Obama and great expectations

[MrHumpdawg]

Glenn u r a tool of white sempremist. U mix a little truth with damaging statements- blacks should revolt against obama. where is your solution for black un-employment? The tea-party is not Obama's creation or any other so-called far right movement. As for grassroots movements within the black community they never start in the white house - not his responsibility. He had his days working in the community grass-roots level remember. Obama's short-comings are very minimal looking at the bush admn.

[MrHumpdawg]

I am an african american, I am God-fearing Christain, and I consider myself neither democrat or republican, liberal or conservative . I love my race, country, and my savior. I say this so im not confused with any racist or nonpatriotic group. When given lemons the wise make lemonade. with crap he makes fertilizer. Obama should be applauded not simply for becoming our first black president but also for his composure & courage during some of the worst of times economically and politically.

[MrRogersheppard]

Glen Ford stands his ground and speaks real truth to (Obama) Power. He clearly

states that Obama works for the Militarists and Wall Street!

[sumlvf]

Hey Obama you could take a lesson from Texas and there healthcare that you must be so ashamed of. Tarrant county has the best healthcare, I had my knee replaced in Fort Worth at JPS hospital. Surgeon, hospital stay of 4 days, physical rehab that came to my home for 6 weeks 3 times a week total cost $200.00. Obama could take a lesson from Texas. Woops I forgot he hates this country.

[sniper71267]

Wow you people were fooled bigtime. Look up the 3 wars of Albert Pike. Then tell me how a man of 1871 predicted all 3 world wars so accurately? I mean he is better than Nostradamus. He will tell you when and where they take place. Albert Pike is the man who formed the KKK and the mafia back in 1860's and was a 33 degree mason. Why is Obama preparing for war with Iran and does he know he is following orders from the KKK.

[jackthenigger]

The red hearing are for the liberal racist whites who voted for him. He knows that if he becomes too black and specifically help average black people, the whites would dump him. The ultimate practical joke on black ancestors that the first non-white is a uncle tom. I hope black people stop paying taxes to this evil system and give the middle finger to the racist establishment in 2010 and 2012.

[tanio12]

jack which racist establishment conservatives or liberals?

[jackthenigger]

tanio12

BOTH! especially the fucking racist white liberals.

[sniper71267]

@jackthenigger you dont know the half of it. I will prove to you that Obama is following the orders of the KKK. Albert Pike who formed the KKK and the mafia in the 1860's wrote about all 3 world wars we would face and it is more accurate than Nostradamus. Look up the 3 wars of Albert Pike on here. Then look up the Rex84 memo and tell me this is not the workings of the KKK. Please help me wake people up.

[jackthenigger]

sniper71267

Obuma didnt hand over tax money to the KKK!.

[oldskoolcountry]

WHAT? you havent noticed the change?....poverty is over, the sun shines brighter, it never rains anymore, all the homeless have homes...hey, welfare and unemployment pay more so the lazy STILL dont have to work, the economy is stronger than ever, osama bin laden has been captured and was invited to the white house dinner...oh and did i mention we're out of iraq just like he said we would be?? oops...i guess youre right, not much has changed. it must be bush's fault.

[Alexander021]

Could someone please tell me exacly WHAT that changed???

[afare1]

well, he's still a shit load better than bush atleast, im still stunted that he was voted in...TWICE

[DeraJa]

wait... is this guy black? really?

[afare1]

@DeraJa yea i agree, he's white, not that it matters

[SAMRAM29]

He is black. He is the editor of the Black Agenda Report.

[SAMRAM29]

Yes the brotha is Black.

[taskforcecomputer]

workers councils now! media black out. general strike all power to the communes!

[dantheleo]

Expect nothing positive from obama and this administration and you won't be disappointed.  That is all your going to get, nothing in abundance!

[attnMoFo]

Two books for your reading list:

The Sorrows of Empire and Blowback, both by Chalmers Johnson

And stop praying the altar of Barry O'Hypenstein.

[zoticus1]

Chalmers Johnson is in the inside group who has been working for empire so I would be very skeptical to believe him.

[attnMoFo]

Thanks. I'll check it out.

[out2gtme]

23 trillion is chump change, Wait till obama and the overfed really get crankin!

whatchu talkin bout willis. we've had it !

