Obama embracing lame-duck status, preparing for post-Presidential career helping young black men

[Teddy B 17,252]

Hey Teddy, find a link saying Obama is going for a third term. I want to see a meltdown here on VJ.

No kiddin.

He's got my vote.

[GandD 5,966]

I vote Obama dictator for life.

[deleted-05292014 331]

This is the Obama that the "Head Racist" sees.

It's good to be the King

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If I posted a quote from Clarence You would call him an uncle tom. The kenyan has been fundamentally useless as a president: when you look at the black folks ....on ...main street. Travis is correct and you are p**** that you cannot call him an uncle tom also. Fundamentally change America.....He left the black folk out .. I guess he did let a few out of jail. Everyone s anti-poverty maybe a few less vacations or rounds of golf and your main man in Washington could attend to this problem. At least he could take a few kids from the inner city and let them caddy for him.

Still with 'The Kenyan' eh?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I find it so ironic that you quote a Socialist sympathizer as in Tavis Smiley. His best friend and colleague is Dr. Cornel West who is a socialist. They both are huge advocates of big government and anti poverty.

I only say that bc it's you posting it. I like Dr. West and have read several of his books, saw him speak at my college. I don't agree with him on every issue and he has completely pissed me off with his criticisms of Obama but I respect his opinion - how can I not, he is one of the leading intellects of our time.

Smiley and West main agenda is the poor. A constituency that has no allies with either party and no voice in DC. Just find it funny you use his quote, why not Allen West or Clarence Thomas?

I like Tavis Smiley as well as Dr. West. Both of them are committed to changing the dynamics of poverty in America, however, I think they're going about it the wrong way. Sometimes you have to choose your battles and they could be helping right now with raising the minimum wage. They could form alliances with politicians like Elizabeth Warren, who is committed to protecting consumers, especially those most affected by predatory lending.

Edited February 27, 2014 by Porterhouse

[Merrytooth 5,748]

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

“Amid continued pessimism about the economy and direction of the country, 59 percent of Americans say they are disappointed in Mr. Obama’s presidency (including 37 percent who are very disappointed),” CBS News reported on Wednesday. The latest CBS News/New York Times poll found that only 41 percent of American adults approve of the job the president is doing in office, down from the 46 percent approval CBS registered in mid-January.

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The Republicans are set to maintain control the House and make big gains in the Senate in November. How big? While the Senate is in play in the coming election cycle, some analysts are beginning to entertain the prospect that Republicans may make gains large enough to allow them to keep control through the 2016 cycle.

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RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende took a less conventional approach to estimating potential GOP Senate gains. Last Thursday, Trende published a post in which he said that Republican gains in the Senate will track closely with President Obama’s job disapproval rating. He wrote that, at Obama’s present 41 percent rating, gains of between 10 and 11 seats in the upper chamber of Congress are not out of the question.

An 11 seat gain would mean the GOP would hold 56 seats in that chamber of Congress – a feat the party has not duplicated since the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928.

It’s that bad, and Obama apparently knows it. This week, the President of the United States began to tout his plans for the post-presidency. Amid a contentious election year in which the fate of his signature policy achievement, the Affordable Care Act, hangs in the balance, Obama has set his sights on the impact he can make once he vacates the Oval Office.

On Thursday, White House advisors mounted a press blitz in which they said that Obama will expand his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, a program which will bring together non-profit foundations and private enterprises to test programs designed to help young minority men to graduate from high school, train for a good job, and avoid juvenile detention centers or prison.

“Senior White House aides confirm to Yahoo News that a major focus of Obama’s post-presidency will be a broad-based, lifelong effort to lift up a demographic that feels perennially written off and left behind,” Yahoo! News’ Liz Goodwin and Garance Franke-Ruta reported on Wednesday. “Obama, who wrote a best-selling memoir probing questions of race, identity and his own fatherlessness, is plotting a return to the issues that have been central to his own life and will continue to shape generations of young black men after he leaves the White House.”

This is a critical cause, and the president’s influence will be valuable to helping minority youth to navigate the challenges posed by growing up in troubled neighborhoods. Obama’s post-presidency already seems bright. So bright, in fact, that the president apparently cannot wait to get started.

Given the dip in his approval rating and the increasing likelihood that the final two years of the Obama administration will be unproductive due to the potential for a Republican dominated Congress, Obama is already embracing his lame duck status.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lame-duck-obama-already-planning-for-post-presidency/

Black have not fared so well under Obama. Why is he singling out young Black men? everyone keeps telling me they are not any worse off than anyone else. .

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I like Tavis Smiley as well as Dr. West. Both of them are committed to changing the dynamics of poverty in America, however, I think they're going about it the wrong way. Sometimes you have to choose your battles and they could be helping right now with raising the minimum wage. They could form alliances with politicians like Elizabeth Warren, who is committed to protecting consumers, especially those most affected by predatory lending.

Yeah I couldn't agree more. I think Dr. West is still bitter about getting snubbed for tickets to the inauguration.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Head racist here

You talk about raising the wage rate, What needs to be done is send the illegal's home. Nothing worse than having 10+ million undocumented democrats taking away jobs from the black folk. He will sacrifice future generations of black children to try and maintain the status of the liberals. Just so many jobs to go around.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Head racist here

You talk about raising the wage rate, What needs to be done is send the illegal's home. Nothing worse than having 10+ million undocumented democrats taking away jobs from the black folk. He will sacrifice future generations of black children to try and maintain the status of the liberals. Just so many jobs to go around.

Great point. He knows they have to have that vote to stay in power. So what they hay right

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yet the conservative mindset is to not help anyone so they'll learn to help themselves. Obama is the conservative role model of our time when it comes to inner city blacks.

And yet, conservatives hate him for not helping the poor. Laughable.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Nominated for stupidest, most brain dead post of this thread.

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Head racist here

You talk about raising the wage rate, What needs to be done is send the illegal's home. Nothing worse than having 10+ million undocumented democrats taking away jobs from the black folk. He will sacrifice future generations of black children to try and maintain the status of the liberals. Just so many jobs to go around.

Great point. He knows they have to have that vote to stay in power. So what they hay right

race has nothing to do with it. No American is picking strawberries or doing agriculture work for what undocumented workers are getting paid at. Americans do not want to pay fair wages to Americans - period. If Americans were willing to pay lets say $20 for a carton of strawberries then yes, you would see less people coming across the border. This economy benefits from cheap labor, it always has and it always will. That's why no one wants to tackle the immigration issue on either side of the political fence IMO.

undocumented democrats, man you crack me up. You should sign up and be a writer for Dennis Miller b/c he hasn't been funny since he flipped flopped his political alignments.

[Boiler 45,486]

I know many people who work in Agriculture and other sectors who make minimum of there about's.

For whatever reason most Western Countries have set up a dependent non working lower class, obviously illegals are not that keen to pick Strawberries either and very few work in Agriculture.

There are historical precedents, they did not end well.

[lostinblue 1,989]

race has nothing to do with it. No American is picking strawberries or doing agriculture work for what undocumented workers are getting paid at. Americans do not want to pay fair wages to Americans - period. If Americans were willing to pay lets say $20 for a carton of strawberries then yes, you would see less people coming across the border. This economy benefits from cheap labor, it always has and it always will. That's why no one wants to tackle the immigration issue on either side of the political fence IMO.

undocumented democrats, man you crack me up. You should sign up and be a writer for Dennis Miller b/c he hasn't been funny since he flipped flopped his political alignments.

It's easier to get welfare or unemployment than work the fields. ... I have picked strawberries before...What is your Idea of a carton?