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The full 40 minute video is at the Daily Caller link watch it and draw your own conclusions.

Exclusive: In heated ’07 speech, Obama lavishes praise on Wright, says feds ‘don’t care’ about New Orleans [VIDEO]


n a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.

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“The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims “part of the American family.”

The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.

Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny.

Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a “transcript” of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.

Obama begins his address with “a special shout out” to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama’s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color” became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”

By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem. Wright told The New York Times earlier that year that he would no longer be speaking on the campaign’s behalf because his rhetoric was considered too militant. And yet later in the Hampton speech Obama explicitly defends Wright from unnamed critics, a group he describes as “they”: “They had stories about Trinity United Church of Christ, because we talked about black people in church: ‘Oh, that might be a separatist church,’” Obama said mockingly.

The spine of Obama’s speech is a parable about a pregnant woman shot in the stomach during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

The baby is born with a bullet in her arm, which doctors successfully remove. That bullet, Obama explains, is a metaphor for the problems facing black America, namely racism. (At a similar speech he gave in April of 2007 at the First AME Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the riots, according to a church member who was there, Obama described the slug as, “the bullet of slavery and Jim Crow.”)

At least 53 people were killed during the chaos in Los Angeles, many of them targeted by mobs because of their skin color. But Obama does not describe the riots as an expression of racism, but rather as the result of it. The burning and shooting and looting, he explains, amounted to “Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy, a tragic legacy out of the tragic history of this country, a history this country has never fully come to terms with.”

And with that, Obama pivots to his central point: The Los Angeles riots and Hurricane Katrina have racism in common. “The federal response after Katrina was similar to the response we saw after the riots in LA,” he thunders from the podium. “People in Washington, they wake up, they’re surprised: ‘There’s poverty in our midst! Folks are frustrated! Black people angry!’ Then there’s gonna be some panels, and hearings, and there are commissions and there are reports, and then there’s some aid money, although we don’t always know where it’s going — it can’t seem to get to the people who need it — and nothin’ really changes, except the news coverage quiets down and Anderson Cooper is on to something else.”

It’s at about this point that Obama pauses, apparently agitated, and tells the crowd that he wants to give “one example because this really steams me up,” an example that he notes does not appear in his prepared remarks:

“Down in New Orleans, where they still have not rebuilt twenty months later,” he begins, “there’s a law, federal law — when you get reconstruction money from the federal government — called the Stafford Act. And basically it says, when you get federal money, you gotta give a ten percent match. The local government’s gotta come up with ten percent. Every ten dollars the federal government comes up with, local government’s gotta give a dollar.”

“Now here’s the thing,” Obama continues, “when 9-11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act — said, ‘This is too serious a problem. We can’t expect New York City to rebuild on its own. Forget that dollar you gotta put in. Well, here’s ten dollars.’ And that was the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, ‘Look at this devastation. We don’t expect you to come up with y’own money, here. Here’s the money to rebuild. We’re not gonna wait for you to scratch it together — because you’re part of the American family.’”

That’s not, Obama says, what is happening in majority-black New Orleans. “What’s happening down in New Orleans? Where’s your dollar? Where’s your Stafford Act money?” Obama shouts, angry now. “Makes no sense! Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!”

It’s a remarkable moment, and not just for its resemblance to Kayne West’s famous claim that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” but also because of its basic dishonesty. By January of 2007, six months before Obama’s Hampton speech, the federal government had sent at least $110 billion to areas damaged by Katrina. Compare this to the mere $20 billion that the Bush administration pledged to New York City after Sept. 11.

Moreover, the federal government did at times waive the Stafford Act during its reconstruction efforts. On May 25, 2007, just weeks before the speech, the Bush administration sent an additional $6.9 billion to Katrina-effected areas with no strings attached.

As a sitting United States Senator, Obama must have been aware of this. And yet he spent 36 minutes at the pulpit telling a mostly black audience that the U.S. government doesn’t like them because they’re black.