[longlivetheloud2]

Workingmen of all nations, unite.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Hear, hear!

*Working folk ;-)

[bbburton]

Corporatism is not the free market. Gov bailout is not salvation.

[CillaF1]

"Creating new jobs" is a term I never understood to begin with. How about creation of opportunity? Threw affordable housing and education. We don't need creation of new jobs, we need creation of equal opprotunity. I wish a real black man was given the opportunity to be a president.

[sircesare]

what he means by a new moment he means a new goverment system...which i agree the one we are running is going to shit...

[taxisgay12]

look up "hitler finds out obama wins"

short quote-"WTF?! HOW DOES HE GET 100% OF THE BLACK VOTE AND HE'S NOT EVEN BLACK.HE'S ARAB".

on the serious side expect the exact opposite with everything he say's.when any politician says "i'm confident this will work" it'll be another miserable failure.

peace be with all non-corrupt entities.

[whturschoice]

you expect too much.

[JohnFrancis25]

No man will ever live up to expections.

[jemsdj]

if he does that, it will be too visible. the biggest achievement for black people will be if he can make America ignore the fact that he is black.

[asphyxiafeeling]

Hey shout out to the Huffington Post! I always read them.

Everybody on the left was wary of Obama of being too good to be true. Now that the bubble is bursting i don't think anybody can be too surprised. For his credit, Obama is barely tilting to the left on most issues right now and he's still being accused as being a socialist etc etc. we just live in a conservative country.

I'd love to see a new anti-war movement. In the age of the internet i think organized activism has great potential!

[attnMoFo]

The HP is changing tide, a bit. Arianna needs to stop posting all that fucking fashion and celebrity shit on their front page, then maybe I'll take them seriously. They covered all that balloon boy bullshit just as much as CNN, while deriding their coverage. Oh, and they need to stop covering the First Family's clothes, dog, and what they had for dinner. They also need to stop avoiding the issue of Israel and her atrocities.

[Idtelos]

Obama is nothing but a puppet for the elites. Skin color does not matter when it comes to puppets.

[BlackAzzRobb]

1776: Free blacks can vote in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.....1965: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspends literacy tests in the Deep South and provides federal enforcement of black registration and voting rights. We have been voting for the lesser of the two evils for a long time. Give this president a chance to do his job before you condemn him.

[Hendo1974]

He is a half-caste NOT Black!PERIOD!Heck his mother was white not black, just like Tiger Woods, he is not black!He is just another NWO puppet like the bushes and clintons!Give me a break!

[Hendo1974]

Yes, We can-reversed=Thank You Satan!

Hope-NOPE=NWO!

[Paetaor]

I tend to agree with his basic premise that giving the money to the working class and not WallStreet would have worked better.

[gov360dotorg]

It ain't Obama's job to make us a functioning representative Republic - it is ours. But as long as over 90% of the people cannot even NAME their current representative, we are NOT a functional Republic - we are a form of government called a JOKE!

Join GOV360 as we work to find answers.

REVOLUTION is in the CONSTITUTION

[RPDiesel]

Communism!!!! End of story.....

[Trollmaster21]

Johnny Cochran Attorney General? Now there's a scary thought.

[allgoo19]

@Trollmaster21

I agree, it's scary.

To be qualified as an attorney general, the person, at least, should be breathing.

[MetallicaRunner1]

The video isn't working.

[BlackAzzRobb]

It is for just this reason we are always looked at as crabs in a barrel.We have been given the right to choose between the lesser of the two evils for some time now. This man hasn't been in office a year and you have ppl like this who seem to have lost all of there commen sence the day Pres.Obama was put into office. Thinking to themselves change is gonna happen over night. Don't be such a Troglodyte. Think... this is Amerikkka! Everything takes time. No change comes over night.

[zoticus1]

it is not his lack of action, its the actions he has done!

you must be willing to criticize your actions in voting for him in order to see the blatant betrayal end outright lies he spouted on the campaign trail to us all,yes politicians often do not keep their promises but he promised CHANGE.

where is it?!

