Obama Has Different Message For Blacks

The media will never dare point it out, but given the focus of his pending NAACP remarks, it's clear that Obama has a very different message for the black community, than the one he always advocates when addressing Americans as a whole.

Going all the way back to his campaign, his core vision and message has always been that government is here to help, with little or no emphasis on personal responsibility. Were he a white politician he would be accused of racism for this. But he clearly sees black America as having a different set of issues. Otherwise he wouldn't be emphasizing individual responsibility over collective government action, as he always does.

How about some of this take responsibility for yourself for the rest of America, Barrack? Frankly, they could use it right about now, instead of another Big Government plan. He constantly casts Americans as hapless victims of capitalists, or government that doesn't do enough. Not when he's addressing a black audience, evidently.

Obama will make clear that while the government can help, "individuals will have to take responsibility," according to Burton. The president is expected to make that point, in particular, on matters of education and economic opportunity. He is also expected to address health care, his dominant domestic priority.

Implicit in the appearance, Obama is seeking the backing of the powerful NAACP and its members for his ambitious domestic agenda.

Comments

[mark l.]

year after year, the real clout that is growing within the black culture is small business owners, in many ways crowding out the role that religion long held.

they hire within the community, they service in the community, the provide help within the community. can we say, "role models"? yes obama can pass out govt money to aid, but if you want to build the african american culture, you must make sure of small business growth.

funny how the wh is targetting small business under the assumption that they are only owned by white people. if they keep pushing, minority small business owners will start biting back.

[WBestPresidentEver]

At this point and time I am with Rush. I hope "it" the arrogant ass fails miserably.

God Bless America. Let the chips fall where they may.

Enough is enough !

[wally sandaver]

Riehl, Any support for your contention? "He constantly casts Americans as hapless victims of capitalists, or government that doesn't do enough."

"Constantly?" Certainly, Americans, especially Californians have been victims of W's Enron boys. And all Americans are facing the fallout from the derivatives scams that Wall ST. threw on us. But Where does Obama constantly claim Americans are "victims" of capitalists?"

[Slide]

Riehl living in Bizarro wingnut world said this nonsense: "Going all the way back to his campaign, his core vision and message has always been that government is here to help, with little or no emphasis on personal responsibility"

But of course the reality is quite different as this Feb 2008 article who's title is: An Unscripted Barack Obama Preaches Personal Responsibility In Texas"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/an-unscripted-barack-obam_b_89127.html

Or, how about his inauguration speech (that was for the whole country wasn't it Riehl?

Obama Speech Calls for 'Era of Responsibility'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Inauguration/story?id=6684375&page=1

Or maybe his Father's Day speech, "Obama's Father's Day Speech: Do Liberals Believe in Personal Responsibility?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-williams/obamas-fathers-day-speech_b_107341.html

Or his speech before congress which was described, "Personal responsibility and community/national service were messages he stressed, using examples of seemingly ordinary Americans’ extraordinary deeds."
http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/politics/2009/02/26/obamas-speech-outlines-plan-for-a-sustainable-future/

Guys... attack Obama all you want but don't you have to be just a tiny tiny bit factual?

[North Dallas Thirty]

I love it. Obama says that all Americans are victims of Wall Street, according to Wally, but that he doesn't claim all Americans are "victims".

And as for Obama's public pronouncements on "personal responsibility", they should be considered as everything else he says; whatever he needs to to get elected, subject to repeal when they become inconvenient.

Sort of like how Obama is now claiming he never said that the "stimulus" was in fact a "stimulus".

[mark l.]

so slide, where does the perosnal responsiblity kick in for bambi?

his brother living in a hut on 20 dollars a month?
his 'aunt zutti', who happens to be living in govt housing as an illegal alien?
his preacher?

you got a practical example of obama "doing" anything that you could offer to demonstrate his taking of reposniblity within his own life?

[mark l.]

i just caught some of naacp(?) speech...

'there was a time, when you saw a kid, acting up, and someone put a "whuppin" on him, even though it wasn't their kid.'

(audience laughs.)

the president talking about personal responsibility, and longing for the days when you could beat any kid on the street?

[mark l.]

"you got a practical example of obama "doing" anything that you could offer to demonstrate his taking of reposniblity within his own life?"

how is that "quitting cigarettes" thing going?

[Slide]

mark mark mark..... are you intentionally being silly or is it your natural way of being? hmmmm?

[seekeronos]

No really!

If my kid starts sassing me, or throwing a tantrum, I cannot spank him for fear that some busy-body would call CPS.

But The Zero talking about the days when (and I remember them too) when a bad child could expect to get cuffed by an adult for acting out of line?

How.... un-"progressive" of the Great Leader.

[mark l.]

"And by the way, it means we need to be there for our neighbor's sons and daughters. (Applause.) We need to go back to the time, back to the day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling around and -- it wasn't your child, but they'll whup you anyway. (Laughter and applause.) Or at least they'll tell your parents -- the parents will."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5168100.shtml

barack obama's america. beat kids, who aren't even your.

the funny thing baout this segment?
the fake "southern black voice" he used. he's no clinton, and too be honest, even gore sounded more southern.

he must be remembering his formative years, spent overseas, where they really would whack kids in the street.