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I really believe that Bernie Sanders doesn’t care about the black vote in that he wants the black vote, but if he doesn’t get it he’s okay with that. I think that Sanders mentally is stuck back in the 60’s when it comes to the way he views African Americans. I think that Sanders admired the young black fire brands of the 60’s, I think that it instilled in him the way that he thinks African Americans should act. But Bernie’s problem is that he got left behind, those young black fire brands of the 60’s are now doctors and lawyers and teachers that now believe that to make a social change you must work within the system and not look for ways to blow up the system. I bet if you could read Bernie’s mind it would say “why aren’t these blacks out there raising hell and trying to blow up the system.” But what Bernie doesn’t understand is that in fact we are out there blowing up the system, we’re just doing it by becoming the first African American Attorney General, the first Latino Supreme Court Justice. That is how we blow up the system. You blow up the system by displaying a picture of a little black boy touching the hair of the first African American President in the Oval Office. That one picture alone is more powerful than anything Bernie Sanders has said since he decided to run for President.
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Thanks for making your voices heard! MT @CandiceQuarles In line to vote #FreedomSundayTX @fhunscripted #NoVoteNoVoice pic.twitter.com/kv3hAQgGdU
— Wendy Davis (@WendyDavisTexas) October 26, 2014
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https://twitter.com/AbouAmara/status/526439477313822720
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https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/526501145720913920
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Representing @NewLifeDecatur. With DeKalb County, GA Pastors who led members to the polls 2 vote. #SoulsToThePolls pic.twitter.com/mf6dKyOq90
— Donna Bowman (@DSTBronze5) October 26, 2014
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He knows the importance @PasMarlinHarris @NewLifeDecatur of #SoulsToThePolls #VoteEarly #PostThePeach pic.twitter.com/2UPtTnuoIG
— Dana L. Lemon (@DanaLLemon) October 26, 2014
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Barack Obama in 1992 as director of Project Vote; which achieved its goal of registering 150,000 African American voters
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Where the hell were these blackademics before 2008?
They damn sure didn’t help the black farmers get their money, they damn sure didn’t get black people health insurance, and they damn sure didn’t help our black gay brothers and sisters from getting kicked out of the military.
So where the hell were they?
I’ll tell you where they were, they were at each other’s schools sitting on some fucking panel theorizing about how to end racism or make it better for African Americans.
But do you know where President Obama was?
He was out in the streets registering people to vote, he was condemning an unjust war before it became fashionable to do so.
We got pictures of Barack Obama fresh out of college walking in poor black neighborhoods registering people to vote.
We got pictures of a young Barack Obama helping black folk.
We got pictures of a young Barack Obama sitting in a village in Kenya breaking bread with his grandmother.
And these same motherfuckers want to question his blackness
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Barack Obama in Chicago, 1995, photo by Marc PoKempner
Illinois State Senator Barack Obama at a community meeting in his district with his state representative (second from right) House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie
Barack Obama in his first year at Harvard Law School after working at Developing Communities Project as a community organizer from 1985 – 1988 where he set up a tenants rights organization, job training program, and college preparatory program. He enrolled at Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988 so as to better help his community
This photo released by Obama for America shows Barack Obama teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. After Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, joined a small civil rights firm, ran a voter registration drive, and lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School
Barack Obama with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama in her home in the village of Nyagoma-Kogelo, western Kenya, 1987
Barack Obama at an antiwar rally in Chicago in September 2002
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After his graduation from Harvard Law School, working on a voter registration drive in Chicago
President Obama stands with Vice President Biden in the Green Room of the White House prior to delivering a statement on the economy in the East Room, Nov. 9 (Pete Souza)
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The People’s View: Because the President Won Re-election…
32 million additional Americans will gain health insurance, instead of about 70 million losing it.
Health insurance companies won’t be allowed to drop you because you get sick, or discriminate against you because you have a pre-existing condition.
Employers will not be allowed to inject their moral beliefs into the health care choices of their employees.
International family planning funding won’t dry up just because the groups receiving the funding discuss abortion as an option (though not pay for it with US funding).
Federal student loans won’t be handed over to banks with an extra subsidy…..
Read the full list here
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Must-see – Your Moment of Gloat!
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NYT Editorial: On Tuesday, voters re-elected a president who promised to fight for higher taxes on the wealthy, for more public investment and for careful cuts in spending. Three days later, President Obama challenged Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, right now, and said he would not accept a deal that does not require the wealthy to pay a bigger share.
… John Boehner, recycled positions that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan already offered, and voters rejected …. These were the opening hands in negotiations that start next week: Mr. Boehner’s weak hand and Mr. Obama’s strong one.
…. Negotiators will have time to reach the type of accord Mr. Obama described on Friday: “Reduce the deficit while still making the investments we need to build a strong middle class and a strong economy.”
That is what he campaigned on, and won on.
Full editorial here
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Washington Post: President Obama and the white vote? No problem.
….. while Obama did lose white voters by 20 points to Mitt Romney, he still won a clear popular vote victory – with a majority of his total vote nationwide coming from white voters.
Take a look at the chart that shows the percentage of white voters supporting the Democratic candidate all the way back to 1972.
Obama’s 39 percent showing among white voters matched the percentage that Bill Clinton received in 1992 — albeit it in a competitive three-way race — and exceeded the percentage of the white vote earned by Walter Mondale in 1984, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George McGovern in 1972.
…. In the end, President Obama’s “problem” with the white vote wound up being less than advertised — and certainly less problematic to his political prospects than Mitt Romney’s 44-point loss among Hispanic voters.
More here
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Mooooooooorning everyone 😉
11:50: Michelle Obama joins elected officials to announce public and private sector commitments for her Let’s Move! initiative in Pennsylvania (CNN live streaming)
12:30: Jay Carney briefs the press (White House live)
2:25: President Obama honors the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion Baylor Bears (White House live)
4:15: Michelle Obama is briefed on tornado recovery by local officials in Birmingham, Alabama and meets children affected by the storm (CBS live streaming)
5:40 President Obama attends a campaign event at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Closed press)
6:00: Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a campaign fundraising event in Birmingham
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Steve Benen: In 2008, Latino voters overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama over John McCain, siding with the Democrat by a 36-point margin, 67% to 31%, according to exit polls. The president won’t be able to improve upon this, will he?
Actually, he might. Latino Decisions released a new poll this morning, pointing to an even larger gap between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, with the president leading 70% to 22%. It’s the first time in nearly two years of Latino Decisions polls that Obama has reached this level of support.
More here
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Chat away 😉
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