[attnMoFo]

Incremental progressive change ain't enough! This is not the time for incremental change. Frankly, the changes we got were bigger lies, doublespeak, and even more war and aggression. We got a Noble Laureate with a 36 minute infomercial for war. War is Peace. This man will be a bigger danger to our Republic than Bush ever was--a continuation of the Bush Doctrine and fortification of the Patriot Act. WTF? He's doing this with while constituents like you who keep giving him a free pass.

[poapete]

Holy crap, Glen Ford looks like Lo Pan from "Big Trouble in Little China"!!

[chewbaca1989]

Glen Ford is full of shit, Obama could "create" black jobs.

Where's Obama going to pull them out of, poof magic, out of his ass. WTF is this dude talking about.

Government never creates jobs, sure build a highway, a bridge, but what pays for that?

[undrcvrfreek05]

why are there more tea party sympathizers commenting on this video than level-headed individuals? does anyone else find this disparity disconcerting? are they "sent" to videos such as this to dilute the conversation? what's going on here?

[chewbaca1989]

@undrcvrfreek05

It's plain as day that the progressives have the same plan they have had for Black America for Latinos.

Of course many of the discontent (and rightly so) subscribed to Progressive movement. The result was urbanized slums of cheap housing, abortion mills, and liquor stores. Obama will try to get "Comprehensive Emigration Reform" to get 30 million newly insured Latinos to Vote.

[BusterXXXL]

Level-headed people tend to think instead of talk, when in doubt.

When adressing serious problems screaming and bitching is a lot easier than arguing.

[SubmarinerAndroid]

The Right is on fire & making themselves heard everywhere, while liberals are demoralized after a year of betrayal by the President they put all their hopes in.

[RonnieInOC]

It's disconcerting isn't it?

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

They've been targeting TheRealNews's videos.

Are they sent here or is it a word of mouth thing? I don't know and frankly I don't care.

When you see one, step on it.

[afare1]

@MarquisdeBarrabas see what?, whos be going for therealnews??

[pranachimana]

Am I the only one that found this a waste of time? Full of more opinions than actual facts? Please respond respectfully. Thanks.

[BusterXXXL]

No, sounds like more of the usual president-bashing from repug think-tanks.

[xxashyy]

As a blackman myself I take high offense of people like this guy at "the black agenda". Obama is the President of the United States NOT President of the BLACK United States. Black folks need to stop looking to people to take care of them from government. They have to look out for themselves once in a while. Damn!

[chewbaca1989]

@xxashyy

Your right, it's the Progressive agenda, many Black Americans have subscribed to it. I can't blame them, but the last 40 years proves this was a epic FAIL for Black Americans as a whole.

That a majority of Blacks still subscribe to this is sad, and now Obama woos the Latinos. The new Blacks, menial labor, affordable housing, abortion mills, and a destruction of the nuclear family will follow.

[zoticus1]

WRONG

Most latinos are catholic and do not accept a welfare state proping up their lives.

[chewbaca1989]

Well, many Latinos come from very socialized countries.

The Catholic Church is in support of this.

[adeart7]

agreed. definitely agreed. but i think the problem is that obama kind of hinted in his campaign that he would look out for blacks, gays, the poor etc. people in general should not put their hopes on ANY man or government. The gays are just as disappointed as the blacks

[attnMoFo]

The only people gays care about are gays and their issues--oh and Lady Gaga. The gays are an ineffectual electorate.

[attnMoFo]

Wrong. People need to stop looking out for themselves, stop being so god damn self absorbed, and start looking out for our fellow man. This includes our brown brothers and sisters in far away nations, like say Afghanistan and Iraq, who are being killed by the dozens every minute at the end of a barrel of a US made AK47.

[xxashyy]

I disagree. Blacks have been crying and whining about how the government wont take care of them for a while now. This sort of reaction always wasn't the case in the black community. They need to take action and look out for themselves and stop having these lame excuses about why they're community is falling apart. I don't see other races in this country crying like Blacks are. Sorry to be so blunt.

[xxashyy]

Of course the Iraq war was wrong then as it is today. But I'm really not looking at the SKIN COLOR of the innocent dead in Iraq. Just like I didn't care about skin color when NATO was bombing innocent civilians in Kosovo. It's not about color it's about human lives period.