As the speech continues, Obama makes repeated and all-but-explicit appeals to racial solidarity, referring to “our” people and “our neighborhoods,” as distinct from the white majority. At one point, he suggests that black people were excluded from rebuilding contracts after the storm: “We should have had our young people trained to rebuild the homes down in the Gulf. We don’t need Halliburton doing it. We can have the people who were displaced doing that work. Our God is big enough to do that.”

This theme — that black Americans suffer while others profit — is a national problem, Obama continues: “We need additional federal public transportation dollars flowing to the highest need communities. We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs,” where, the implication is, the rich white people live. Instead, Obama says, federal money should flow to “our neighborhoods”: “We should be investingin minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods, so people don’t have to travel from miles away.”

The solution, Obama says, is a series of new federal programs, including one to teach punctuality to the poor: “We can’t expect them to have all the skills they need to work. They may need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there.”

In the prepared version distributed to reporters, Obama’s speech ends this way:

“America is going to survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, 15 years ago, thousands of years ago.”

That’s not what he actually said. Before the audience at Hampton, Obama ends his speech this way:

“America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 years ago.”

Three hundred years ago. It’s a reference the audience understood.

Read more: VIDEO: Obama speech praises Wright, attacks feds on Katrina | The Daily Caller

DNC scrambles to deflate Obama video before Daily Caller story published

Published: 8:36 PM 10/02/2012
By Alex Pappas/Daily Caller

The Democratic National Committee — armed with the help of dismissive tweets from a variety of journalists — scrambled Tuesday night to attack The Daily Caller for its videos of President Obama’s controversial race comments in 2007 before the story was even published.

Using comments from reporters speculating on TheDC’s report, the Democrats quickly worked to dismiss the story it hadn’t seen yet — which was teased Tuesday afternoon on Sean Hannity’s radio show and on the Drudge Report — by calling it “lame.”

At about 7:30 p.m. ET, the DNC Rapid Response team sent an email to reporters titled “That was Lame,” listing “instant reaction to the latest lame Drudge/Hannity desperation tactics.”

The email merely included tweets from journalists — before the story was published — expressing skepticism and disinterest and the mistaken claim that the video had been published before.

The tweets used by the Democratic National Committee came from reporters at organizations including Politico, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine and the Atlantic.

The mere prospect that videos of Obama talking about race and his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would be published had the committee quickly working to kill the story.

In an attempt to link the story to Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the DNC also sent out an old story about Romney saying he would not make Wright a campaign issue.

Before he knew what was in the story, DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse quickly tweeted his disgust:
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And of course, if the Daily Caller is involved in it you know its complete and utter crap.




Brad Woodhouse @woodhouseb
Man - you know the right wing knows it's in trouble when it dredges up videos that have been on youtube for years as game changers. #lame



Read more: DNC deflates Obama video before Daily Caller story published | The Daily Caller


Here is the full the text of the DNC email:

Please see below the instant reaction to the latest lame Drudge/Hannity desperation tactics.

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp
Tucker Carlson actually covered Obama’s quiet riot speech on his old MSNBC showhttp://nbcnews.to/QMthLf

Andrew Kaczynski ‏@BuzzFeedAndrew
This speech was actually covered on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show Tucker in 2007 oddly enough.
Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp

GAMECHANGER – Obama, in Drudge video, says impoverished communities need help regardless of whether or not they’re hit by hurricanes

Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
The fact that Drudge is trying to make news would weigh against the hypothesis that the polls are tightening.

Sarah Reese Jones ‏@srjones66
HOW YOU CAN TELL THEY ARE LOSING: Fox and Drudge stoop down to Rev Wright again. FYI, this is not working, again.

Jared Keller ‏@jaredbkeller
That’s it? RT @myurow: Here’s the Reverend Wright clip Drudge and Fox are teasing:Barack Obama Praising His Pastor Jeremiah Wright... - YouTube

Tim Dickinson ‏@7im I believe this is what they call “grasping at straws”

Ben Smith ‏@BuzzFeedBen
This stuff has all been on YouTube since the last campaign, Obama’s race, religion, pastor known a bit longer

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp
nevermind, the part Drudge is teasing about Rev Wright has been on youtube since 2008http://youtu.be/geSRuNtlg24

Stefan Becket ‏@stefanjbecket
That was lame.

