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Melissa Harris-Perry
by Maria Lloyd
In a posting on TheNation.com, Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to motivate President Obama’s reluctant African American supporters by telling them an Obama re-election is beyond what policies he does or does not pass for African Americans, his re-election embodies “…a symbol of triumphant black achievement.”
She also wrote that the mainstream media has reported ‘faulty’ polls showing that African Americans’ support of President Obama has waved. She referenced the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, stating that Mitt Romney had zero percent support from the black community and that lack of support indicates that Obama’s African American supporters are still supporting him. “But a sober assessment shows that Obama has enjoyed robust, unwavering and unprecedented approval ratings among African-Americans,” she wrote. “This was evidenced most starkly by the recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that measured black support for Mitt Romney at zero percent.”
What Harris-Perry fails to illustrate is that a zero percent interest in Mitt Romney in the black community does not equate to a 100% support of President Obama. A number of African American voters have decided not vote or to vote for a third party candidate. She went on to explain what an Obama re-election would mean to the black community and how the Democratic party has supported the black community since the 1960′s.
The question is not whether the president enjoys the backing of black voters—he does. The question is not whether this support matters—it does. Black voters in states like Ohio, Virginia and Florida are crucial to his re-election. The question is: What difference does it make to black voters if Obama is re-elected?
The impact of an Obama presidency on black Americans is better answered by partisanship than race. Since the 1960s, African-Americans have fared better under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones. Most of the value of an Obama second term over a Romney presidency is captured by this partisan difference. But race is not inconsequential. For African-Americans, having a black president matters in terms not fully captured by policy outcomes.
When Obama became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, he was asked about the historic nature of his election. A young Obama replied, “Although…I think people can say my election symbolizes some progress…I think it’s real important to keep the focus on the broader world out there…. For a lot of kids, the doors that have been opened to me aren’t open to them.” The quote is more than twenty years old, but the sentiment is still relevant to his presidency today.
My question to Harris-Perry is: We understand why the President ‘enjoys’ the backing of black voters, but why should black voters enjoy backing him? Given the state of black America today with an unemployment rate that has consistently been twice that of the nation’s rate, why should black voters give unwavering support to the Obama Administration and the Democratic party? If African Americans have ‘fared better’ under Democratic candidates, why aren’t we seeing these results?
She continued to write about her own conversation with the President regarding the black community. His response offered little-to-no assurance that he’d be rallying to support issues specifically targeting the black community.
It was with full awareness of this complicated relationship that I sat down with President Obama in the Oval Office. I had been asked by Ebony magazine to conduct an interview with the president on the issues facing black communities and what he planned to do for those communities if re-elected.
Some aspects of the conversation were unsurprising. The president argued that race-neutral policies that help all Americans have a specific impact on black people. He discussed, for example, how the Affordable Care Act will particularly benefit African-Americans, who are the least likely to be insured. He emphasized education as the key to long-term racial and economic equality. When pushed, the president was willing to engage on more racially specific concerns, like the scourge of urban gun violence. But his preference was to think about the racially positive effects of race-neutral policies.
At one point Obama wistfully reflected on the age of President Lincoln, saying, “In some ways, I think it used to be easier. Abraham Lincoln used to have just an open office…folks would just line up outside—they’d walk in, they’d petition him for something.”
I reminded him that Lincoln did have to deal with a civil war. “Yes,” President Obama laughed, “that’s a good trade-off.”
It was a light moment, and I was pleased that I got the president to laugh. But it was also a moment of insight for me. In his romantic vision of Lincoln’s open-door White House, it seemed the president had forgotten the raging battle that divided the nation. It made me wonder if he could still see the brutal structural circumstances most black citizens face. Only a second term can answer this question.
One thing is clear: black voters will determine how much race, policy and history weigh in their calculation to turn out for President Obama. Only they—not the campaign, not the media—will dictate their interests in this moment. It is the irony of democracy that they have greater power to hold the door open for President Obama than he has to hold the door open for them.
