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NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Monday, January 28, 2013

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous said Sunday that black Americans “are doing a full point worse” than when President Obama first took office.

“The country’s back to pretty much where it was when this president started,” Mr. Jealous told MSNBC host David Gregory on “Meet the Press.” “White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing a full point worse.”

The black unemployment rate was 12.7 percent when Mr. Obama took office. While the unemployment rate in the U.S. as a whole is below 8 percent, the Labor Department reported the black jobless rate was up from 12.9 percent to 14 percent for December.

The worst during Mr Obama’s first term was in September 2011, with 16.7 percent unemployment for blacks — the highest since 1983, the Department of Labor reports. The black teen jobless rate hit a staggering 39.3 percent in July 2012.

The NAACP, the National Urban League and the National Action Network, among others, met for the second time on Friday to discuss a “black agenda” for the president, Politic365 reports. The coalition stated it will urge Mr. Obama to mention an urban jobs plan in his State of the Union speech on Feb. 12.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would negotiate a deal that he acknowledges will fund terrorism, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would negotiate a deal that he acknowledges will fund terrorism, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would lecture Christians on the crusades and call a growing army of Islamic radicals “junior varsity,” you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would argue before the Supreme Court that there is no ministerial exception in the First Amendment, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama’s administration would suggest before the Supreme Court that they might take away the tax exempt status of churches and religious institutions that do not support gay marriage, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would do nothing if Russia invaded Ukraine, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama’s administration would preside over the largest hack of personnel records and the families of American soldiers would have muslim men show up at their homes in the United States to intimidate them, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

If I told you in 2008 that Barack Obama would publicly release classified details about Israel’s nuclear capabilities, you’d have thought me a conspiracy theorist.

Well, here we are and all those things have happened.

$20 trillion man: National debt nearly doubles during Obama presidency


When President Obama signs into law the new two-year budget deal Monday, his action will bring into sharper focus a part of his legacy that he doesn’t like to talk about: He is the $20 trillion man.

Mr. Obama’s spending agreement with Congress will suspend the nation’s debt limit and allow the Treasury to borrow another $1.5 trillion or so by the end of his presidency in 2017. Added to the current total national debt of more than $18.15 trillion, the red ink will likely be crowding the $20 trillion mark right around the time Mr. Obama leaves the White House.

When Mr. Obama took over in January 2009, the total national debt stood at $10.6 trillion. That means the debt will have very nearly doubled during his eight years in office, and there is much more debt ahead with the abandonment of “sequestration” spending caps enacted in 2011.

Liar in Chief. I heard that pos say that we must not "speculate" on who is responsible for the multiple terror attacks.