Farhad Manjoo ‏@fmanjoo
If Drudge/Hannity really are touting this speech they’re idiots. It’s a fantastic speech. We should be proud a president made this speech.

Garance Franke-Ruta ‏@thegarance
So basically the news in the Hampton Roads video is that Obama is black, opposed the Iraq War, & thought NOLA was neglected after Katrina.

Jason Linkins ‏@dceiver
This is probably just a new dubstep version of the Hampton Roads speech.

Dave Zirin ‏@EdgeofSports
According to the death pornographers at @buzzfeed, the “new Obama video” has been online since 2007. A speech at Hampton.

Michael Winship ‏@MichaelWinship
Extrapolating from Drudge headlines, shocking Obama tape is same as one popped up in 2008 campaign from 2007 Hampton U. convocation. 0 new.

sethdmichaels ‏@sethdmichaels
sooooo, you basically already have to think Obama is bent on revenge for racial grievance for this video to bother you: Is This The Video Drudge Is Teasing?

Jake Sherman ‏@JakeSherman
here’s where conservative critics lashed out against the Obama speech drudge is pimping …. but this was 2007 Obama's 'quiet riots' are for real - CNN

Walter Shapiro ‏@waltershapiroPD
Since Drudge & Co. believe Rev. Wright is potent GOP weapon, remember: No incumbent president has lost votes over anything pre-White House.

Read more: DNC deflates Obama video before Daily Caller story published | The Daily Caller

This whole speech he told Blacks that the Government hate them, and at the time he was giving this speech Bush sent $6.9 billion to rebuild New Orleans. And promised $110 billion total.

Video surfaces of Obama in 2007 suggesting racism slowed aid to post-Katrina New Orleans

Published October 02, 2012

​It's the Obama speech on race you probably haven't heard.

In June 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly black audience of ministers that the country's leaders "don't care about" New Orleans residents, suggesting the city was neglected in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because of institutional racism, according to a an unedited video uncovered by The Daily Caller.

In the address, delivered during the upswing of the Democratic presidential primary season, candidate Obama specifically criticizes in outspoken terms the decision not to waive a federal law known as the Stafford Act that requires communities hit by disasters to match 10 percent of federal aid.

“When 9/11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act. … And that was the right thing to do,” he tells the crowd at Hampton University in Virginia. “When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, 'Look at this devastation. We don't expect you to come up with your own money. Here, here's the money to rebuild. We're not going wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.' "

Obama, echoing rapper Kanye West's infamous anti-Bush remarks a couple years earlier, then argues that New Orleans was treated differently, suggesting the reason was that the city is mostly black.

"What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money?" Obama says. "Makes no sense. ... Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans they don't care about as much."

The Obama campaign didn't response to FoxNews.com's request for comment Tuesday night about the Daily Caller report and the video, but the Associated Press reported that Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt dismissed the criticism as "a transparent attempt to change the subject" at a time when Mitt Romney is down in the polls.

Media organizations covered the speech at the time, but the Daily Caller said the video it obtained showed parts of the speech that had never been publicized. It posted what it said was the complete speech on the website.

By January 2007, nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina hit, the federal government had committed $110 billion to relief efforts in areas hit by Katrina through a variety of programs, including Community Development Block Grants, funding for the Corps of Engineers and Small Business Administration loans, according to a report that May by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic and Statistics Administration.

But at the time of Obama's speech, there were still concerns about federal response to the disaster under the Stafford Act, which governs relief efforts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was unwilling to waive the law’s 10 percent local match provision for aid, like it did after the Sept. 11 attacks and other hurricanes.

“One reason cited for FEMA’s reluctance to waive the 10 percent match in New Orleans is concern about corruption,” the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies said in a 2008 report on the relief efforts.

That report also noted that then-Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco was pushing in early 2007 for a federal law eliminating the 10 percent match. The House passed the bill, but it stalled in the Senate and President Bush had threatened to veto it.

