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Cash_thatswhatiwant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:23 AM Original message |
Blacks at Odds Over Scrutiny of President |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Stills' quote is pretty much spot on. |
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terisan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. Every president must be held accountable, else we have dictatorship not democracy, nt |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Funny how the last one escaped accountability. |
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terisan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. We Democrats had 2 full years to hold Bush accountable. Our representatives chose not to. |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. That is correct. |
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Connie_Corleone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
4. Why didn't someone tell me about this divide among us? |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I know, I havent seen any deep division either |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Well - if Jeff Johnson and Marc Morial and E. Faye Anderson and Tavis Smiley aren't in complete |
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AyanEva (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
39. LOL I haven't seen it either |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. Like night and day |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
6. I don't think this is a phenom only with black Dems and progressives.. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
7. ZOMG!!!!!! You mean black folks don't all agree with each other???? |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
30. On the upside, the writer is to be commended for never using the word "Negro" |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Indeed - I really need to appreciate the upside a bit more. |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. Nothing wrong with Black people,Hispanics, liberals, etc...to push Obama on certain things |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
12. I'm looking forward to the second in the series: "Whites at Odds Over Scrutiny of the President" |
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Kaylee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. I hate when the Wash Post does articles like this.... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
33. I see we're on the |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
14. Had Hillary been elected, the title would have been: Women at Odds Over Scrutiny of President |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Because black people are "the blacks" but white people are "the people" |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Sad, but true |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. No, because blacks vote in a bloc far more frequently. No woman has had 91% approval of women. nt |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 03:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. You need to check your facts. You're dead wrong . . . |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. We don't know that. Let's wait till we have a woman president who totally kicks ass. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. No, because women do not vote as a bloc. Nearly half voted for Bush in '04. nt |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Black voters don't vote in racial blocs - white voters, however, do |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:33 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. They don't vote according to race |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
20. As a black woman, I struggle with this, too. I have been very disappointed in many of Obama's |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. This is exactly how I feel, though I am not as dissapointed in Obama as you are. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:47 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Job ONE for the M$M and their handlers |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. This is exactly how I feel, though I am not as dissapointed in Obama as you are. |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
21. I don't particularly like the Stills commentary. Jack and Jill blogger? |
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marimour (696 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. No, not like Jack and Jill the organization. |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. People forget that the "attacks" on Smiley weren't because he criticized or failed to support Obama, |
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Cash_thatswhatiwant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. What did he say? |
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marimour (696 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. exactly. Tavis' whinefest had nothing to do with the issues |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
22. Like with every other group of people, you have your realists |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. The headline seems to suggest it's amazing that 30 million blacks disagree about something |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
32. Don't be worrying about my Prez' soul, |
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