BLACK DEMOCRATS ARE TOO ANGRY. THAT'S WHY I LEFT THE PARTY

BLACK DEMOCRATS ARE TOO ANGRY. THAT'S WHY I 
LEFT THE PARTY:

YES BLACK VOTERS WILL SUPPORT TRUMP IN NOV 2016.

Sources: Fox News, Youtube

So why do I choose to no longer identify as a registered BLACK Democrat voter?

I explain in detail in the video above.

And yes Trump will convince more than 25% of the BLACK electorate to support him in Nov 2016.

**** Could Trump win over some Black voters?

Contest after contest has shown Hillary Clinton has the overwhelming support of black voters in the 2016 Democratic primary – but up against Donald Trump, the general election might be a different story.

To be sure, nobody expects Trump or any GOP presidential candidate to win the majority of the black vote, which has been with Democrats since the mid-1930s. Clinton has every reason to believe most black voters sticking with her in the primary against Bernie Sanders would do so in a general election as well.

However, analysts suggest that to consider the black vote a monolith for Clinton in November, should she win the nomination, would be a mistake. The Trump jobs message that has attracted so many disaffected white, blue-collar workers could resonate with black voters equally frustrated by chronic unemployment and unfulfilled promises of change – and Trump’s accelerating march toward the GOP nomination has proven his knack for bringing in voters who might not normally pick a Republican.

“If anything, he knows the economy,” Luz Nelson, a beautician and black South Carolina voter, said days before the front-running Clinton won the state Democratic primary with more than 80 percent of the black vote.

“I’m a New Yorker, too,” Nelson continued. “I know where he’s coming from. Nobody controls Donald Trump.”

If he wants to put any significant portion of the black vote in play, Trump would have to do better than past GOP nominees -- if he indeed is his party’s standard-bearer come November.

Then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got just 6 percent in 2012. John McCain got even less, 4 percent, in 2008 against Barack Obama, who became the country’s first black president. Republican President Gerald Ford won the highest percentage of the black vote in modern history -- 16 percent -- but still lost to Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter.

Influential black political commentator Tavis Smiley recently cautioned Democrats that Trump’s appeal could cross not only party but racial lines.

“If Donald Trump is indeed the Republican nominee, it might be a miscalculation for Democrats to take for granted that black voters are a lock for their nominee, even with [Bill Clinton] and Barack Obama campaigning for her,” Smiley wrote in a USA Today op-ed.

“There is no reason to believe that if he is his party’s nominee, Donald Trump wouldn’t make a serious play for black voters. Who knows how many he might skim? In a close election, it might not take much.”

Clinton has since South Carolina in early February continued winning the black vote in large numbers across the South. She did so again in the Mississippi primary Tuesday night, though Sanders’ upset victory in Michigan all but eclipsed that success.

Meanwhile, she has secured a long list of influential African-American endorsements, from actor Morgan Freeman to civil rights icon Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis, while the front-running Trump appears to be struggling to make grassroots connections.

Online videos appear to show Black Lives Matters activists protesting and disrupting recent rallies, as Trump can be heard in the background of one event telling security to “throw them out.”

And critics say he failed during a recent national TV appearance to unequivocally disavow support from former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke – though Trump has since disavowed it, and downplayed the controversy.

Democratic and Republican strategists seem to agree, though, that the billionaire businessman Trump – charisma, bravado and all – has at least captured the interest and curiosity of black voters.

“Up until the KKK thing, he had been doing pretty well,” Douglas Smith, a Democratic strategist and partner at Kent Strategies, said Tuesday. “He oozes this appearance that everybody can fly in a gold jet and have a mansion. I think it’s his signature charisma.”

Smith nevertheless suspects Trump will ultimately come up short because he doesn’t have the “deep well of support” with the black community like Clinton has -- built over the course of roughly 40 years of public service.

And he says Trump lacks the ground game and the kind of party support that would coalesce around Clinton or Sanders.

“You just can’t add water,” Smith said.

Republican strategist Rob Burgess thinks some of Trump’s appeal is indeed in policy, specifically his health care proposals.

