And then he has the gall to engage in racial stereotypes by stating that , “But one good thing that comes out of it,” he conceded, “is that it essentially desegregates the welfare population,” merging urban blacks with “the working poor, which are the other people.” President Obama seems to “think” that urban blacks are a different population than the working poor. Are urban Latinos the working poor or the non-working poor? Are there no urban whites that are the non-working urban poor? Do all Americans get segregated into stereotypes by President Obama, is that what he believes? Do “urban blacks” believe that they are the non-working poor?
Who is it that holds minorities in contempt? Who wants to use the poor for political gain?
Perhaps now, in the wake of the heat that Mitt Romney is taking over the leaked four month old “47 percent” video, he can better appreciate the position of Todd Akin.
Romney is being accused of writing off “47 percent” of voters as not paying taxes and “dependent upon government,” who “believe government has a responsibility to care for them.”
Of course Romney’s words, recorded behind closed doors at a fundraiser, were not, as he admitted, well chosen. No candidate would call half the electorate dead beats.
But when Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin used...
Who is clearly the racist? Who wants minorities, the working poor, and the lower middle class to stay that way so that he and his party can "harness" them for purely partisan politics?