Maxine Waters Complains that Obama Unfairly Singled Out the CBC as…Complainers
- Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:25pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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By most reports and attendee reaction, President Barack Obama’s speech at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) gala Saturday night was a thunderous success with the base. Cynthia Gordy, blogger for the African-American news and commentary website The Root, writes:
“When speaking before black audiences, President Obama tends to be more charismatic in his delivery. He just plays the room differently — gripping and galvanizing, with a preacherlike cadence that can sometimes rise to a holler at points of emphasis.”
Rep. James Clyburn told POLITICO that he was pleasantly surprised to hear Obama confront the dissent among African-Americans and talk frankly about how difficult the road ahead to a second term will be. Rep. John Conyers, who has at times been one of the President’s biggest African-American critics, was satisfied that the President called out his opponents, and said of Obama:
“’He realizes the people who oppose him are beyond compromise or negotiation,’ the congressman said. ‘We’re gonna have to take the case to the people and not just debate it between the Republican House’ and the White House.
‘He hasn’t lost support but he has to stimulate his base. That’s how you do it,’ he said. ‘You don’t stimulate the base by talking inside the beltway politics.’”
Obama‘s divisive and aggressive speech didn’t satisfy everyone, though. CBC member and outspoken critic of the Tea Party Rep. Maxine Waters expressed Monday that she is confused by the President’s call for the CBC to stop complaining.
Waters said on CBS’s “Early Show” Monday that she feels Obama unfairly singled out black leaders by characterizing them as complainers. The particular phrase that Waters did not appreciate was when the President told the crowd to ”Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying,“ and instead ”march with me and press on.”
“I’m not sure who exactly the president was talking to,” said Waters Monday. “We’re certainly not complaining. We support him and we’re protecting that base, because we want people to be enthusiastic about him when that election rolls around.”
That said, Waters made her own observations that Obama has handled other minority groups differently than the CBC, and suggested that perhaps he should tell them to stop complaining.
“I found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the Hispanic Caucus, and certainly they’re pushing him on immigration… he certainly didn’t tell them to stop complaining,” she told CBS. “And he would never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:”
In an interview with CNN later Monday morning, Waters clarified that she did not take Obama’s words as an attack. Rather, Waters thinks Obama did not mean what he said in regards to the “stop grumbling” remarks, and asserted that the CBC thinks the President “just got off script.”
While Waters said that she has not been complaining, she did suggest in August at Detroit‘s Wayne County Community College that members of the CBC don’t pressure Obama enough.
“The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president, too,” CBS reported she went on to say. “We’re supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired. We’re getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he’s prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don‘t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community. We don’t know that.”
Waters has been elected ten times to represent California’s 35th Congressional District, composed of a large part of south-central Los Angeles, and has been consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt members of congress.
(H/T: The Hill)




















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Red Max
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:54pmSurely Maxine, by now even you can see the President for what he really is.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:59pm.
Report Post »I think all she see’s now, is his Whiteside…..”Don’t be a Hater Maxine”………….
NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:09pmDoes it seem like Saggy Maxie complains about Mocha-Bama only HALF of the time?
The only time she doesn‘t complain is when he’s showing his lower half to his nation.
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:52pmSaying that the CBC is a bunch complainers might actually be the first time BHO has told the truth!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:22pmGive-Me Give-Me Give-Me Give-Me Give-Me Give-Me Give-Me Give-Me
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:27pmI think that is correct, he also talked down at them with his loud voice and the “I am god” echo. classic.
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:33pmMaxine Waters complains? Well shut the front door. I’ll tell ya what this socialist will do……Hey Maxine, you gonna help ole BHO get to hell like you promised to help us SOB Tea Partiers?
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:36pmMaxie promotes blacks so in a real world she should dump obama – a half breed and promote Herman Cain a full blood Africian American. If a horse is a horse call it a horse but if it’s a jackass call it a jackass!
