Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans when he’s doing so much damage to them?

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According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, Barack Obama is rated as the worst president since WWII. That’s no surprise to anyone actually paying attention to the last five years of failure. What’s interesting however is how 40% of the American population can still approve of the way he’s doing his job. Demographics may play a part in that. Americans are no different than people everywhere else. When we don’t have a great deal of information about something or someone we grasp for those things that are familiar to us, that are like us. It’s like when you go to a party where you don’t know anyone. If you see someone you know, even if you don’t like them much you’re likely go over and talk to them, at least until you see someone you actually like or would rather talk to. That’s because at least you will have something to talk about rather than just standing around feeling awkward.

And in the United States there are a lot of voters who don’t have a great deal of information. Indeed, only 65% of native born Americans can get a pitiful 6 out of 10 answers right on the citizenship test – vs. 93% of immigrants preparing to take the test. And those are basic facts that everyone learned in school rather than positions on sometimes difficult issues.

The bottom line is that many, perhaps a majority of American voters know practically nothing about what candidates actually stand for and what policies they support. As a result, many voters simply support candidates who are like themselves or have perceived shared experiences… In 2008 one might understand why Barack Obama carried 95% of the black vote, despite the fact that most voters – regardless of race – didn’t really know his positions. It was a historical event with a black man running for president on a major ticket in a country that started out with slavery legal in half of its states. It’s understandable. One has to wonder however, how four years later, he could still garner 93% of the black vote, and today with a plethora of further failures his approval rating still stands at 83% among black Americans.

One wonders how that figure can stand when Barack Obama has done so much to harm black families.He supports an increase in the minimum wage, which results in far fewer jobs for the unskilled, particularly youth. This hits black youth particularly hard, and the problem is worse today than when Obama took office. In 2009 the general unemployment rate in the US was 8% while for black youth it was 3.9 times higher at 31%. Fast forward after five years of Barack Obama and while the overall unemployment rate had dropped to 6.6% by February of 2014, for black youth it had actually grown to 38%, 5.9 times the rate of the general public.

With Obamacare Barack Obama has forced businesses, particularly small businesses, to limit the number of hours employees work so that they do not hit the full time threshold which would force those businesses to provide benefits that they often cannot afford. The result is fewer full time jobs for everyone, and those who need full time employment to support their families are forced to seek multiple part time jobs in order to make ends meet. The most recent jobs report demonstrates this with perfect clarity. The Obama administration crows at the fact that 288,000 net jobs were created in May, but what they don’t tell you is that 275,000 of them were part time jobs. And who is it that get that gets hurt by those far fewer full time jobs? Those with the highest unemployment rate, which happens to be blacks, with an unemployment rate of 10.7%, more than twice the 5.3% of white Americans.

The final item of curiosity is immigration, particularly illegal immigration. Barack Obama has opened the floodgates on our southern border, in essence inviting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to wade across the Rio Grande – or send their children or babies across with coyotes – in hopes of getting a foothold in the United States so that they can gain amnesty and eventually bring their entire families to the United States. That’s a bad thing for all Americans, but a very bad thing for black Americans. Why? Because those immigrants will be competing for and taking the jobs that many black Americans might otherwise be getting. Since 2000 there have been 5.7 million net jobs created in the United States. And how many of those jobs went to immigrants – both legal and illegal? Surprise: 5.7 million! That means that literally every single net job that has been created in the last 14 years has gone to immigrants, the majority of them illegal. And who are these new and largely uneducated immigrants going to compete with for jobs? Is it the 1% who have flourished and grown richer under Barack Obama. Probably not. It’s going to be entry level and lower income workers, a group disproportionately populated by black Americans.

So the real question is, not why 33% of whites still approve of Barack Obama’s job performance or 47% of Hispanics… in a country where apparently 45% of the population still believe in ghosts you have to expect that some people are immune to reason. No, rather it’s why 83% of black Americans still support a politician who is not only demonstrably incompetent, but one who seems to be doing so much to damage to black families. Jobs are at the core of success in America… not government programs, not government handouts, not government anything. It’s a job that gives most Americans their self respect, sense of accomplishment, and most importantly the connection to a society where they can work hard and succeed, in this job or that better job or by creating a job for themselves and start hiring others. And to the degree that Barack Obama has had any impact on jobs in the United States it has been a negative one, particularly for black Americans. Maybe it’s time to recognize that Barack Obama is bad for all Americans, regardless of his race or that of anyone else, and that maybe politicians should be evaluated on their policies rather than their pigmentation.

