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Obama Encouraged To Take Message To Blacks

Written by News One on September 8, 2009 11:42 am

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From BlackAmericaWeb.com:

As President Barack Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet as a result of the raging health care debate, some black professionals in Washington, D.C. are getting frustrated — and a bit fired up.

According to The Los Angeles Times, “the president’s overall approval now stands at 57 percent, down 12 points from April. Disapproval has jumped to 40 percent, the highest of his seven months in office.”

So there’s one pressing question that many African-Americans in D.C. are asking: Are black people actually being polled?

In beauty salons, barber shops and sports bars, many black Americans in the Washington, D.C. area have come to the defense of the nation’s first black president because they feel Obama is getting a raw deal on the health care debate, while others say they are tired of watching “fanatical” white people at town hall meetings scream at congressional leaders and refer to Obama’s health care plan as “socialism.”

Many black folks in D.C. – who supported Obama overwhelmingly in last year’s election — believe the aggressive town hall participants are all plants by Republicans — and they might be right.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    Can we stop with the lie that he is the 1st black president because it is very sad that we continue to eat all this lies of who this man is. He is the 6th black president, and he is the only or first black president without any slave blood in him.

    Also, no one cares about the approval rating because it doesnt stop the agenda of this administration to get implemented, and to sway the good people of this world to buy in to their political and social domination of a one world government.All you have to look at is Bush and his approval rating, on how good and bad it was.yet, he and his confidant bombed the world trade center, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without proper reasons, brought in high powered military expansion in the continent of Afrika, etc etc. And your messiah, Obama, is continuing the same path. research the housing decree that they implemented, foreign relation articulations, immigration, free trade laws, etc. etc.

    The color of the skin of the tenant might have changed in the white house, but the paint of the white house is still WHITE. wake up!!! you nedd to phrase god not obama.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DMY19151/ DMY19151

    WTF!…MY MAN..JAZZPAST…YOU SHOULD OF ELABORATED ON OBAMA BEING THE 6TH BLACK PRESIDENT…FOR REAL…A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD;’NT LIVE TO SEE A BLACK PRESIDENT…IT HAS HAPPEN,SO IN REALITY…THE PROOF IS THERE THAT WE CAN DO WHATEVER IT IS THAT WE WANT TO BE IN AMERICA…EVEN BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT….THE PROBLEM OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS+ IS THESE PUNK ASS PARENTS THAT LET THEIR CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY WANT AND TELL THEM WHAT TO DO…THAT’S WHY THE SCHOOL DROP OUT RATE IS HIGH AND THE YOUTH IS OUT OF CONTROL..WELL A BIG PART OF IT…WE GREW UP WITH RESPECT EVEN WE WERE DOING NEGATIVE…THESE DAYS….NOBODY HAS RESPECT FOR NO ONE..NOT EVEN THEIR SELF! SO LETS STAY POSITIVE AND HELP THE YOUTH OUT HERE..THEY NEED US!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/daqueen123/ daqueen123

    Will u people wakeup Obama is just another puppet in the white house doing what a house nigga is told and he’s misleading people who believe that he did represent change but the only change he’s doing is wearing a different high price suit while he assist this already corrupt government in this so call new world order remember my people GOD has the last word.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    President obama needs to man-up.what man stands around smiling while the lives of his wife and two little girls? He does’nt even act like or have the power of the pres.he is so afraid of offending white people that they can say and do whatever they want with nothing to fear. He is being belittled,degraded,pushed around,overlooked etc.right now he’s not really the president just a court jester for the republicans and white racist that know he’s afraid.

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