Harris-Perry even highlighted the socio-economic factors that specifically plague the black community: “Black children suffer the highest rates of poverty and food insecurity. African-Americans continue to have strikingly lower literacy, high school graduation and college completion rates. African-American unemployment remains nearly twice that of whites, while black incarceration tracks at six times that of whites.” Yet, she fails to successfully convey why black voters should continue to support President Obama and the Democratic party. We embodied the triumphant achievement of a bi-racial American in President Obama’s first election. What’s the benefit of revisiting that triumph?
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Otis L Griffin
December 5, 2012 at 10:42 am
Scotty Reid ,,, expound please ! Did the face of this POTUS lead you to believe or expect this nation to do an ‘ about-face’ ? to suddenly dismantle a ‘Military -industrial complex ‘ tied to ‘Energy Sector-OIL’ that has dominated so much of the Nations action . in MODERN TIMES ???
mslee
November 1, 2012 at 12:46 pm
We as black people need to understand that it is up to us to determine our individual futures not the President, the democratic party or any other government entity. We as black people have faired better under democratic presidents than republicans because democrats tend to fight for middle class and thats where most if us are. On the flip side of the coin there are some blacks who were able to come up in any situation even under republican leadership. Sadly some of them forget to lift as they climb so they turn into people like Herman Cain & they join the republican voters. Cain had to endure the same struggles because of his skin bur he made it in spite of his skin. Sure the republicans can target the mass but there are always some individuals who will slip through the cracks. As individuals we need to strive to be the ones who slip through the cracks & to bring others with us.We need to make up our own minds that we wont committ crimes, that we will graduate high school & go to college, we will work. I am a RN but was willing to work as a LPN & CNA in order to put food on the table. Sure I have a degree but there were freezes on RN jobs in my area & my kids needed to eat & bills needed to be paid.Working in those positions didnt make me less of a RN but it gave me the opportunity to work & make connections in order to move up. No its not ideal but survival. I didnt care about race…whether or not a white woman would have had to do it….I cared about food & shelter. Im a black woman & we survive!!! The unemployment rate is high becauae people dont want to work the jobs available because of certain standards. Whats real is that we are starving but no adjustments are being made. Its not the President’s fault….not all of it. He has to face racism just like we do. His policies are designed to help black people if we identify ourselves by anything other than our race. If he helps gay people then he helps black gay people…if he helps women then he helps black women….if he helps middle & poor people then he helps most black people. We have to stop cursing him out because his policies are not publicly addressed to the black community. We are all familiar with the “hook up”. When you gon hook folks up you dont broadcast it because it will alert folks ti what you doing. We as black folks are complaining about his job when we should be getting ready for the hook up thats on the way. It doesnt matter about college if you dont go to high school. It doesnt matter about tax breaks if you dont work. We are no strangers to surviving. In order to live after the storm you must survive the storm.To me thats a personal choice.
Asar
October 24, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Don’t vote, it is a waste of time.
The government is run by white corporations and private white capital. Its chief instrument of power is a private corporation, the so called Federal Reserve.
Many people think it’s a government agency because it’s called federal. Yet, this is a system controlled by private WHITE finance and private WHITE bankers, to whom the congress has ceded control of the environment; over the economy. They determine the nature of the economic system of America; these private people not the people you elect.
Power is not in elected politics, you can vote all you want to, and you will not have real power in the U.S.A. because the power is in the hands of WHITE people who are never elected. The WHITE owners of property, the WHITE owners of wealth, the controllers of corporations and the controllers of major WHITE institutions who survive and continue to exist as presidents move in out of office and as governments change. They are the permanent government. – Dr. Amos Wilson
You gain power by gaining control and owning resources. – Dr. Amos Wilson
Asking for jobs is foolish, if anything African Americans need to change their mind set; support and encourage Black businesses. They are many immigrants with next to no politicians representing them, for example Asians who collectively are doing better than Africans in America.
Many of you should have noticed that assimilation is not working out for Africans in America. For this mulatto to continue to make excuses as to why he can not have a Black agenda is not a surprise, he was not vetted by African people.
Read Dr. Amos Wilson “Blue Print to Black Power”
moonhead
October 22, 2012 at 5:06 pm
You won’t publish what I say, because it’s the truth. f**k you Black World.
moonhead
October 22, 2012 at 4:59 pm
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DollarsDoug
October 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm
We’re faced with this question: are we better off now than we were 4 years ago?