“I will not let people die on the streets for lack of health care,” he roared in a debate last month.

However, Burgess thinks other black voters believe Trump will indeed boost the economy for American workers and added, “He can sway some black voters … due to his charisma.”

The Trump campaign declined to comment on efforts to connect with black voters.

However, the campaign has occasionally used two black women – the “Stump for Trump Girls’’ -- as a warmup act on the trail and whose performances have become an Internet sensation.

“If we continue to vote left, we are going to get left,” the duo said at Trump’s military veterans fundraiser last month in Iowa. “And when we look at Donald J. Trump, he has us in mind. He wants a secure boarder. He wants to bring jobs back. He wants to make sure our veterans are taken care of. … And that’s why baby we are going to stump for Donald J. Trump.”

The Rev. Issac Holt, senior pastor at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church, in North Charleston, S.C. – who was visited by both the Clinton and Sanders’ campaigns – thinks the wild card for Trump or any other GOP nominee is the energy they are bringing to the race. But they need to get into the communities.

“What’s missing is the enthusiasm,” he said. “In South Carolina, they didn’t even seek the Black vote, in my opinion.”

Ted Kennedy's Health Care Dream Came True Today, Patrick Leaves Note On His Grave

Patrick Kennedy Leaves Note On Ted's Gravesite: "Dad, The Unfinished Business Is Done"



The political odyssey of health care reform in many ways is the story of Ted Kennedy, and as President Obama signed the historic bill into law Tuesday, Kennedy's gravesite was a place of quiet celebration and poignant reflection.

The late senator's widow, Vicki Reggie Kennedy, spent hours on Sunday at the simple white cross at Arlington National Cemetery marking where her husband was laid to rest only seven months ago. Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.), visited on Monday morning and left a hand-written note that read: "Dad, the unfinished business is done."

And on a dreary Tuesday morning, dozens of school children and health care advocates paused at Kennedy's tombstone to commemorate the man who for decades made overhauling the nation's health-care system his life's mission.

Kennedy's legacy was not lost on anyone who filled the East Room of the White House for Obama's bill-signing ceremony. Members of Congress wore blue "TedStrong" wristbands in his honor and posed for pictures with Patrick Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy, the senator's niece, sat in the front row, with other members of the storied family. Vicki Kennedy walked into the room with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.).

Obama received a thunderous applause when he evoked the ghost of Ted Kennedy near the climax of his speech.

"I remember seeing Ted walk through that door in a summit in this room a year ago, one of his last public appearances, and it was hard for him to make it, but he was confident that we would do the right thing," Obama said.

When Obama sat to sign the bill, Patrick and Vicki Kennedy stood behind him. Finally, Ted Kennedy's dream became the law of the land.






Shame Ted Kennedy Wasn't Around To See Health Care Reform Dream Fulfilled


His clan seemed to suffer another cruel twist of fate as Sen. Edward Kennedy lay buried beside his murdered brothers while the critical fight for what he called the cause of his life raged in the Capitol within view of his grave.

Then, just as the fight came to where it would be won or lost, just when he was needed most, his spirit seemed to swoop down across the Potomac to the White House and the President he had declared to be the true inheritor of his brother John's legacy.

It was not the spirit of John so much as of Edward that spurred Obama to cease seeking to conciliate and again speak with actual passion about what was really at stake in health care reform.

"If you think that somehow it's okay we have millions of hardworking Americans who can't get health care and it's all right, it's acceptable, in the wealthiest nation on Earth that there are children with chronic illnesses that can't get the care that they need - then you should vote 'no' on this bill," he told the Democratic congressional caucus on Saturday.

Otherwise, he told them, they should vote "yes," whatever the political pressures.

"Every once in a while, a moment comes where you have a chance to vindicate all those best hopes that you had about yourself, about this country."

The Kennedy spirit was joined by echoes of Lincoln.

"We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true. We are not bound to succeed, but we are bound to let whatever light we have shine."

Passion became action and even the "pro-life" Democrats who held out for a last-minute deal were really just looking for a way to join in making history.