[Rolandzebub]

The Randroids might want to consider their holy abstraction, the "Free" Market, hasn't existed since the rise of the city-state. You can try argue that government expenditures inevitably create a debt trap and economic collapse, but this is a matter of vigorous debate. Libertarian arguments are political, even religious - where have we ever seen a successful libertarian state? Please don't say the USA. The fact is, we live in a military command economy and have since WWII.

[sirellyn]

It's not really up to the government to create jobs. This is a huge fallacy in our time. The government doesn't create productive jobs, they have to tax everyone to get the money to pay someone to do something they think will be productive. This itself is incredible hubris.

How are gov bus drivers useful if there are laws from registering more than 100 electric cars a year?

The only one coming close to knowing what is best for an individual, is that same individual.

[michaelahenderson]

I'm black, and this guy is obviously from an older generation. But his arguments are not backed by most black people and mixed people I know. We believe that black people need to take responsibilty for themselves just like everyone else has to!! I support the President of the U.S.A and his vision. I do not agree with 100% of the Presidents decisions.

[abarzilai664]

You can only pump so much money into the cities but unless you don't allow for innovation it's just throwing good money after bad.

[kmg501]

Well at least Paul-Jay isn't pretending to be anything other than a committed far leftist. The former base of the Republicans revolted on them and started the move back to the real right. Not the phony "right" of the neo-con Republicans who have now been thoroughly exposed and discredited as usurpers.

The real right believe in the constitution, limited government and principles of libertarians. The neo-cons can go to hell for what they did to this country.

[kmg501]

What is this race focus? Is not everyone screwed in this economy? Do groceries cost me any less because of my skin color? No.

What crap is this channel spewing...

[ixamxmsright]

Tares look in their eyes.

[bbburton]

Crap. The gov as savior is about as plausible as Satan championing the word of God. If Ford wants salvation, he should rely on the free market, not gov.

[phfrankh]

Has Pres. Obama , been able to sign any executive orders yet?

[boots920]

The US people are ignorant of their money supply being worthless. The Federal Reserve has been counterfeiting paper currency since 1971.

ALL gold reserves are gone spin it anyway you want USA will implode you can't stop it.

Printing up more money will amplify the debacle.

[cpgone]

obama is not black.His mother was white.

Why does it matter? We are a color blind society,right?obama is a fraud.Just like the Bush's.

Dont buy the fraud of Dems. vs. Repubs.

They are the same. VOTE THE CONSTITUTION.

[NwZ2]

LOL colorblind?

another delusioned fool.

Also: the constitution is a piece of paper; new ideas can come out that are better than it that would entail/usher in a revolution just as justified as the american revolution was against the tyranny of the monarch of britian. =\

otherwise we'd have never left despotism.

pick up a history book.

[sirellyn]

The constitution is the primary agreement or contract that formed the country. It recognizes that times will change and laws may have to, so it can be constitutionally amended.

It is so rare that it is now. Instead people call it irrelevant or dated to push their views.

How would you like a lifetime contract you signed to be changed at the whim of the company you signed it with?

If a contract must be changed all sides must go back to renegotiate.

[adeart7]

RON PAUL 2012? What do you think?

[BusterXXXL]

I dont trust Ron Paul until I heard him debate Cheneyistas on foreign policies.

[greyflcn]

@BusterXXXL

Well Ron Paul certainly has good foreign policy.

And I could support him, if it weren't for his disdain for separation of church and state, matters of science, his desire to repeal all civil rights laws, anti-trust laws, and generally to fight against the US middle class on behalf of the rich.

[lllraverslll]

then again I'm not expert either

[lllraverslll]

sorry he don't even look black he looks more Arabic then black

[1Nyro]

Did anyone notice this guy doesn't look black?

[attnMoFo]

President Uncle O'Tom-a is a disgrace. He frequently denigrates the legacy of MLK by invoking his name in his speeches. Hypocrite is too nice a word to describe this liar in the "White House".

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

It's funny :

When Obama was elected, Ralph Nader was interviewed on Fox noise by Shep Smith. Nader said that Obama could go two ways: the 'Uncle Sam' way or the 'Uncle Tom' way. And Shep called him a racist.

But it turns out Nader's observation was quite pertinent.

[attnMoFo]

Nader 2012