[nfbmi-talk] President Obama As Deliverer?

[Christine Boone]

Very well said Terry and Kane.  I do not disagree with anything that you have said here my friends!  
I will not make further political comment upon this list.  

On Feb 6, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Kane Brolin <kbrolin65 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/6/14, Terry D. Eagle <terrydeagle at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I agree that President Obama could use executive order power to prohibit
>> federal contractors from paying less than minimum wage to all employees.
>> Such a bold leadership action, might just put the disabled persons' slave
>> factories out of business.  Then it would be up to Congress to show their
>> colors, and demonstrate whether they shall end slavery for those persons
>> whom it is imposed upon, or will they protect their campaign coffers for special
>> interest masters.
> 
> Sad to say.  But "President Obama" and "bold" are words that should
> not even appear on the same page.  Unlike some, I do not hate the
> President, and I have voted for certain Democratic Party candidates in
> the past.  But aside from his stance on LGBT issues, taken I believe
> largely because this is a fairly well-healed special interest group
> financially speaking, this man is nobody's liberator.  Much like the
> Democratic Party in this country (and especially in Michigan), he has
> sold out his own voter base and is failing to come to the aid of any
> minority group that is truly disenfranchised.  Many African-Americans
> are coming to this same conclusion, even though he holds himself out
> as one of them.
> 
> I'm not trying to divert this list into partisan territory, because I
> like the "loyal opposition" even less at this point.  But I believe
> it's the truth.  A blind acquaintance of mine who works in Cook
> County, Illinois government, told me right after the 2008 election
> what to expect, saying that Barack Obama is known there as the Great
> Compromiser, doing everything he can just to work out the legal
> fiction of a deal without being any kind of real game-changer.  This
> statement has proved to be hauntingly accurate.
> 
> -Kane
> 
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