As the campaign ran down, Obama found himself speaking largely to black audiences making specific appeals for the black vote. “You’ve got to get your family to vote. You’ve got to get your friends to vote. You’ve got to get your coworkers to vote,” Obama told a Maryland crowd in support of black gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown last month. Obama then awkwardly employed racial stereotypes to connect to his restless audience. “You’ve got to get that cousin Pookie sitting at home on the couch -- he’s watching football right now instead of being here at the rally -- you’ve got to talk to him and let him know it is not that hard to exercise the franchise that previous generations fought so hard to obtain.” So much for the “one people” claptrap. When Obama mentioned cousin “Pookie” or the “previous generations,” he was clearly not speaking to the white people in the audience. On the positive side, many of those in attendance at the Brown speech walked out. Said Steele, Democrats have begun to realize “that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.” Maybe, as people’s eyes open a little wider, we can become “one nation” after all. Read more: americanthinker/articles/2014/11/celebrating_six_years_of_broken_promises.html#ixzz3I740OHEJ Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:11:44 +0000
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