COMMENTARY | A September Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that the favorability rating for President Barack Obama fell among African-Americans from 83 percent to 58 percent in just five months.
"We've been working so hard on our accomplishments," Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told Politico recently. "Now is the time to tell our story."
In other words, with less than a year to go before the 2012 elections, team Obama has a lot of holiday hocus pocus to spread around before even more African-Americans realize that the president really doesn't give a damn about them.
The whole kerfuffle regarding Obama's abandonment of African-Americans and the broken promises of Hope and Change came to a head in August. While Obama campaigned across the country on his reelection bus tour, key member of the Congressional Black Caucus and California Rep. Maxine Waters expressed anger that the president was curiously avoiding stops in black communities.
"The unemployment is unconscionable," Waters was quoted in a report by CBS. "We don't know what the strategy is. We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community."
The most recent report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (from Dec. 2) shows unemployment among African-Americans stands at 15.5 percent. That's 6.9 percent above the new national average of 8.6 percent.
The September Census Bureau report shows the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 year history that the bureau has been publishing poverty level figures. African-Americans experienced the highest poverty rate of 27 percent. That's up from the level of 25 percent in 2009.
Still, while speaking at the African American Policy and Action Committee in November, Obama had the nerve to tell his audience that his legislative "accomplishments" have "kept millions of folks out of poverty" while making significant investments in the future of black communities.
Although Obama admits that the "investments" he's made to help African-Americans "will not bear full fruit for some years to come," he told them that the yet to exist results of those "investments" must be "protected at the polls next year."
Obama also took the time to remind them that Congress has yet to pass the American Jobs Act. But he avoided mention that the bill sits collecting dust in the Democrat controlled Senate.
While Obama claimed his bill "is the only plan that -- out there -- that independent economists have said would put people to work right now," he also failed to mention the 22 bills drafted and passed by the Republican controlled House, which are also collecting dust in the Democrat controlled Senate.
In the report by Politico we are told that Obama's reelection team has launched a major effort to assure "everyday African-Americans" that the president's first term "accomplishments" have "improved" their lives Of course, the only logical reason why team Obama would find it necessary to make an effort to convince "everyday African-Americans" that their lives have improved is because they know it isn't already obvious.
Team Obama has begun "an aggressive grass-roots effort to re-energize black voters" in Chicago in a desperate effort to "recapture the historic groundswell of 2008." Targeting "beauty and barber shops, church halls and neighborhoods" they hope to persuade the 15.5 percent of unemployed African-Americans and the 27 percent among them who are now living below the poverty level of how well they are doing.
However, in a strategy move that's sure to anger Maxine Waters again, Obama isn't going to be taking his reality obfuscation tour to America's black communities personally. As described by the Daily Mail, the president is far too busy preparing for his "staggering" 17-day vacation in Hawaii with his family.
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