'Personal insult' for Obama if black Americans don't vote Clinton

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President Barack Obama told a predominantly black audience it would be a “personal insult” if they don’t back Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the November presidential elections.

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner on Saturday night, Obama said he would take it as an “insult to [his] legacy” if there isn’t a strong black turnout for Clinton.

"My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot," he said. "Tolerance is on the ballot. Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot, ending mass incarceration, that’s on the ballot right now.”


Obama used the civil rights movement and the struggle to enable African Americans to get the vote to remind the audience of the importance of casting their ballots.

“I am reminded of all those folks who had to count bubbles in a bar of soap, beaten trying to register voters in Mississippi,” he said. “Risked everything so that they could pull that lever. So, if I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect, read up on your history. It matters.”

The president pressed the crowd to give him a good send-off by registering people to vote. “If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake, on the progress we have made is at stake in this election,” he said.

Obama attacked Republican candidate Donald Trump’s claim that black Americans have “nothing to lose” in voting for Trump over Clinton.  “[Trump] says we’ve got nothing left to lose, so we might as well support somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality and who has shown no regard for working people for most of his life,” Obama said. “Well, we do have challenges. But we’re not stupid.”

Obama has been criticized for failing to do enough for black Americans during his presidency. Many Americans feel that the first black president has failed to make enough progress for the black community. The founding of the Black Lives Matter movement, numerous examples of police brutality against black people, and a lack of employment opportunities have been cited indications that Obama has not done enough.

    Mr. Obama I take your 8 years of higher crime, terrorism, illegals, unemployment, food stamps & War on as a personal slap to the face of
    — Im A YUGE Deplorable (@los001979) September 18, 2016

    Obama claims that Trump is out to ruin his legacy, no honey, Trump is out to #MAGA. You ruined your own legacy by being a terrible president
    — Black Women 4 Trump (@TallahForTrump) September 18, 2016

On the other hand, Obama has been commended for granting clemency to prisoners charged with minor offences, and has recently announced the phasing out of the so-called, for profit prisons. Obama pushed for a $75 million police body camera program in response to the police killings of unarmed black men, and created initiatives to support black youths.

Clinton also spoke at the event, where she received the Trailblazer award for being the first female presidential candidate for a major US political party. She praised the Obama family and dismissed Trump’s ‘birther’ comments.

Obama joked with the crowd about Trump’s declaration that Obama was in fact born in the US. The billionaire businessman recently convened a press conference to announce that he no longer believes Obama was not born in America.

“There’s an extra spring in my step tonight. I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over,” Obama said. “I mean, ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change ― none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate. And to think that with just 124 days to go, under the wire we got that resolved. That’s a boost for me in the home stretch.”

1. Its as silly to be 'personally insulted' by anothers choice of candidate as it is to be by anothers choice to say a pledge

2. I really dont think he needed to make the statement, not seeing a large black turnout for Trump,,,lol the man has as low as one percent support from the black community

1. Its as silly to be 'personally insulted' by anothers choice of candidate as it is to be by anothers choice to say a pledge

2. I really dont think he needed to make the statement, not seeing a large black turnout for Trump,,,lol the man has as low as one percent support from the black community

Obonzo is an idiot.

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Black voters are turning from Clinton to Trump in new poll

Donald Trump is gaining support among African-American voters — whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is eroding, a tracking poll released Saturday revealed.

Trump saw a 16.5 percentage-point increase in backing from African-American voters in a Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll, up from 3.1 percent on Sept. 10 to 19.6 percent through Friday.

Meanwhile, the same poll showed Clinton’s support among that group plummeting from 90.4 percent on Sept. 10 to 71.4 percent.

Clinton’s nearly 20-point crash began Sunday, said Dan Schnur of USC. Sunday was the day Clinton was recorded collapsing while entering a Secret Service van at a 9/11 event.

The survey, which spanned through Friday, included the days in which Trump reignited the divisive “birther” issue — which critics contend is a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the country’s first black president.

Late Wednesday, Trump had refused to acknowledge that President Obama was born in the United States, demurring on the topic in a Washington Post interview published the next day.

But at a bizarre press conference at Trump International, his new ­hotel in Washington, DC, on Friday, the tycoon conceded, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”

For the week, the poll found a 6-point rise for Trump. The Republican is now at 47.2 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 41.2 percent.

“It’s the largest shift we’ve seen in a one-week period since we began polling in July,” Schnur said.

http://nypost.com/2016/09/18/black-voters-are-turning-from-clinton-to-trump-in-new-poll/

wont matter, he wont get a large turnout of black people,,,

perhaps some are temporarily duped by his flip flop on obamas birth certificate,,,lol even black voters can be shallow and/or fickle


I always wish these poll results came with the questions ask

there is a difference between who will you vote for A or B?

and how likely on a scale of 1-10 are you to vote for (A or B)

I suspect this poll did the latter, and included the shifts of anyone that moved from below to above a six to 'supporting' Trump