People vote their wallets. If there’s nothing in it, then the incumbent’s going to have a hard time getting reelected. If it’s full, he’ll be a shoo-in.
We’be got to realize that if Obama gets a 2nd term-which I believe he will, he needs to show us that he’s going to respond better to us and our needs than in the past.
Sure, he’s the President of all people, but when are we going to get another black person in the White House again after him?
I don’t want Romney, buy I’m being honest when I say that I’m a bit disappointed by what has happened the last 4 years.
However, our problems as a people CANNOT be solved by a politician, anyway!
Saadiq
October 22, 2012 at 5:41 am
The 47% that “Block of Wood” doesn’t care about are the poor and minorities. A. A. fair better under Dems. You answered your own question. No one should waste their vote on a 3rd party at this point of the of the election.
DR.FLOYD DARDEN
October 22, 2012 at 5:38 am
Wow!! it is great to see, read and participate in this debate about why a man of color will or will not be voted for as President to continue to be a boarder at the White owned White House in America. So many of already said it well, so I’m just going to give a short comment. How could any [not rich] black anyone vote for Romney a white man [over a black man] after he has put his foot in his mouth many times already, about his commitment to the black community; on what he will, or will-not do-if elected [is clear] and has been in the news & on line not just a few times? What is wrong with this picture? Did you know that, many of the performing Artist in the USA are backing Obama….Why is that sooo True? Well, because “Artist” are known to be very Rich, but they are also,deeply Service Oriented people, Lovers & givers of growth & happiness for thousands, that the average person never reads about…..Why are many of these Artist not voting to keep all that extra cash as for themselves? Usually the Rich stay rich by voting republican…investments etc…stocks, etc…buy, trade, sell and control job growth and wages of the work force. Now, Dr. King, Paul Robeson, and many others spoke out, stood up and made the government [America] take notice of her suffering darker brothers & sisters; that is how we get growth and change with any government…it is not the man totally , but the Machine that must be made to feel the pain of social injustice. Even in American recent history, The Hero must be prepared to give his life for truth, justice, honor, and growth of the human spirit. To get what we think we need and is reasonable, Black national groups should come together, form committees for effect growth, listing what is needed, take it to the White, sit down and talk about a plan to get something done; one step at a time. Rather than vote for any non-black person, that will not be concern about you once in the white. Who knows of any rich person that can relate to the common worker?
ripuree11
October 22, 2012 at 12:58 am
Great food for thought.
Jessie
October 22, 2012 at 12:09 am
Maria Weezy Lloyd did Bush #1, Bush#2, Reagan or any of the other Republican presidents or other presidents in history do that? NO! Obama is the first black president in history of the USA. All the cards were stacked against him from day one. His hands have been tied from the beginning by all the republicans and some democrats to make sure that the person representing the 47% only serve one term. Yes we really need a president in the white house that is worth more than $250 million dollars and understands the plight of the middle and lower class especially the African American people “because my family once owned slaves”. Maria and the rest that think the way you do should vote for Romney because it’ll probably be the last time in our lifetime that you will get a chance to vote against a black president.
Jessie
October 22, 2012 at 12:09 am
Maria Weezy Lloyd did Bush #1, Bush#2, Reagan or any of the other Republican presidents or other presidents in history do that? NO! Obama is the first black president in history of the USA. All the cards were stacked against him from day one. His hands have been tied from the beginning by all the republicans and some democrats to make sure that the person representing the 47% only serve one term. Yes we really need a president in the white house that is worth more than $250 million dollars and understands the plight of the middle and lower class especially the African American people “because my family once owned slaves”. Maria and the rest that think the way you do should vote for Romney because it’ll probably be the last time in our lifetime that you will get a chance to vote against a black president.
jojo
October 21, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Vote the one who will ctrate jobs for you.