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Because he’s Blaaack!
No other reason.
Samuel L. Jackson (actor) says he supports Zero because he’s black.
He’s not black, of course.
He is half white and half Arab-African. We have been led to believe this, at any rate. His actual parentage cannot be determined from his birth certificate or his DNA. Both are hidden by the lawyers.
And he does not care about or for blacks. He owns them, as any Simon Legree would. Since he controls them, he need not concern himself with their opinions. They will vote the way he tells them. The New Black Panther Party will see to that, ably assisted by General Holder.
Big Secret: the lower-class black community is governed by oral tradition, not print. And oral tradition is based on telling stories. So the story is that Barack is a poor black child who fought his way to prominence and power, despite the opposition of the RICH. And this story is believed. You can’t defeat a story with facts. An alternate story is needed, to wit: Zero is the pawn of leftist and Saudi money powers, who want someone they control to favor Islam.
Get that other story out there!

Blacks admit they vote primarily by race if one of the candidates is black. Look at the losers in the Congressional Black Caucus or the mayors of black cities. Incompetence, stupidity, and outright criminal conduct are no bar so long as the skin color is black.

It’s not just race. It’s tribal, the oldest and most destructive of all ways to form governments. The blacks for the most part have gone tribal, and democrats are doing everything humanly possible to carve everyone else up into their own self-contained, insular, and defensive tribal groups. Cheers –

Let me guess. Because he cares about white children, right?

RACISM plane and simple!!

There is another calculation at work. Sure blacks voted for the first “black” president. OK, but thinking but understandable, especially among the low-info types. But even the more thoughtful are faced with this dilemma: if Obama fails, and it seems inevitable that he is and will, what will be the reason?
They realize that by touting him as this “black” demi-god, he will be seen as failing because he is black. Oh, most will scream “racism,” but they know perfectly well their unmitigated support for O based on his race makes it possible to dismiss his crashed presidency on his race. Thus, they have become bitter-enders, inside their bunkers, unwilling to concede that their support, often in contravention of their own values, was wrong, that they should have had a better reason for supporting this guy, then propping him up at any cost.

first line but=bad

Ah, the haters, losers and liars are out in full force tonight.

Race has nothing to do with his failure as a president. Lack of experience and arrogance has everything to do with his failure. Kerry would have done no better.

Randy,

Is this stated as you intended?:
“Kerry would have done no better.”

@Randy:

Race has nothing to do with his failure as a president.

Agreed, it his failure is not due to his race but his socialist upbringing. It is because as an executive he is incompetent at how he should be doing the job, because his warped, anti-imperialist Marxist focus is fully on reducing the US into a third world country. He want’s to make this nation equal to the pathetic corrupt governance and squalor under which his father existed, and where he spent his boyhood. Obama is a sociopath bent on vengeful destruction of a nation that embraced him and raised him up to the highest office of the land.

However, to the original premise of this article. Racism and pride in one’s own race, is the only reason that some blacks reelected Obama, because they apparently couldn’t bear the thought of the first “black” president serving only one term, no matter how bad he is. I have little doubt that racism is why some blacks continue to vote for certain politicians of their race who have been proven incompetent, corrupt, and who have even served prison time for their crimes.

There are of course, shining examples of black leadership that are worthy of praise by all Americans. It is truly sad that the disreputable, corrupt and terrible ones are supported to nearly as much high esteem by blacks, as the best of them.

Randy & Ditto:

There is no argument race makes for O’s failure. My point is how many in the black community see his obvious failures. They fear that he has thrown the onus on the black race as a whole and not him as an individual. They also have tremendous emotional investments in his success.

@NotinsomeGodforesakeplace: Kerry is arrogant and lacks the experience to be an executive. He married well and used her money. There also is an ethical component to leadership. Neither Obama nor Kerry practices ethical leadership.

