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Maxine Waters follows in Obama's footsteps...blames Bush
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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 882685" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/09/26/maxine-waters-attacks-obama-speech-telling-cbc-to-stop-complaining-was-not-appropriate-language-were-certainly-not-complaining/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003300">Maxine Waters Attacks Obama: Speech Telling CBC To “Stop Complaining” Was “Not Appropriate” Language, “We’re Certainly Not Complaining”…</span></a></p><p></p><p>Is Maxine Waters <em>seriously</em> claiming the Congressional Black Caucus doesn’t complain? That’s all they do.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64405.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000">(Politico)</span></a> — Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday called President Barack Obama’s comments to black Americans that they should stop complaining “a bit curious” and said she doesn’t “know who he was talking to.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The California Democrat told CBS’s “Early Show” the president would never have addressed other communities like gays or Jews or Hispanics in the way he did at the annual awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday when he told the audience to “stop complaining.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>“I don’t know who he was talking to, because we’re certainly not complaining,”</strong> said Waters, who has been critical of Obama in the past. “We are working. We support him and we are protecting that base because we want people to be enthusiastic about him when that election rolls around.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Obama told the audience at the annual gala to “take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do, CBC.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Waters said she found some of the language Obama used “not appropriate” and said it “surprised me a little bit.”</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“I found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the Hispanic Caucus and certainly they are pushing him on immigration and despite the fact that he’s appointed [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, he has an office for excellence in Hispanic education right in the White House, they’re still pushing him and he certainly didn’t tell them to stop complaining,” she said.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“And he never would say that to the gay and lesbian community who really pushed him on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Or even in a speech to AIPAC, he would never say to the Jewish community ‘stop complaining’ about Israel.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 882685, member: 1246"] [URL='http://weaselzippers.us/2011/09/26/maxine-waters-attacks-obama-speech-telling-cbc-to-stop-complaining-was-not-appropriate-language-were-certainly-not-complaining/'][COLOR=#003300]Maxine Waters Attacks Obama: Speech Telling CBC To “Stop Complaining” Was “Not Appropriate” Language, “We’re Certainly Not Complaining”…[/COLOR][/URL] Is Maxine Waters [I]seriously[/I] claiming the Congressional Black Caucus doesn’t complain? That’s all they do. [INDENT][URL='http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64405.html'][COLOR=#990000](Politico)[/COLOR][/URL] — Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday called President Barack Obama’s comments to black Americans that they should stop complaining “a bit curious” and said she doesn’t “know who he was talking to.” The California Democrat told CBS’s “Early Show” the president would never have addressed other communities like gays or Jews or Hispanics in the way he did at the annual awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday when he told the audience to “stop complaining.” [B]“I don’t know who he was talking to, because we’re certainly not complaining,”[/B] said Waters, who has been critical of Obama in the past. “We are working. We support him and we are protecting that base because we want people to be enthusiastic about him when that election rolls around.” Obama told the audience at the annual gala to “take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do, CBC.” [B]Waters said she found some of the language Obama used “not appropriate” and said it “surprised me a little bit.” [/B] “I found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the Hispanic Caucus and certainly they are pushing him on immigration and despite the fact that he’s appointed [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, he has an office for excellence in Hispanic education right in the White House, they’re still pushing him and he certainly didn’t tell them to stop complaining,” she said. “And he never would say that to the gay and lesbian community who really pushed him on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Or even in a speech to AIPAC, he would never say to the Jewish community ‘stop complaining’ about Israel.” [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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