The complete video of Obama’s 2007 speech, surfacing barely a month before the presidential election and the night before Obama’s first debate with Romney, could complicate Obama’s efforts to avoid a politically risky debate over race that partly ensnared him during the 2008 race. Four years ago, his fiery pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, became a political liability over videos that showed Wright making controversial statements.

Obama, after initially defending him, eventually was forced to condemn Wright publicly, and the controversy prompted Obama to deliver his much-heralded 2008 address on race in Philadelphia.

Wright reportedly attended the 2007 speech, and in the video obtained by the Daily Caller, Obama is heard calling Wright "my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He's a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country."

The Daily Caller also highlighted a segment in which Obama questions federal priorities in transportation spending.
"We need additional federal public transportation dollars flowing to the highest-need communities. We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. If we have people in the cities right now who want to work but have no way to get into those jobs, we've got to help connect them to the jobs that exist,” Obama said. “We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods, so people don’t have to travel from miles away.”

Read more: Video surfaces of Obama in 2007 suggesting racism slowed aid to post-Katrina New Orleans | Fox News

Just who are the "rich" that Obama rails against?

ANOTHER UNEARTHED SPEECH? 2002 CLIP SHOWS OBAMA RAILING AGAINST RICH PEOPLE WHO INFLICT ‘VIOLENCE’ BY USING ‘ACCOUNTANTS AND TAX LOOPHOLES’

October 3, 2012 at 2:25pm by Mytheos Holt

In what could become more controversial remarks, an old video of Barack Obama has surfaced showing the then-state senator accusing rich people of using their economic power to “violate” the lives of their employees, and keep them down.
Morgen Richmond appears to have uncovered this latest attack on the wealthy by the man who would be president. It comes from an address by Obama on Martin Luther King day in 2002, first uploaded to Google Video three years ago, and recently publicized on the blog Patterico’s Pontifications.

Patterico describes the speech this way:

By and large it is a nice speech by a rising politician. Obama speaks about the need for empathy in society, about taking responsibility for our actions, and the audacity of hope. He levels barbs at the wealthy and unempathetic, but also criticizes those who blame the system for the arrest of O.J. Simpson and the crack epidemic. Although the audio quality is poor because of the echo in the church, one can tell that Obama is well spoken and articulate. Joe Biden would have been proud.
But there are a few times when the mask slips, just a little.

View the controversial section of Morgen’s video below, followed by Patterico’s transcript:.



The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. You know, the principle of empathy gives broader meaning, by the way, to Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable.The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. I’m not saying that what Enron executives did to their employees is the moral equivalent of what Bull Connor did to black folks, but I’ll tell you what, the employees at Enron feel violated. When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence.

TheBlaze has not yet managed to find evidence of these clips getting traction during the 2008 election cycle.

However, that’s not to say that their existence went completely unnoticed, and given that the video was posted three years ago, it’s eminently plausible that at least one media outlet noticed. Nevertheless, it seems this is the first sustained coverage these clips have received, and they are certainly of interest.

You can watch more excerpts from the speech over at Patterico’s Pontifications.
The Blaze

Full Speech.

Obama 2002 MLK speech: "Rich people are all for non-violence", unless they are perpetrating it

From the Blackshpere, Kevin Jackson.

In light of the recent video that just came out, where 0 is ranting on about how "they" don't care about "them/black Americans," and "they" wont FULLY help in the restoration of Katrina - it appears that 0 had conveniently omitted a few important details. The demorats seem to have a habit of doing this.

In this particular bill 0 was one that voted AGAINST helping with the recovery of Katrina: H.R. 2206 (U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007)

He must have felt pretty strong about this because it's one of the rare occasions that he didn't vote "present."

It is also worth noting that this bill included Veterans' Care.

