Maureen Dowd: ‘Obama Needs Some Black People Around Him’
Famed NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd tackles last week’s biggest story, the one that Hot Air refers to as the l’affair Sherrod.
The West Wing white guys who pushed to ditch Shirley Sherrod before Glenn Beck could pounce not only didn’t bother to Google, they weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod. And they didn’t return the calls and e-mail of prominent blacks who tried to alert them that something was wrong…
“I’ve known these two individuals — the husband for more than 50 years and the wife for at least 35, 40 — and there’s not a racist hair on their heads or anyplace else on their bodies,” [Rep. John] Lewis said…
“The president’s getting hurt real bad,” Clyburn told me. “He needs some black people around him.” He said Obama’s inner circle keeps “screwing up” on race: “Some people over there are not sensitive at all about race. They really feel that the extent to which he allows himself to talk about race would tend to pigeonhole him or cost him support, when a lot of people saw his election as a way to get the issue behind us. I don’t think people elected him to disengage on race. Just the opposite.” Read More…
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Shouldn’t that be “Tom Vilsack needs black people around him,” since he’s the one who jumped the gun on firing Ms. Sherrod, not the president.
He has plenty of black folks around on a daily. Their names are:
Sasha
Malia
Michelle
Marion (his mother in law)
#theend
And when the list is spelled out like that…he has more black folks around him than I do daily. Bye.
Maureen Dowd needs to be quite with all that noise.
Obama aint running ****, that’s why the priorities for this country and the world are messed up.
We keep telling yall….the evil elites run the world. That is till Jesus Christ comes back.
@ kwall….dont forget BO (the dog) his azz black too
** Obama aint running nothing **
President Obama is going to be on The View Thursday. He needs more people
kwall….dont forget BO (the dog) his azz black too
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You know what…I BET 5 that Bo (the first dog) is a nukka dog for real. Y’all know the kind…Don’t come when you call his azz…prolly be jumping on company and stuff…I can see mama Michelle taking a house shoe to his lil doggy butt for being bad…I can totally see Bo being a black folks dog! So add the dog to the list too…
Bo all fluffy and shyt but I bet your right. I bet he got Pitbull tendecies..let a negga get out of line and see what happen
I could see Obama on the Supreme Court. And, I have to agree that he’d probably be happier there…logically debating fundamental issues.
I think he would have been an amazing Supreme Court judge.
Folks don’t realize….for every bad comment or stab at the President…God is blessing him more! Keep on talking bad about the man and wishing bad on him! God is just really gonna show up and show out for this man!
Obama was elected the President of America, not President of black America.
Say It Aint So Joe says:
Obama was elected the President of America, not President of black America.
Say It Aint So Joe says:
Obama was elected the President of America, not President of black America.
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Hello All. What President Obama needs is for folks to get off his back and stop blaming him for er thang under the sun. Who is perfect but Jesus? Peace.
Say It Aint So Joe says: Obama was elected the President of America, not President of black America.
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Who said he was the president of black America? I’ve never heard anyone say that.