Monday, September 26, 2011

Maxine Waters doesn't know who Obama was talking to

On the heels of Saturday's speech by the president to the congressional black caucus, Maxine Waters is one of many questioning the president's speech. Albeit she avoids any outright attack on Barack Obama, her sentiments show through. Maxine Waters is obviously upset over what she considers the "curious words" that the president used to address the CBC on Saturday. "Curious words" is a code phrase that strikes directly at what Waters and other CBC members know was a direct slap at them by the president. Albeit she doesn't want to give the impression during her media interview, that she and the rest of the CBC got their comeuppance from the man in the big house on Saturday.
Maxine Waters on Obama "I don't know who he was talking to because we're certainly not complaining," Waters said on CBS' "The Early Show." "We're working. We support him, and we're protecting that base because we want people to be enthusiastic about him when that election rolls around." "I found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the Hispanic Caucus, and certainly they're pushing him on immigration... he certainly didn't tell them to stop complaining," she said. "And he would never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Rep. Waters can obfuscate all that she wants to, but she knows precisely who he was talking to. The bottom line is this. Everyone knows who the president's remarks were aimed at Saturday. Those remarks were aimed directly at Maxine Waters and the rest of the CBC who are not in lock step with Obama's programs and policy. Specifically as it applies to jobs and the unemployment rate among blacks. Waters knows damn well that blacks are taking a brunt of the effects of this recession and unemployment. As she equally knows who is responsible for the ongoing reality of unemployment in the black community. But she nor the rest of the party's plantation overseers should be saying anything about it or else. You can bet, Maxine heard the president's message clearly and she saw the podium slap as a signal. .

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