Lost amid the anxiety around the bombs in New York & New Jersey as well as the ISIS stabbing at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota was President Obama's speech at the Congressional Black Caucus when he said he would take it as a personal insult if black voters didn't show up for Hillary Clinton:
It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it's guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote!
Obama has a remarkable way of making everything about him and his thin skin. All of which makes me ask when isn't he personally insulted? Obama takes it as an affront when Congressional Republicans don't roll over and play dead for him, when Benjamin Netanyahu reminds of the real history of The Middle East, when police officers do their jobs or when the public is more worried about terrorism than it is about killer bathtubs.
Mind you, Obama isn't speaking of blacks thriving economically but rather speaking of them for voting for him. Of course, he can't brag in that regard as black unemployment is in double digits in many states and black incomes have declined despite an overall reduction in the unemployment rate and rising incomes. Hip hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, while largely praising Obama, recently said that he believed blacks were "a bit shortchanged".
Frankly, where it concerns African-Americans, Obama doesn't have much of a legacy to brag about.
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