Some say the bill Obama will sign today did not go far enough, but Kennedy would be cheering it as a big step forward after so many frustrating and disheartening years of going nowhere at all.

"The shame is he wasn't around to see it," Dr. Jack Geiger said yesterday. "Even though he's gone, he deserves a lot of the credit because he was the one who kept this alive for year after year."

Geiger speaks as a doctor who co-founded a community health clinic in a tough part of Boston that first inspired Kennedy to embrace the cause back in 1966. Geiger and his co-founder, Dr. Count Gibson, had been medical workers with the civil rights movement down South.

Kennedy immediately understood when he visited this clinic up North that the principle behind it was that health care is no less a matter of justice.

"He spent most of his time talking to the patients," Geiger recalled. "Yeah, he wanted to understand the concept and the structure, but he was most interested in the effect it had on the people."

Kennedy later spoke of meeting women who otherwise had to ride the bus three hours to the nearest medical facility and then wait in long lines with no place even for the pregnant ones to sit. He said the clinic was "where it all started," where he embarked on "the cause of my life."

Kennedy kept up the fight through his final hours. The struggle was then left without its most passionate and untiring champion, and Geiger was among those who worried all might be lost.

As the decisive moment neared, Obama filled with that spirit as surely as if it swooped down from across the river.

The doctor who helped kindle that passion in Kennedy decades ago now lives in Brooklyn. He has no doubt Kennedy would be a deeply happy warrior today.

"He'd want more, and if he'd been around we would have gotten more, but it's a real start," Geiger said. "At last!"


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Pres. Obama's SCOTUS Pick Sonia Sotomayor Represents The American Dream & Trumps G.O.P.'s Filibuster Plans!

"An inspiring woman who I believe will make a great Justice." President Obama...May 26, 2009.

"I Firmly Believe in the Rule of Law as Foundation of All our Basic Rights!" Sonia Sotomayor....May 26, 2009.

Now that President Obama's has announced his pick for the next vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat Sonia Sotomayor, we can all breath a sigh of relief.

Sonia Sotomayor 54, hopefully soon to be U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not only an excellent choice as it relates to legal matters, but she is also an excellent example of America's diversity and opportunity.

Her personal, very inspiring life story also represents the real American Dream.

Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a South Bronx housing project.

Her father a Factory Worker died when she was 9, thus she raised by a Single Mother who supported Sonia and her younger brother while working as a Nurse.

Sotomayor's brother is now a Physician.

Sonia's seemingly dire circumstances as child could have hindered her destiny or killed her creativity.

However Sonia who is an avid reader, often found herself swept away into another world by reading Nancy Drew mystery books which helped to fuel her interest for a career in law.

She studied hard and excelled in academics, graduating as Valedictorian from Blessed Sacrament and at Cardinal Spellman High School in New York.

Sonia went on to attend Princeton via a scholarship, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and was a co-recipient of the M. Taylor Pyne Prize.

While a student at Yale Law School she became editor of the Yale Law Journal and worked as managing editor of the Yale Studies in World Public Order.

Post law school, Sotomayor was employed as an Assistant D.A. in Manhattan.

She later entered private practice, worked as a Prosecutor, than on to the Judicial bench.

Sotomayor's judicial experience consists of her serving as a Trial Judge, after being appointed in 1992 by former President George H.W. Bush (Republican) and currently a NY Federal Appeals Court Judge. Former president Bill Clinton (Democrat) nominated her in 1998.

She was confirmed by a bi-partisan vote of 67-29.

Sotomayor compared to retiring SCOTUS Justice David Souter, is known to rule and make passionate legal arguments both in favor of the law and from the heart.

If confirmed Sonia Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

For a more in depth look at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's background check out this link over at the Huffington Post.

Looks as if President Obama (himself a Political Genius) has stumped the G.O.P. again. This time with his SCOTUS pick. ha-ha


(President Obama announces his SCOTUS pick, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.)



Sources: Whitehouse.gov, Huffington Post, Politico, Day Life, Reuters