Report Post »ACLUHater
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Report Post »CCRYDER
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:42pmYou’ve got that right!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:44pmMaybe the not so bright Maxine will wake up and realize Obama doesn’t care about Black Americans or her. He only wants to be re-elected. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Don’t you just love his Black Preacher speech. What a joke.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:45pmJust who the hell does Barack think that he’s talking to. First, the southern inflection, like talking down to a African (American) audience, and then, accusing them of wining? Surely, he meant to wine and dine them.
Report Post »WeeeDontNeeedNoSteeenkinBadges
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:56pm“Maxine Waters Complains that Obama Unfairly Singled Out the CBC as…Complainers”
… more like …
Report Post »“TheBlaze Readers Complain that Maxine Waters Singled Out as…Ugly!”
I mean … dat be ugly or wat?!
Faith1029
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:01pmFLYOLDGLORY: “Well shut the front door.”
I laughed out loud when I read this. Made my day!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:06pmHe just got “off script”. Exactly! You and Coburn scripted your attacks on the President, just as he scripted his response to you. He got fired up and walked off script a bit and you were stung by that, because you both know you’re both working toward the same goal and you always have been.
Report Post »crazedbanshee
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:09pmHow stupid can a represenative get?
Report Post »States how awful things are this far with Obama as president, but they back him and can’t wait to see what the future holds. What an ignorant moron.
PROV1X
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:17pmthe way POTUS changes the way he talks 2 dif groups of people is a disgrace! it is not befitting of the office!
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:29pmThat’s right Maxine- Get out of your bedroom slippers.
Boo-hoo after being unfair to the Tea Partiers, you‘re getting a taste of unfairness and you just aren’t having it are you.
Report Post »PIG!
Dug2Dark
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:36pmI just wish that The Blaze would quit messing around & expose haxine waters. She doesn’t exist, it’s only that sick bho in drag. Has anyone ever seen them together at the same event???? or urkel for that matter????????????????
Report Post »jesternhell
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:53pmshe is just mad that she has not been invited to drink his beer and eat his food. this is the whining he is talking about max.
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:00pmObama could cut there power, water, sewage, trash collection and kick there dog on the way out and they would still vote for him…..
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:19pmActually Maxine, Obama loves you,cause you are one corrupt lying piece of commie trash,so never fear Maxine,your boy Obama has your big mouth covered,he and Holder will not allow you to stand trial for all the money laundering and scams you have gotton by with thus far,I hear he calls you Mamma Max
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:41pmSo Obama tells a room of a bunch of chocolates STOP COMPLAININ’ and what does Waters do ? complains that he told them to stop complaining.. Sheesh !!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:10pmMaxine in one squeaky wheel that needs to be replaced. She had already been greased TOO MUCH!!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:33pmWe know he hates white folks but, I’m not sure his black part has much respect there either, talks to them like their morons and he is god. Have a little respect for folks O, their good people and who are you? Or Is it the Muslim side?
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:38pmObama must hate half of himself…
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:44pmThat must have been the Cracka‘ half of Obama talkin’ yall!
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:23pmBarry needs to realize he’s not Black enough for Maxine !
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:28pmI can’t stand this woman! Seriously there is not one single thing about her that is even tolerable. She’s like finger nails on a chalkboard, the stink of a skunk, the taste of spoiled milk and one of those spinning pinwheels all rolled into one! PLEASE.. Please…. please….. just go away, I can’t take anymore!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:39pmDO NOT….FOR ONE MINUTE…. think that Obama is pointing fingers at the minorities, especially the blacks. Don’t fall for the headline!
Report Post »If he ever DOES say anything that could be viewed, in the slightest bit, derogatory towards the left, you can assume he is trying to look centrist for the sake of the dumb, gullible Whites who voted for him the first go round.
This guy is the ultimate anti-American and an avowed racist.
Marci
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:43pmClyburn …..”he was pleasantly surprised to hear Obama confront the dissent among African-Americans”–in other words, “we ain’t having none of that!!”