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.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110^th Congress - 1^st Sessionas compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary

Question: On the Motion (Motion to Concur in House Amdt. to Senate Amdt to H.R.2206 )
Vote Number:	181	Vote Date:	May 24, 2007, 08:26 PM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Motion Agreed to
Measure Number:	H.R. 2206 (U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 )
Measure Title:	Making emergency supplemental appropriations and additional supplemental appropriations for agricultural and other emergency assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	80
	NAYs	14
	Not Voting	6

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Menendez (D-NJ), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Obama (D-IL), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Salazar (D-CO), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Not Voting Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Smith (R-OR), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Stevens (R-AK), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Yea Tester (D-MT), Yea Thomas (R-WY), Not Voting Thune (R-SD), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Warner (R-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Nay

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FLASHBACK: Obama only disagreed with Kanye’s ‘phrasing’ that ‘Bush doesn’t care about ‘black people’

10/04/2012
By Vince Coglianese



Sen. Barack Obama once told a Cambridge, Mass., audience that he only disagreed with Kanye West’s “phrasing” when he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

According to Breitbart.com’s Lee Stranahan, the video his site has resurfaced* of the future president was shot Sept. 17, 2005 at a Harvard Law School Association Award Luncheon. The video’s description says Obama was delivering the keynote speech at the “Celebration of Black Alumni” weekend.

“You know, after the hurricane and its aftermath, there was a lot of discussion about the fact that those who were impacted by the achingly slow response on the part of the federal government were disproportionately black,” said Obama. “And one of my favorite musicians — that’s right, I’m 44 but I still can hang — Kanye West said, said on a telethon, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’”

Obama smiled and told his audience, “And that also shook up the ordinary.”

“NBC scrambled,” Obama joked before laughing about the reaction by comedian Mike Myers who appeared shocked by Kanye’s ranting.

“I love Kanye’s music,” Obama went on, “but I actually disagreed with how he phrased his statement.”

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Obama went on to say that it wasn’t “active malice” toward blacks that influenced the government’s response to the disaster, but instead “indifference” toward the race.

“I do not ascribe to the White House or to FEMA, to Mr. Chertoff or Mr. Brown, any act of malice. I don’t think that they were in there plotting and saying, ‘You know, these are black people. Let’s not rescue them,’” Obama explained.

He continued, “But rather, what was revealed was a passive indifference that is common in our culture, common in our society.”

Obama said the country didn’t understand that majority-black New Orleans couldn’t just “hop in your SUV and fill it up with $100 in gasoline and load up your trunk with some sparkling water, and take your credit card and check in into the nearest hotel until the storm passes.”

“And the notion that folks couldn’t do that simply did not register in the minds of those in charge,” Obama lamented, “and it’s not surprising that it didn’t register, because it hasn’t registered for the last 6, 7, 8, 20, 50, 75, 100 years.”

Obama insisted that New Orleans “had been abandoned” long ago.

“The incompetence was colorblind,” Obama said, a line he would be sure to repeat multiple times over the years when discussing the federal response to Katrina, “but, what was important to understand was the fact that the people that we saw in front of the Superdome and in front of the convention center, they had been abandoned before the hurricane.”

He told his Harvard audience that “violence” had long dominated New Orleans, but the media chose to ignore it “because it wasn’t spilling out onto the lives of the rest of us.”

By 2007, Obama’s phrasing when referring to the federal response to New Orleans sounded an awful lot like West’s.

“The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama told an audience of black ministers.
West would later apologize for calling President Bush a racist after the former president told NBC that the rant “was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency.”

In 2009, President Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” for interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Read more: FLASHBACK: Obama only disagreed with Kanye's 'phrasing' | The Daily Caller

president barack obama - kanye west - jackass (actual video) 2009.09.16

Despite his talking about indifference to the plight of black Americans, it was apparent to me during his campaigning that Obama cared more about the plight of his precious Undocumented Democrats.

After he was elected, he ignored a December, 2009, letter from the Congressional Black Caucus which called for redirecting T.A.R.P. funds into job creation and job training. The first paragraph of the Caucus's letter called for those redirected funds to go to American Citizens who live in communities where unemployment is highest..

Now, in the runup to the election, he bestows a huge benefit on the children of illegals, while continuing to ignore the CBC's call for money to be directed to job creation and job training for American citizen.

The videos which have been unearthed show yet again that 'Bama can make sensational speeches, but his actions since becoming president show that he is perfectly willing to throw the poorest Americans under the bus, to strengthen the prospects for his reelection.
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