Bachmann Blasts Obama: "Failed the African-American Community"

Rep. Michele Bachmann, a white woman from Minnesota, called out President Barack Obama for "failing" the Black and Hispanic communities by not boosting abysmally high unemployment rates among these groups.

Bachmann cited double-digit unemployment rates among them as proof that Obama's "status quo is not working for Americans."

"This president has failed the Hispanic community. He has failed the African-American community," Bachmann said while delivering a speech at The Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans last week. "He has failed us all when it comes to jobs."

Bachmann, who hopes to snag the Republican presidential nomination for 2012, said, "The status quo certainly isn't working for the African-American community, with 16 percent unemployment, or the Hispanic community, with nearly 12 percent unemployment."

"It's even worse for the youth: For Hispanic youth right now, 26 percent unemployment; for African-American youth, 40 percent unemployment," she continued.

Indeed, Bachmann's assessment of the unemployment mess in the black and Hispanic communities is dire, as cited in a Huffington Post article in April that suggested Black unemployment is at Depression level highs in some cities.

It is the second time in less than a week that talk of race and President Obama has taken center stage at The Republican Leadership Conference. Reggie Brown, a comedian and Obama impersonator made off-color jokes hinting at the president's mixed race.

"Black Leadership Month," Brown said, "Michelle, she celebrates the full month and you know, I celebrate half."

At another point Brown showed a photo from the show 'Sanford and Son' and made comparisons to the Redd Foxx character to show what Obama might look like when he's older.

Brown was later hauled off stage after he turned the jokes on Republican stars Tim Pawlenty and Bachmann.

Organizers pulled Brown because at that point "the performance had gone too far and was getting inappropriate," according to CNN.

 

By Trymaine Lee

Huckabee NOT running for President in 2012. Shocked, that's what I am, shocked!

 

From the Huffington Post:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he will not run for the Republican presidential nomination, a significant development that removes one of the potential front-runners from contention and brings the slow-moving GOP primary process into sharper focus.

“All the factors say go, but my heart says no and that’s the decision I have made,” Huckabee said at the end of his hour-long weekly television program on Fox News.

No surprise there, pretty much everybody knew that Huckabee was not interested in leaving his cushy job at Fox News to mount a doomed campaign against Presidenet Obama, now the only question remaining is how long can Palin play the tease before she ultimately has to admit that she has no intention, and no hope, of ever taking on the man who makes the GOP look like a bunch of squalling ill-mannered toddlers.

This "Dead Osama Bin Laden" Photo Is Floating Around [AND IT'S PROBABLY FAKE]

Courtesy of TPM:

Once President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces on Sunday, it didn't take long for fake photographs of the terrorist leader's corpse to start circulating. Websites and newspapers fell for them. And so did, apparently, U.S. senators.

Three senators who claimed to have seen a photograph of bin Laden's post-mortem are now backtracking, or flat out admitting that they were duped.

One of the senators is a key decision-maker on national security issues. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said earlier today that he had seen a photo of a slain bin Laden, describing it in some detail without casting any doubt on its authenticity. But sure enough, he now admits he saw a fake.

"I was shown a picture -- it looked like a picture of bin Laden," Chambliss told TPM. "It appeared to be accurate but it was not."

Chambliss said the photo was electronic and someone -- not a senator or government official -- had shown it to him, but he declined to elaborate.

Jesus, Saxby Chambliss is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, you would think he could tell when he was looking at a fake. Guess not.

You know this means that many of YOU are far more intelligent than some of our Senators, since you were all telling each other both yesterday and today that those photos were fake. 

Go ahead.  Give yourselves those pats on the back. You deserve it.

If you click here you an see how the image was faked.

And of course this is just another indication as to why it was a smart move for the White House to decide against releasing the REAL pictures of the dead Bin Laden. No telling what certain photoshop dabblers would have done with THOSE images.
 
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