@MAKAYA: Yes, black people do have a real investment in Obama and his success. They could look at his Arab or white genes and blame them.

My FA decent brethren, I feel a bit silly in that I mistook a comment about Kerry to be about Romney. I suspect some of you wondered WTF is with me. Methinks selfless dedication at work and sleep deprivation are involved. (In my life experience I see such as a common characteristics of conservatives.) My apologies to Romney. I think he would have been, will be, good for our country, the planet, humanity. I long for a President that does not have serious personal issues, can do something constructive . . . and is not a turd. Hmmm, I smell an audit.

To be clear, I do not have respect for Kerry. But I do have respect for Carson, West, Love, Cain. Sent them support funds albeit miniscule.

OFF TOPIC
High five to D’Souza! Watched it this past w/e. I perceived that the average IQ in the theater was unusually high:
No kids watching adult material
Zero texting
Lots of courtesy
Parents bringing their kids!

@NotinsomeGodforesakeplace:

Well now, I’m not at all supportive of the idea of Romney (or any other RINO) for president, but that doesn’t mean I wish him ill. Otherwise I think we can give you a Mulligan. Let he who is without sin cast pearls before swine and call the kettle black.

NotinsomeGodforsakeplace
YES, I WAS WONDERING ALSO,
I re read RANDY’S COMMENT, twice,
TO UNDERSTAND, and couldn’t find an error,
IT MIGHT BE THE LAST LINE WITH THE (NO) YOU OVERLOOK,
it happen to me a few times, also,
BYE

i don’t think that MITT ROMNEY WILL RUN,
RICK PERRY WOULD BE GREAT, he has proved it,
HE SURE WOULD MAKE THE BORDER SO THIGHT THAT NO ONE COULD PASS, BECAUSE HE KNOW HAVING BEEN SO CLOSE TO IT,
HE WOULD BRING THE MARKET BACK IN AMERICA, AND THAT MEAN JOBS,
OIL FROM THE KEYSTONE GOOD FOR 400 years,
AND keep the money for AMERICANS needs,IN AMERICA FIRST PRIORITY,
and he would fix the imigration problem, for all to get answer to what they want ,
AND, RE PUT THE AMERICA EXCEPTIONALISTON TARGET THE PRIDE OF THE USA TO WHERE SHE REALY BELONG,
HE WOULD FIX THE VETERAN”S HOSPITALS BIG PROBLEMS ONCE AND FOR ALL,
and many more skills, left in his pocket, and his CREW of super smart people TO PUT THEIR HEART AND MIND ON THE NEED OF THE PEOPLE, with 100 per cent
allegiance to AMERICA ONLY, AND OUT WITH THE COPYCAT WHO FOLLOW UP
TO PLEASE THE OTHER, OR TOO LAZY TO WORK,

These blacks are going to pay the heaviest price for their racism. Yet, they obviously don’t have what it takes to realize that half black and half white 0Muslim doesn’t care a darn thing about them, their families, or their race (unless, of course, they happen to be Muslim).

Meanwhile, these racist blacks and their “moment in the spotlight” will soon come to an end once the ever-growing numbers of Hispanics displace them.

@ilovebeeswarzone: I am not so sure about Rick Perry. Do some research into his background. He isn’t what he appears.

@FMB42: The really sad part it will be a long long time before another black person (be it man or woman) is elected into this office. obama has ruined it for all of the black people that could and would make a difference.

There are currently over 44 million blacks in the USA.
We shouldn’t presume to be able to get into their heads, individually or collectively.
Only 17.8 million blacks voted in the presidential election in 2012.
One interesting fact from this 83% number is how much lower it is than Obama’s vote percentage of the black voters which was 96%.
Of course, as I’ve pointed out many times, a poll is different from a vote.
The latest Quinnipiac poll, however, only includes voters.
So, it proves that a few voting blacks have become disillusioned with Obama’s job as president.
WHY?
Or, as asked by Vince, Why not MORE?
I looked at what black writers have said.
It is very interesting……
Obama’s ”failures” are seen as structural of the US gov’t, not personal.
Blacks are told to get better organized and to be more patient instead of being angry at Obama for failing to deliver.

