CBC tells Obama: You are Failing AAs.
02 December 2009 11:27 pm by texan4hillary
http://tinyurl.com/yj8qhxl
CBC writes to Obama urging him to do more for the AA community an d less for wall st. they also boycotted the fin. reg vote today. and are threatening much more. fight on rep waters!
oh and to show the deep rifts growing with obama and his base sen sanders tonight put a hold on the renom of Bernake. this buys time for opponents fo the fed in the senate to drum up their case against putting Bernake back in.
Such times.
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The CBC making that request of Obama now really presents him with a problem – he must position himself as being POTUS for all the people. His problem is that OBAMA startd by covering the Big Cats on Wall Street – almost all white – instead of dealing with the multi-ethnic Main Street.
His problems are of his own making. It never needed to be this way.
I have to take issue with the CBC…..I’m sorry but last I checked its called …ahemmm…”The United States Of America”, not “The United States of African-American”. President Obama is failing us all. When he doesnt work to break up these “Too big to fail” banks but can’t write a tarp check fast enough He is failing America. When he doesn’t provide solutions so that the 15 million out of work Americans can get back to work…thats FAILING America. When we wait until December to hold a Jobs summit as if those 15 million unemployeed workers can ask their Mortgage holders or landloards to wait until December…thats failing America. This President, Not the Past dip-sh*t, nor the future President (Hopefully anyone who knows how to fight for what is right….que Hillary Clinton) Should stop date nighting and state dinnering and get to work. America is Failing.
Why being independent is more important:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/business/03fed.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In the end, Obama knows he’ll have the CBC’s support.
For those of you who might care, and Lord knows that doesn’t include djjl and serularhuman who have both decided on a narrative and are sticking to it no matter what the facts tell them, here is how our money was stolen by the FED and AIG. This process was purposely made complicated by the FED but here are the highlights. AIG received $182 billion in bailout money. $85 billion came from the FED (keep in mind that the FED is a PRIVATELY owned bank) and $97 billion came from the US Treasury Department. The FED foisted $43 billion of the money that it lent ($85B) to AIG off onto the American taxpayer in the form of government assest purchases owned by AIG. By law this money does not need to be paid back to the US Treasury (it can be, but it doesn’t need to be.) Last monday the FED retired another $25 billion of the debt which AIG owed by receiving, in preferred stock, the American International Assurance Co worth $16 billion and the American Life Insurance Co worth $9 billion. AIG now owes the FED about $17 billion dollars. AIG still owes the US Treasury $140 billion dollars. It owes $43 billion in asset purchases (foisted off on it by the FED) it need not pay back, $45 billion in TARP money it doesn’t intend to pay back and $52 billion that it intends to pay back by selling off its assets. All in all it looks like Bernanke got a sweet deal for the private bankers that he represents as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. While the idiot who runs our Treasury Department is shoving a hot poker up our a**es and telling us to quit whining because the pain will soon stop. The republic is dead! Long live its corpse. Peace
This from the Times if true, is pretty selfish if you ask me. Why stand in the way of badly needed financial reforms over radio stations?
http://bit.ly/8koRYz
The problem is that sooooo many did not recognize the old okie doke during the campaign. The Obama campaign was trying to bamboozle you. It was the same old okie-doke. Y’all know about okie doke, right? … They bamboozled you. Hoodwinked ya. Hoodwink ya. Alright….. and they did.
Iceblinkjm…I think that this is the way the game is played. To this I say go maxine Waters,even though I think it may be a thankless task. The CBC is not going to let the first AA president fail if they can help it and that fact will forever make them a stepchild of this administration. Obama is not going to be caught showing favortism to AA concerns,it goes against everything we know about him.
What does everyone think about the WH citing “executive priviledge” for their social secretary concerning Partycrashergate? It does not fill me with confidence. In fact I think it is so stupid I can’t believe it.
Hey djjl
No joke djjl…the American people sure got bamboozled!
Hi Lake Lady,
I think they are trying to keep cover for their friend, Desiree Rogers who eliminated the WH position:
http://blogs.bet.com/news/pamela/
“Today’s questions started pointing fingers at Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, for not having a staff member posted at the gate alongside the Secret Service. It has been customary for a member of the social office to do so, and one former member of the staff who filled that post could be fueling the fire.
