"Former Massachusetts senator Edward W. Brooke, the 90-year-old Republican, told guests packed in the Rotunda:
“We can’t keep fighting wars. We’ve got hungry people to feed. Homeless and ill-housed people to shelter, and young people to be educated.’’
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After President Obama, Senator John F. Kerry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and others expanded on Brooke’s history-making role as the nation’s first popularly-elected African-American senator, Brooke put aside talk of race and urged the senior lawmakers to address the nation’s most pressing issues....
They didn't hear a word he said!
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FLASHBACK:
"Over beers, a taste of what’s to come; Gates, Crowley vow to meet again" by Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON - A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed that two-thirds of those questioned disapproved of the way the president handled the incident.
Though other factors also dragged down his ratings - including anxiety about the economy, his healthcare overhaul, and the spiraling deficit - the poll indicated that the president’s approval ratings among whites slipped from 53 percent late last week to 46 percent early this week.
The agenda-pushing racial division of the Zionists never stops.
Obama’s remarks touched off a firestorm of criticism that threatened to overshadow his message on healthcare and other key agenda items.... But the media attention was intense. Cable TV news shows ran countdown clocks to the meeting and dispatched live trucks and extra reporters to the White House.
Yeah, I SAW THAT on CNN and it sent me into a PROFANITY-LACED TIRADE!!!
The LEAD STORY at 4 pm, Ze'ev, 'er, Wolf?
The episode was the most significant racial controversy to engulf the nation’s first black president six months into his first term, and it forced the White House to resort to damage control....
Media-driven, of course, as are all things.
After criticizing Crowley on national television, Obama’s public approval ratings quickly slipped....
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It's not just that; it is the ENDLESS STRING of BROKEN and UNKEPT PROMISES that the American people are in NO MOOD FOR after the Bush years!
They were told to be patient then, and they are still being told that. NOTHING has CHANGED and THAT'S WHY the POLLS are HEADING into BUSH COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