@Nanny G: ” …Blacks are told to get better organized and to be more patient instead of being angry at Obama for failing to deliver. ” and this is why nothing will get better. Instead of taking responsible and doing something on their own they have adopted the plantation mentality.

ENCHANTED
HI,
can you give us a clue? ON THIS,
what i notice is his today actions, i find very solid values that a PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE,
he has demonstrated that he has those values,
we have to rally around a solid knowledgeble proven human being, because that position will demand ,
very difficult decisions, which will rock the boat, for years to come,
and i see his resolve to do what is necessary, even if he has to pinch his nose to achieve it,
we have seen that not all can become president, the good look of one which apeal to a croud is futile,
the skilled mouth jargon is futile no not good enough, the lies are the ones that only show after they get the job, and so many people are bought to vote, it is a more difficult climing to get it TO THE TOP,
because the people have to discerned the underneat of the person, THEY FAIL MISERABLY, which is the deep core, as we discovered now, TOO LATE,
so if look don’t pass, if words don’t pass, who is discerning enough to have found the real noble able,
GOD INSPIRED LEADER, who I ask ?
WE SURE HAVEN’T GOT A GOD INSPIRED LEADER NOW, HE HAS BEEN PUSH BACK TO NOWHERE, SO TO NOT OFFEND WE HAVE OFFEND GOD INSTEAD, HOW STUPID ARE WE ?
SO TAKE THAT NEED TO HAVE, AS NUMBER ONE REQUIREMENT,
WHICH A LEADER MUST HAVE TO WIN, THE PRESENT ONE ONLY USE GOD WHEN IT FIT HIS NEED, HE USE THE FLAG ONLY WHEN IT FITS HIS NEED, HE PREFER THAT UGLY ROUND LOGO,
WITH THE BLOODY LINES, WHICH LOOK LIKE THE BLOODY FINGERS OF THE AMBASSADOR PRINTED ON THE WALL OF BENGHASI AS THEY DRAGGED HIM OUT,
AND IF THE CANDIDATE HAS GOD WITH HIM, HE HAS MORE,
BECAUSE HE IS NOT ALONE, HE HAS HELP FROM GOD, AND FOLLOW HIS 10 COMMANDS, ASK HIM TO DESCRIBE THE 10TH,
BUT WE HAVE TO FIND IT TO BE TRUE, NOT ONLY IN WORDS
BUT NO HUMAN IS PERFECT,AND WE CANNOT ELECT AN ALIEN,
BUT THE BEST TO FIT THE EXCEPTIONAL AMERICA,
and we have the best of them right here,

I agree with you 100% enchanted. 0Muslim has pretty much ruined everything for everyone.

Things could be worse for us tho… we could be him…

This one
you got to hate your COUNTRY to come here with those stupid words,

@This one: Yes, I see you are! I also see you again failed to add any intelligent comments to the discussion as usual.

It’s actually not a mystery why blacks support Obama. Sure, some do because he’s black – Obama admits as much – just as some whites don’t support him for the same reason. It’s tough sometimes reading these articles on race written by hard right conservatives, because right below the surface is this insinuation that blacks just intellectually don’t know what’s best for them. I guess they’re seen as largely the low information voters the author laments, who would be better off taking direction from white conservatives. But this premise, or insinuation, or whatever it is, that blacks support Obama because he’s black is demonstratively false. While some blacks may have voted for, and continue to support, Obama exclusively because he’s black, most voted for him because he’s a Democrat. Here are a few comps: 88% of blacks voted for lily white John Kerry. 90% voted for Al Gore. 84% for Bill Clinton (96), 83% for Bill Clinton (92). Anyone seeing a pattern here? So perhaps the author is overplaying for effect the issue of Obama’s race. Does anyone here actually believe blacks would have voted for Herman Cain over Hilary Clinton? Not likely. Black Americans overwhelmingly vote Democrat for reasons beyond skin color. Making a big deal about Obama’s race is an easy way to play to the peanut gallery (great comments, by the way, guys), but it’s a fundamentally flawed, and perhaps intentionally provocative, reading of the voting patterns and political leanings of black Americans.

