to shove people onto the Obamacare plantation? And even with all that careful planning it really didn't work? Everything he touches turns to $hit.
Posted by: gorb   2015-12-22 01:16  

#3  exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign
Isn't that the point of the campaign, to hear the pain of the people? BO is grumbling because he/they never listened to real problems of the workers.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-12-22 01:07  

#2  Blue collar folks despise a man that never held a real job, never worked with his hands, is an abject failure affirmative action know nothing screwing up our insurance and economy. My kids are stuck with working thirty hour work weeks and existing on my insurance thanks to this failure.
Posted by: Tennessee   2015-12-22 00:37  

#1  Was he complaining that Donnie was taking a page from his play book?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2015-12-22 00:05  

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