Profiles In Fierce Advocacy: People Think You Should Be At Least As Good As Some White Guy

Image credit: Rep. Maxine Waters official website


More of an indirect quote via Politico, but I love it anyway:

[Rep. Maxine Waters CA-35] had expressed out loud the sense of frustration that a president whose election was hailed as a crowning moment in African-Americans’ struggle for equality has not resulted in the sweeping change pioneered by a white Southern Democrat’s Great Society four decades earlier.

President Obama learns perils of roiling Maxine Waters

Ouch! Oh, and snap! I added that emphasis, of course, and the link.

Nothing quite captures how useless Barack Obama has been as President, both to African Americans and the rest of us. Taylor Marsh adds:

Whether Pres. Obama is comfortable addressing this specific reality head on or not, minority unemployment is a ticking bomb.

For the first African American president to not be able to speak directly to the plights of minority unemployed, which is Rep. Waters’ home base, represents the mirror image of Obama’s lack of connection with the blue collar working class, whose economic plight is also turning downward.

The Perils of Pissing off Maxine

There’s a lot of trouble out here in the land beyond the Beltway. Unemployment is worst in minority communities, I expect, but there are predominately white ones that will be getting there soon. Nothing makes a country unstable like lots of young unemployed men contemplating their bleak futures. Just ask Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Greece.

Maxine Waters isn’t Barack Obama’s problem – she’s just one of the least problematic symptoms.

If President Fierce Advocate weren't so utterly uninterested in our problems out here, I suspect he'd be hearing a lot less from Rep. Waters.

He'd definitely be hearing a lot less from me.