the previous leader of the BLACK PANTHERS, made a speech on YOU TUBE,the other day,
I happen to see it, it was brilliant all to the end,
he was telling of the great divide done by OBAMA since he was PRESIDENT,
HE TALK ABOUT HOW THE BLACK ARE UNDER A TRANSE AND SHOULD DETACH THEMSELF FROM THE TRANSE THEY HAVE BEEN STUCK TO OBAMA, with that nefarious transe, keeping them divided from
the other citizens as it was plan to be, so to get control of the BLACK PEOPLE,
so he was pleading with them to get away from that evil attraction, which is keeping them locked in their
divide they where put in
i read it all and thought that was the best speech i ever heard, MANY LINES ON IT,
WHICH I JUST REPEAT IN MY OWN WORDS AND ONLY THE ONES CLOSER TO THE REALITY,
I MYSELF NOTICE BEING DONE, SINCE THE BEGINING OF HIS FIRST TERM,
he was right on the needle tip,

Tom,

When committed black Baptists who are adamantly against abortion and homosexuality vote for Obama, twice, it is not because he is a democrat.

@MAKAYA:

Sorry, MAKAYA, but I fear you’re mistaken. While religious blacks identify as conservative more than liberal,

Like the overall population, African-Americans are more likely to describe their political ideology as conservative (32%) or moderate (36%) than as liberal (23%).

they also overwhelmingly – t0 a much greater degree – identify as Democrat than Republican.

Regardless of their religious background, African-Americans overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party. The 2007 Landscape Survey finds that more than three-quarters of all African-Americans (76%) describe themselves as Democrats or say they lean toward the Democratic Party, while just 10% favor the Republicans. Across all religious groups, at least two-thirds of African-Americans express support for the Democratic Party. Among the total population, by comparison, less than half (47%) describe themselves as Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party, while 35% support the GOP. This unity of partisanship among African-Americans carries over into the voting booth, where they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic presidential candidates in recent elections (95% for Barack Obama in 2008 and 88% for John Kerry in 2004).

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/a-religious-portrait-of-african-americans/

Perhaps you need to stop thinking of religious concerns solely in your own narrow personal terms. Why do black religious conservatives vote Democrat – before and after Obama? I would be curious to hear your view. Can you objectively, and with empathy, give me a reason? Zero points will be awarded for “government handouts”.

Tom
that is a narrow accounting,
perhaps you can recount it as for now,
you have data from 2007 THERE,
the world has changed since 2007,
try 2014,

Tom,

Regretfully, I can only rely on personal experience and not culled polling data. Your misplaced snark about “government handouts” is irrelevant and reflects your prejudiced worldview and not reality. My church members are overwhelmingly employed, middle class, with a strong military presence, from privates to colonels. They are bankers, teachers, butchers, barber, bureaucrats (lots of B’s in there) and yet they voted for Obama. Now, there was some prejudice involved: Romney was considered an outsider due to his Mormonism-but these people would never break their deep religious convictions due to mere party loyalty. They supported Obama for the color of his skin, not the content of his character.
I strongly suggest you get to know some black folks instead of reading about them.

MAKAYA (the word, by the by, is Badjambi).

@Tom:
Tom, go back and read about the California black vote when the gay marriage proposition was on the ballot.
Blacks did help Democrats win that election.
But it was the black vote against legalizing gay marriage that led to the gay marriage issue going to courts as opposed to voters.
Black voters are more conservative when it comes to such social issues as gay marriage.
Perhaps one of the reasons black VOTERS in the poll have become less in favor of the job Obama is doing lays there.
They can see Obama use courts to over-rule the voters on this gay issue along with quite a few other issues of religious freedom.

Vince, some black Americans actually have way more common sense than the vast majority of our MSM and 40% of the voters — here is an article by Mychal Massie which the self-hating socialists would have difficulty arguing with: Why I Do Not Like The Obamas
Sample, . . .

. . . . . I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no, I demand respect for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?

Presidents are politicians, and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie; but, even using that low standard, the Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge, and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.

I do not like them because they both display bigotry overtly: as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates when Obama accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and as in her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely; but he could rise to the highest, most powerful position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same.

I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met; he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance; Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 in bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nauseum. . . . . . .
—-
Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their playing the race card.

