nope,you cannot stop the Blacks from voting for him,but nice try though!

Decent enough column, but she lays it on a bit thick with ...

"72% of children in the Black community are born to unwed mothers. The Black American drop-out rate from high school is at 40%, and incarceration among Black American males is at almost 10%."

The President has no control over whether or not people choose to
a) marry their partners.
b) finish high-school.
c) commit crimes (presuming that's why these people are in jail).

With a maximum of 8 years in office, even if he magically made all of those POOR CHOICES disappear, what happens once he leaves office?

Obama says the Blacks are bought and paid for so he doesn't have to talk to them.
At least that's what he tells his rich, white, fatcat, golf buddies.
Heh,heh,heh,heh,heh...

All the talk about race -- on both sides -- is preposterous and a smokescreen. The only reason race is being discussed is because this president wants to talk about ANYTHING other than his job performance, the economy, and the unemployment rate. I wish the media and people would stop being sucked into race debates, as well as "personal finances" debates, because they are merely being put out there by the media elites to focus on irrelevant and emotional things, while their man gets a free pass.

Todd - yep!

Todd apparently hasn't listened to any of the Presidents speeches because he always mentions his accomplishments,the economy,and the unemployment cause by the incompetence of Republicans along with their malfeasance in office under the Dumbya Bush regime when they more than doubled the national debt in less than 8 years after blowing a 900 billion surplus left them by Clinton along with balanced budgets as far as the eyes could see into the future.
The last 2 years of Bush they outsourced millions of American jobs due to the policies and/or legislation they passed including free trade deals that hurt America and its workers.

Well! Todd part of your statement is on point, but you tell me how can this President get thing rolling without the help of the Congress ,they have been busy doing nothing also ,blocking his every move like we are watching a giant "CHESS GAME" checkmate! You can't tell me that he didn't adopte some of their proposals and they still wouldn't budge.They have been busy taking care of people private and Civil Rights ,trying to dismantle them.

and,i bet thanks to bushs'term a lot of haliburtons employees are illegal immigrants,with low wages!

Obama's present strategy is so pernicious because he is misleading the tribe of "American protectionists" into thinking that he shares their populist attitudes. Nonsense. If reelected to another term, he's no more going to stop outsourcing or end offshore bank accounts (though some of Romney's seem shady) than he's going to renegotiate NAFTA. He's going to keep staffing his economic team with establishment elites from Wall Street and Ivy League universities. Any blue-collar populist who votes for Obama is going to be and feel betrayed. They're going to have less faith in politics. Told that a pol shares their perspective, only to find out that they were misled, some of them will wind up radicalized.

They'd be better off if Obama were just honest with them: Free trade, outsourcing, and Swiss bank accounts aren't going anywhere, regardless of who is elected in November and sworn in next year. In America, the left has no champion on these issues. Obama would be within his rights to claim that he has a plan to marginally reduce outsourcing, but that plan is premised on the notion that bad policy presently creates an incentive for companies to shift their labor abroad; it's therefore at odds with the idea that a CEO whose company outsourced is a pernicious man or bad leader. By the logic of Obama's own plan, tax policy is the problem, not guys like Romney. Do you know what figure I'd love to see? The number of Obama staffers and advisers who've outsourced a job at some time versus the number who've ever had one of their jobs outsourced.