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2011-09-16 Home Front: Politix

Travis Smiley sez Obama ignoring 95 percenters.

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-16 03:45|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 What's a Travis Smiley?

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-16 08:29|| 2011-09-16 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 "That's not hating on the President, it's defending your own flanks. And whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes the spoils? If anybody ought to be looked out for, it ought to be the persons who represent the most significant and the most loyal part of the base. That would be African-Americans."

That's why they call it a spoils system. There's an inherit problem when you're a member of a community that identifies with itself [us against everyone else] and you happen to be only 12 percent of the entire population. Re-segregating rather than integrating because you believed it would give your power doesn't always work out as planned, particularly when you have someone you can't play that victim card on.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-16 08:41|| 2011-09-16 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 95 might be a bit high but the number is in the 70s somewhere. The number of folks that think Obama is unqualified and corrupt. He's been ignoring them for some time. Glad to see Tavis is noticing.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-16 08:58|| 2011-09-16 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Universal principle: if your political support can be taken for granted, it will be.

Posted by Mike 2011-09-16 09:26|| 2011-09-16 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Smiley says he understands that President Obama is taking the "political risk" looking "tribal" if he were to look out for the concerns of his race.

Can you imagine the shit storm if, say, a white guy said that?

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-09-16 09:39|| 2011-09-16 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Check out this meatball's bio. Especially under "College and political career".

He sounds like a bright and ambitious scoundrel, getting every possible freebie, and still trying to graft more, with "begging for sex", as it were, being a strong point.

He is masterful at manipulating liberals, and utterly devoid of ethics. Rather paradoxical.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-16 10:35|| 2011-09-16 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The Democrats have been taking the Black vote for a ride for almost fifty years. SCLC and the NAACP have sold their constituencies down the river for a seat at the table of power.

The Blacks have been voting for "hope and change" since Kennedy and the result has been legislation designed to make them a captive constituency and completely fractured and dysfunctional. The destruction of the traditional Black family is almost complete. All of the upper middle class Black families I know are staunchly opposed to what is going on.

The guy that lives across the street from me with the Bentley Continental Coupe in his garage and the dozen Subway franchises would sooner play NFL football naked than wath Tavis Smiley on TV. He gets migraines when Obumble's name is mentioned.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-09-16 10:43|| 2011-09-16 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama doesn't have the worry about placating the 'black vote' - he knows that that particular bloc would never even think of leaving the plantation.

I mean - where would they go? They are addicted to entitlements.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-09-16 12:06|| 2011-09-16 12:06|| Front Page Top

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