It is my intention to do all within my ability to ensure their reign is one term. I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the media for refusing to investigate them as they did President Bush and President Clinton and for refusing to label the Obamas for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people as these two are permitted out of fear for their colour. . . . .

It’s still puzzling that 83% support him after the damage he has done — and there’s more to come. What is just around the corner will be worse for anyone looking for a job.

good speech, he told the truth,

I bypassed the bulk of Vince’s diatribe as well as the usual responses from the seal impersonating alcolits clapping and cheering “ork ork ork” and will simply make a point on the title: “Why does Barack Obama have an 83% job approval rating among black Americans when he’s doing so much damage to them?”

Aside from the rhetoric and unsubstantiated argument that Obama has done”so much damage to them”, the true argument that minorities might have is why didn’t or isn’t Obama doing more to protect them from the Plutocratic harm the opposition Party has in store for them.

What you have to understand is that once you pull the curtain closed at the election booth, you really only have 1 of 2 choices. I’ll concede that I believe Obama has come up short in honoring or protecting many of progressive’s initiatives but the kicker is that someone like Romney or a radical right House and Senate (it does amuse me how conveniently you folk forget the role of the legislative branch and the actual operation of government in order to advance your ODS agenda) are literally out to destroy them entirely.

I think the best analogy came from comedian Bill Maher when he said:

But when it comes to voting, when we only have two choices, you’ve got to grow up and realize there’s a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That’s what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they’d be your relatives.

But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter “D”? Because it’s a grade that means good enough, but just barely.

You know why the Republican symbol is “R”? Because it’s the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.”

Now that not only holds true to African Americans but to women, other minorities, blue collar workers, and hell, anyone not of the upper 1% earner. And until today’s corporately owned GOP can bring themselves to be representative of that 99% (which they can’t because, well, the 1% owns them), it’s highly unlikely they’ll rule the oval office again. All they have are lies, distortion, and 2 bit hack sites helping sell such such nonsensical snakeoil because, uh, they just really hate the black guy in the White House.

Quite ignorant tools one of reasonable intelligence might ask? As my child growing up in those teenage years would have likely answered, “duh?”.

Ronald J. Ward
so many words to attack the CONSERVATIVES, YOU HATE BECAUSE THEY ARE SMARTER THAN YOU,
I bet you are consumed on it and your gutts are full of cancer,
DESTROYED BY THE EXPLOSION OF YOUR OVER CHARGE BILE which you yourself produce,
by hating other better than you,
YOU ARE GETTING SMALLER EVERYTIME YOU SHOW UP,

@MAKAYA:

My church members are overwhelmingly employed, middle class, with a strong military presence, from privates to colonels….They supported Obama for the color of his skin, not the content of his character.

Obviously, you would know your fellow church goers better than me, so I won’t dispute your personal interpretation of their actions. I can only point out – again – that not all Christians define Christianity as narrowly as you seem to. You bring up abortion, but many Christians I know don’t support capital punishment. Who do they vote for then? Many Christians believe in social justice and preferential option of the poor and vulnerable. Should they vote for the gutting of social safety nets and the ongoing institutional mass imprisonment of black men? I’m a little disappointed you couldn’t arrive at a plausible explanation for your black friends’ voting for Obama outside of his skin tone, despite the fact, statistically speaking, that almost every black who voted for Obama voted for white Democrats long before Barack Obama ever became a known political quantity. That’s a strange filtering of time and history and fact to arrive at a conclusion that only works since 2008.

I strongly suggest you get to know some black folks instead of reading about them.

I appreciate that advice. Thank you.

Tom

What? I am defining Christianity? Where pray.

And I believe I told you why people in my church, good people all, voted for Obama. It was due to the color of his skin, not the content of his character. And do sometime go to a good ol’ fashion black Baptist service to get a flavor of the culture.

Fo wouma me. bis?

That was Quinipac.
This is Zogby:
John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that the troubles dogging President Obama and his inability to handle them have prompted even his most ardent supporters to give up.
He said:

It just seems that even those who have been so hopeful of this president are finally just giving up. Things just appear to be out control, at least out of his control. A very bad week.
Grade: F

Now, recently Obama supporter Jon Stewart refrained from openly being critical of Obama, but he did hold back from any praise at all.
The late night comedians are all making fun of Obama.
Many in his own party are piling on.
Even Wendy Davis, running for Gov of Texas, refused to be seen with Obama.
Jesse Jackson wanted that billions of dollars spent, not on illegals, but on inner-city poor.