http://youtu.be/eAaQNACwaLw
jojo
October 21, 2012 at 11:26 pm
The Obama Deception HQ Full length version . Obama works and receives money from WallStreet. Obama doesn’t work for Black people!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eAaQNACwaLw
Belenda
October 21, 2012 at 11:10 pm
My brothers and sisters….PLEASE LET US NOT LOOSE SIGHT OF THE PRIZE FOR THIS ELECTION!!!!!! It is not simply democratic or republican….those are the processes…THE POINT HERE IS THAT THE REPUBLICTHUGS DETERMINED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA…YES the African-American man that they should be calling ‘PRESIDENT OBAMA” and they don’t…determined that he would be a “one-term” president and they called on all of their thugs….including Black republicthugs TO DO ALL THEY COULD TO ENSURE THAT HE WOULD BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT….yeah the same PRESIDENT that Mitt Romney’s son “wants to take a swing (punch) at”…ARE YOU FORGETTING THIS? THERE IS NO CONTEST HERE…PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS THE BEST IDEAS AND HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB without ANY republican(THUG) assistance in the congress…HE IS PASSING MAJOR BILLS TO BENEFIT AMERICA AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT!!!!!!COME ON, GET REAL..WE KNOW THIS DEAL AND WE HAVE SEEN THIS LEVEL OF INTIMIDATION BEFORE….and if you are forgetting, Romeny threw you under the bus it because you represent the 47% of Americans whom he doesn’t care about….AND PLEASE….NOT VOTE????? AFTER ALL OF THE SACRIFICE AND THE DYING AND THE CRYING….ARE WE THAT WEAK THAT WE HAVE SOME CRAZY SELF-HATING OREO BLACK PEOPLE THROWING THE CHALLANGE AND BETTING THAT BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE ‘CAUSE WE MAD????? WHAT REVERSE SELF-HATING PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTONS ARE WE UNDER? The problem is not Melissa Harris Perry…she is on target…the problem is black people who don’t vote, who are encouraging you not to vote and who are working with white and others to suppress the vote for Obama. This is a dangerous game and it NEVER ceases to amaze me why on this website and the so called “black intellectualism” they purport, it is obvious these black oreo people are employed by the republithugs who happen to be white and working for the republicthug party as the oreos always want to throw their so-called “intellectual house slave ni***gaatude” attitude and point of view” to let all the republicthug racists KNOW “HEY BOSS…I’SE ON DE JOB YOU GAVE ME….BOSS, I GOT DOSE DEMOCRATIC BLACKS ON DE ROPES ABOUT WHY DEY SHOULD VOTE….BOSS YOU DONE A GOOD JOB MAKING DE CASE FO’ OBAMA TO BE A ONE-TERM BLACK PRESIDENT….Congrats Boss…we’se got dem now!!This is the conversation they are having and cheering over….and we are helping them!!!! Yes we need to question and hold everyone accountable BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE AND WE HAVE TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC AND FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA. SO WHAT IF YOU WANT TO VOTE BECAUSE HE IS BLACK? WHITE PEOPLE ARE VOTING AGAINST HIM ‘BECAUSE’ HE IS BLACK AND VOTING FOR ROMENY BECAUSE HE IS WHITE!!!!! THEY DON’T LIKE ROMENY BUT THEY HATE OBAMA. Please, let us ignore this website and the self-hating blacks who think they are winning this game for the republicthugs….VOTE, VOTE, VOTE. And don’t listen to self-hating and self-interest serving ‘in the employ’ of white people to side-track and hoodwink us. Don’t think they want us to vote en masse forObama while they are dong their best to keep him under wraps….what about the tee-shirt wearing racist as a recent Romney rally….the tee shirt said “let’s put the ‘white’ back in the White House….vote Romney/Ryan”. Is this what you are going to let them do? You going to give in to the hype and let them play us for suckers and get us angry at the President instead of the a-holes who are doing all they can to “tame” your vote and turn you around and turn you out to not vote but keep your Black self home on Election Day. Last point….they paid…and didn’t have to pay much…to “turn” Artur Davis republicthug to denounce Obama ….and this turkey STILL HAS NOT EXPLAINED WHY???!!!!! I thank all who have gone before me and given me the right to voice and vote and for the good common sense to not be played like a guitar on this no-brainer issue…and can see the big picture….Vote Obama…Vote Democratic….Vote for an African-America way of life that can only be achieved under an African-American invludend democratic party. BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT DO IT NOR GAIN IT UNDER THE REPUBLICTHUGS AND MITT THE TWIT ROMNEY. Just like President Obama told him in the last debate eye to eye….”PROCEED MR. ROMENY” AND HE, ROMENY DID PROCEED…..AND ROPED HIMSELF IN A SITUATION HE COULDN’T EXTRACT HIMSELF FROM…LET US AS AFRICAN-AMERICANS “PROCEED” UNITED TOEGETHER….and make this Presidential election A SECOND TERM FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MAKE IT About us….don’t forget….YES WE CAN!!!!!