Cathy Hargraves, a former member of the social office (a holdover from the Bush administration) resigned in June after she was told she wouldn’t be needed in her current role. Hargraves said she was personally responsible for overseeing the invitations of state dinner guests and keeping track of their RSVPs and physically stood at the gate to double check which guest showed up.
All of this is coming to light since Michele and Tareq Salahi managed to fast talk their way past the Secret Service and into the administration’s first state dinner. So far the Secret Service is taking full responsibility for lapse in security – but the tenor of today’s questioning was all focused on the role of the White House social office.
One former White House official told ABC news, “I knew she [Hargraves] left but did not know they did not replace the job in the same way. That’s really too bad – it really helps them to have this person because it is such a bear of a job but so important.”
The “bear of job” Hargraves filled was to input all the guest names, take all the responses, give them to the calligraphers who would address the invites, do the place cards, the former official told ABC. “On game day she was a key link to Secret Service because she was posted at the East Portico with them because she was the most intimately knowledgeable of the list.”
Now there are talks of congressional hearings and extensive reviews of current procedures. It’s unfortunate this is taking place on the eve of such an important policy address to the nation; but the security of the president is of paramount importance and measures must be taken to assure this doesn’t happen again.”
BTW, He’s not just failing AA’s – he’s failing all Main Street Americans.
In a big way djjl….As an original doubter who like you and Taylor and others PAID ATTENTION to what he said and didn’t say during the campaign…I have to say that I am surprised at what a terrible job he is doing.He has made a series of bad choices in staff and policy or should I say no policy on important things.
The thing that kills me is right now he is on television articulating things very smartly( re: unemployment) but will he actually DO anything?
HMMMMM I wonder if the “Super delegates” are paying attention….
Was anybody paying attention when the freshman Senator from Illinois was passing around money in the Congress? The freshman had more “walking around money” than Hillary Clinton of New York.
“Because superdelegates will make up around 20 percent of 4,000 delegates to the Democratic convention in August–Republicans don’t have superdelegates—Clinton and Obama are aggressively wooing the more than 400 superdelegates who haven’t yet made up their minds. Since 2005 Obama has given 52 of the undecided superdelegates a total of at least $363,900, while Clinton has given a total of $88,000 to 15 of them. Anticipating that their intense competition for votes in state primaries and caucuses will result in a near-tie going into the nominating convention, the two candidates are making personal calls to superdelegates now, or are recruiting other big names to do so on their behalf. With no specific rules about what can and can’t be done to court these delegates, just about anything goes.”
http://www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/inside.php?ID=336
Lake Lady says:
03 December 2009 at 1:57 pm
The thing that kills me is right now he is on television articulating things very smartly( re: unemployment) but will he actually DO anything?
This is what the Clinton campaign meant about “just words.” Unless one has the interest and courage to act on what is “said” – then they’re just words. Empty rhetoric.
djjl…What a great historian you are for all of us…thanks so much!
historian??????
BBL
Taylor was fun on MSNBC, I think her humor unnerved her earstwhile opponant!
Digby is streaming some of the jobs summit live.
Lake Lady says:
03 December 2009 at 4:19 pm
Hey LL, thanks! If you can’t have fun doing these gigs why do them?
“The republic is dead! Long live its corpse. Peace”
WOW! ALmost made it through an inteligent comment that just about everybody here would be in complete agreement with but then had to go all trolly at the last second, jest cain’t hep hissef cain he?
Ms. Marsh, I think you should do your next TV spot wearing that SuperWOman outfit from the past! I know, I know, it was just a graffic…but a feller cain hope cain’t he?
When Bill Clinton threw the welfare recipients under the bus in 1996, I lost some of my respect for him. I did not want Hillary in office for that reason. Now with the Democrats doing very little to fix the Medicare Prescription drug benefit since 2003 and caving into their conservative caucus to pass a weak public option, Senator Harkin looks more attractive for 2016.
No more charismatic centrist Democrats for President.
Join the Liberal Democratic Party of the United States.
http://www.democratz.org
http://www.democratz.org says:
04 December 2009 at 12:41 pm
I didn’t like what Clinton did, either. You know, I read somewhere that nobody ever bothered to study what happenned to all those people who were literally knocked off the welfare rolls. I think in NY state alone, there were something like 600,000 just gone off the rolls and there was no study, follow-up – zip. I agree with you. I am so disillusioned now with both parties, but in particular my own. They are really selling Main Street out, IMO. I didn’t expect that of them and I certainly won’t contribute anymore like I have in the past.