Something tells me that the few Obamabots here are feeling more and more lonely every day.

Short answer: because we’re used to it. Who kills Black people? Black folks. Who betrays, robs and suppresses us when we get close to success? Us.

Ronald J Ward: Are we Men to be Ruled? In America?

BOB BECKLE
is a nut case like the SCARED DEMOCRATES,
the conservatives will do a better job,
without attempting to rule like dictator,
they love the freedom for all AMERICANS
THEMSELVES INCLUDED,
THEY HAVE A CODE OF CONDUCT, AND THEY LIVE ON IT,

Well, it seems that some Blacks are finally starting to realize that they’ve been used by the con-artist liberal DemRino party of one.

Unfortunately these Blacks have learned this way too late in the game to do anything about it now. Sorry to say it, but the way things are going now means that the liberal DemRino party will have little or no use for Blacks in just a few short years.

At this point the only thing that Blacks can do politically is to vote for true conservatives. And there aren’t many of those around these days (thanks mainly to the PC governed media, public schools, and “entertainment” industries).

FMB42
i won”t let them down, we will remind the people how qualifyed the CONSERVATIVES are, and diserving to lead this tolerant
AMERICA, where no one should be punish like it is now,
that only criminals are in prison,
and only the best who merit to be elevated to the highest POSITION , DEMAND THE KNOWLEDGEBLE PEOPLE SO TO FACE AND FIX SWITFLY THE PROBLEMS NOT CREATE IT,
and 100/cent allegiance to THIS AMERICA,
THE CONSERVATIVES ,TALK LESS THAN THE DEMOCRATS,
BUT THEIR ACTIONS WOULD TALK FOR THEM,
WE PROOVE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, JUST CHECKING RICK PERRY’S’ACTIONS TELL IT A LOT, OVER THE FLOW OF FOREIGNERS PROBLEMS, WHICH THE PEOPLE DIDN’T NEED,
LATELY. AND, IN THE PREVIOUS FAILURE ON THE VETERAN’S HOSPITALS DEATHS OF NOT COUNTING THOSE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY DID NOT SEE THE CARE COMMING,
TO EASE THEIR PAIN, MANY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SAVE,
AND DELAYED NEEDS , BY EMPLOYEES UNIONIZE WITH A BEST EARNINGS ONE CAN FIND PLUS BONUS VACATION AND HEALTHCARE FOR THEMSELF, THE REAL CAKE WITH CREAM ON TOP.
YET THEY FAIL TO GIVE THE REQUIRED CARE, THEY ROB THE SICK VETERANS,
HIDDING THEIR CULPABILITY, FOR TOO LONG, THAT BECAME KILLER OF THE MANY SICK VETERANS, A REAL MONSTER COLLECTIVE ACTION, diserving the wrath of the CITIZENS.
and IRS SCANDAL COVERED BY THE ADMINISTRATION,
that is not the way CONSERVATIVES WORK, their compassion is at the right place, NOT ON FOREIGNERS NEED OF STAMPS,
BUT FOR the AMERICANS, THE SICK MILITARYS, THE PEOPLE IN NEED, ALL AMERICANS
BABIES AND MOTHERS, jobs for the father,
NO NEED TO BRING FOREINERS, THE DEBT IS OF SOON,
20 TRILLIONS, before he leave,THAT IS TO PAY, not to leave to the futur CITIZENS,
bye

Conservatives promote success based on self-reliance, while the DemRinos promote failure based on (public assistance sponsored) dependency.

Self-reliant people can vote for any candidate or party they like.

Dependent people, on the other hand, are bribed to vote for the same old DemRino party. Such voters are, of course, as dependent on the DemRino party as the party is on them.

Imo, this is the real difference between the two.

Maybe that whole IQ of 80, the handouts, the excuses, the feeling of entitlement that the excuses and handouts generate, plus a good dose of tribal racism.