President Obama is in deep trouble after his now infamous “take off your bedroom slippers and stop complaining” speech he gave to the CBC a few days ago. Many in the African American community were offended as depicted by Tavis Smiley.
Rep Maxine Waters, one of Obama’s most staunchest supporters, was none too happy either.
Obama has created a big mess for himself with his most loyal base.
The Hill
Behind the president’s whining to the Black Caucus, begging them to “quit grumbling,” is a decline in his personal popularity among African-American voters that could portend catastrophe for his fading reelection chances.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey, his favorability rating among African-Americans has dropped off a cliff, plunging from 83 percent five months ago to a mere 58 percent today — a drop of 25 points, a bit more than a point per week!
Nothing is more crucial to the president’s reelection strategy than a super-strong showing among black voters. In the election of 2008, he was able to increase African-American participation from 11 percent of the total vote in 2004 to 14 percent. He carried 98 percent of them. This swing accounted for fully half of his gain over the showing of John Kerry. Now his ability to repeat that performance is in doubt.
And the emergence of Herman Cain as a serious Republican candidate could not have come at a worse time for the embattled president. Cain’s alternate narrative — self-help, entrepreneurial skill, hard work and self-improvement — stands in stark contrast to the victimization/class warfare argument that the president has adopted.
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All is not lost for the president though. All he has to do is pull the race card on the eventual GOP nominee and it should energize Blacks again. It’s always worked in the past, right? Or are those days over, finally?
Memeorandum
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