Rod S.
October 22, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Well said, Belenda!
nellis
October 21, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Who is Maria Lloyd?
Imhotep
October 21, 2012 at 10:28 pm
I went to a seminar hosted by a Vermont u. Law Prof named Gus Smith and he had an interesting view of the bigger problems politically in this country. His book ” America the Possible-Manifesto for a New Economy” is a must read for anyone-Democrat or Republican if they truly want to understand why we are at juncture, and what the shape of this country will be unless in his words ” drastic almost revolutionary steps are taken to ward off this country becoming a complete “corpratocracy or a plutocracy.”
1. Automatically register people to vote at age 18 like most modern countries do.
2. Get the Corporations’ money out of our government-from lobbying and also the massive donations given to our candidates.
3. The development of more political parties. This two-party rule has done nothing but put the American people in a quagmire of ” zigzagness” every election cycle with less real choices each time.
4. More marches and boycotts. That is what worked during the3 Civil Rights movement and for the most part any movement that has sustained real change.
5. Achieve a 80% plus percentile of the eligible electorate to vote. Most of the other modern countries have close to that percent and some even more.
6. Give donations from a election fund to each candidate as to eliminate the outside(Corporate) influence that has change our democracy for the worst.
If we want to see real change my people, we have to realize who is jerking the chain( he states in the mid 70′s the top 1% owned about 8% of all the country’s money, now its at about 26%). We need income distribution like we saw in the 70′s or no one who is not in the 1% will be able to grow to the point where they can create wealth that passes on from generation to generation. Now is not our problems a result of the malfeasance of both of these parties? Real Talk!! Maat..
jackie
October 21, 2012 at 8:10 pm
IS A WHITE PERSON BRAINWASHED IF THEY’RE DEMOCRATIC?
Bonnie Oliver
October 21, 2012 at 7:13 pm
All of these conversations about whether or not we should support Obama because he is black is not relevant. The point will we be offer under Obama or under Romney. It should be clear to anyone with half a brain that unless we are rich, and I mean company owning rich, we are much better off under Obama. Black people wake up, he was elected President of the United States, not President of the Black United States. However his policies have positive impact on all Americans not just a segment of the populations. So lighten up haters and give the man his due. He has been and will continue to be, a great President for this country
Rod S
October 21, 2012 at 7:04 pm
People should stop expecting Obama to be the savior of the world. You didn’t expect it of white presidents, then why do you expect it of Obama? He isJust one man-he has to have the support of congress to get things through, which he hasn’t had from the Republikkkans…if you’re that indecisive about Obama, then vote for Romney, d**n…
Rod S
October 21, 2012 at 7:04 pm
People should stop expecting Obama to be the savior of the world. You didn’t expect it of white presidents, then why do you expect it of Obama? He isJust one man-he has to have the support of congress to get things through, which he hasn’t had from the Republikkkans…if you’re that indecisive about Obama, then vote for Romney, d**n…
Leslie
October 21, 2012 at 7:00 pm
This is the second time in history that black voters even have an option. I’m so disturbed when blacks question Obama-just because he’s blackish. I don’t remember all this dialogue between candidates between Bush & Gore or the elder Bush. We voted with limitations, and we didn’t divide our votes along racial lines.
Take an aerial view to see if you are sizing this campaign fairly. Vote for whomever, it’s an American right. But must we demolish the character of Obama because you know want to press the issues of what will the next president will do for the black community. Did you hold the Bush dynasty to producing for the black community. No, you didn’t because they were thinking very little about the black community or the latino community.
So, you cannot tell me we will do worse under a second term of Obama. This darn unemployment is the fruit from the other administration. My goodness people, read up on stuff, I promise the information is right there in history.
Thomas D. Broadwater, Sr.
October 21, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Some how we need to understand, that thousands of laws were written and put on the statute books in towns, cities, school boards, counties, states and congress, to say how you define an African American, and how to keep us uneducated, for more than tree hundred years. Sadly for some of us, we do not realize that what it took more than three hundred years to do. There is not one human on the face of the earth that can undo it in four (4) years. tom
Mellissa
October 21, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Interesting article, it is what you hear from most black republicans when you ask them why? I do believe this is another way to psychology manipulate the black community, to make them second guess their reasons for voting for democratic or not to vote at all to ensure a republican win. Unlike the first time I voted more than 25 years ago, I have access to information that I would not normally see prior to voting. As a black female I can make an informed decision on which party will suit the needs of my family, friends and community the most. I do not agree with everything in the Democratic Party, however I do not agree with anything in the Republican Party. Mellissa Harris Perry is doing a great job! I am very proud of her representation.
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Keith "Tart" Bond
October 21, 2012 at 9:57 am
MHP is great – It’s great to see a woman of color with her on cabel news show. Any black person that does not participate in the electoral process is an ignorant fool! Fannie Lou Hamer – Need I say more!
Samdromeda
October 21, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Render unto Cesar that which is Cesar’s. Render unto God that which is God’s. Vote if you must but God controls the outcomes. The real power is not in the presidency. Voting is essentially gambling. If you are looking to a man to heal your community and you have not asked God to shape the mind and grant the power to exercise the solutions engendered therein then you have simply done an exercise in idolatry which simply puts you in opposition to God.
And that is the height of foolishness.
Samdromeda
October 21, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Render unto Cesar that which is Cesar’s. Render unto God that which is God’s. Vote if you must but God controls the outcomes. The real power is not in the presidency. Voting is essentially gambling. If you are looking to a man to heal your community and you have not asked God to shape the mind and grant the power to exercise the solutions engendered therein then you have simply done an exercise in idolatry which simply puts you in opposition to God.
And that is the height of foolishness.
PB Short
October 20, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Good COP (democrats) verses Bad COP (republicans)…it does not make a difference concerning either party…as their goals, rules, and laws are the same concerning Black America…
If you have notice, when the republicans in the white house, congress is mostly democrats, and when the democrats are in the white house, congress is mostly republican as it is now…
Both parties are guilty of racism, and both parties are responsible for all of the prisons that were built during the 1980′s and 1990′s, and the reasons why these prisons were built was to help employ poor whites…and the only way to do this is to incarcerate Blacks, especially males…
Things in this country will never change unless three things happens simultaneuosly:
1) Congress (house & senate) must becomes over 80% Black…
2) The Black’s elected to congress quit acting like their white counter-part, greedy…
3) The creation of a third political party, mainly consisting of Blacks and non-whites…
By third party, I am not referring to this Tea-Party BS which is all whites who are both democrats and republican…
From Detroit to DC and all across America, there are two many Black elected officials who are more concerned with their own agenda’s..
Re-electing Obama is like buying a lottery ticket…it is all about HOPE, even though we know we are not going to get what we are asking for…there is still that chance something will change…
As president, there is a lot he can do help to with the unemployment problem within Black America, but he chooses not to use his power…
When he bailed out these white owned corporations, he could have stipulated that they stop their racist hiring practices, and others stipulations…
He could have hired Blacks to head his campaign, and fill federal positions at the highest levels…
His healthcare bill is a scam…it is mandated that all Americans must pay for their healthcare under his new plan…and if you do not have a job or money, then how are you pay for this plan?
The deal goes like this; if you cannot afford his healthcare, then you will be covered anyway, and you will owe a TAX…if you ever get back to work, you will not receive a income TAX check until your healthcare bill is paid in full…and it will trickle down to your social security check if you go that long without employment…
Dawn N. McKenzie
October 25, 2012 at 6:26 am
Well PB, I guess nothing will ever change. 10 blacks in an organization can’t get along, can’t love each other because we are conditioned to hate each other, so having an over 80% Congress is a delusional pipe dream. The wicked whites will nuke this country before they ever let that happen.
jett lucas
October 20, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Yes interesting question, but until we can make a 3rd party more formidable unfortunately the answer to her question is he….. that President Obama is just the better option right now. Simple.