And Maxi needs to quit tripping over her lying lips. Says she is mad one minute than says he didn’t mean it. What I got from Clyburn and others was this sentiment—-they aren’t worried black people will not vote for him again, they believe they will no matter what. That should be a huge insult to blacks. As for Maxi–he doesn’t talk to Hispanics that way because he wants the illegal vote, he doesn’t talk to gays like that because he needs the gay vote. Face it—they think they have blacks in the bag. I remember someone on a show one night saying something to the effect that there are things you ONLY say amongst blacks (like this) but never take them public, never let other races here you saying it. WHAT???? I say, then, to those people, stop your racist ways. :)
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:03pmHis way of telling CBC to shut up, and get the troops in line….
Report Post »Like they’re gonna support anything but a demorap anyway…
Gimme a break.
rangerp
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:23pmThe Professional Black Raucous being told to stop complaing by Obama is like the pot calling the kettle half black.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:26pmThey can raise my taxes enough to fund the ethics committee and put Ms. Waters @zz in jail for corruption. How can America be putting these folks in charge? They are a band of thieves robbing us blind and bankrupting our freedom.
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The-Monk
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:42pmPoor Maxine… I wonder if she’s looked through her slipper collection, found no marching boots but only rhetoric. Seems that Obama’s mouth is bigger than hers! Poor CBC; Obama just gave you your walking papers.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:11pmMaxine Waters is a blight on tha Nation and an embarassment to CaliPORNia. If this person ever had an original thought, it would have died of loneliness. Shame on her “constituents” (read Welfare Recipients) for re-electing her. Maybe if the NEA were not so Union, the voters could actually read the ballot and not just punch “D”.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:17amThey do seem like professional whiners.
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:22amThe problem with the CBC is they see BHO as all black when he is half white and all self serving at their expense. He views Black Americans as a voting block and that is all.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:52pmI have voted since I was 18 & picked the best person to do the job but because of the black caucus & their racim I never pick a black person -I hate racism but when blacks only vote for color it is time for me to make sure there will be a balance of cultures in any government
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:00pmI agree, that’s so sad.
What is sadder still is that it took me 60 years to accept that black racism and minimalism of character is a fact of life in the United States. Hope you’ve got more years left than I do. I don’t intend to waste another minute or a vote.
Thank you for your candor.
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:18pmWhat dae gonna do f Herman gets da nod. Glory be’ mubbe Morgan Freeman otta tro his hat in da ring. Fo Sho! Sum a gun gonna hab big fun. Whut? noboddy to shout race race race race race race at? Whut we ta do Bubba? Go snatch som fourtys an git da welfare check fum granny
Report Post »JDF10487
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:50pmSpeaking Of Grumbling And Complaining …
Don F. Writes The Following Complaint On The East Village Poetry’s Graffiti Wall
Are you having the same problem I am?
They sent my tax return back…AGAIN!
They say it was because of my response to the question, “Number of dependents?”
My reply?
18 million illegal immigrants; 3 million crack heads; 42 million
unemployable lazy bums; the entire cast of the Jerry Springer Show; 2 million people in over 243 prisons; 300,000 leftovers from Katrina; half of Mexico; and hundreds more in the U.S. House, Senate & White House.
Apparently, this wasn’t an acceptable answer…
But it is true!!!
Report Post »cgizzy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:15pmThey don’t like it when you point out the truth.
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:17pmGood one.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:18pmThat has got to be one of the funniest posts that i have read ,Thanks i needed that………………..
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:36pmNow thats funny, and almost impossible to top, thank for sharing, i needed a good laugh!
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:48pmThe IRS did the math and concluded that your answer was race based? Even the most prolific welfare queen can’t apply for more than nine dependents.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:50pmoh boo hoo hoo hoo to poor little maxie – shut the pie hole – obey your commander – you deserve him.
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:49pmMaxine…you love him…take his abuse…we don’t havet o. Quit complainin’ like the Prez. says.
Report Post »Fantastic Four
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:49pmO’bama put the whip to use, so I guess the plantation Col. Allen West was talking about seems to be more fact than fiction, but good thing maxine watters she has her hope and change glasses on to keep seeing the communist utopia.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:53pmIt’s a bitch when reality bumps into actuality!
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:00pmThat would be the Col. Adam West of the Uncle Tom Army?
Does Maxine know how ole Joe Stalin managed to get so much done with so little?
Report Post »geonj
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:48pmi am surprised that maxine didn‘t accuse obama’s speach to the cbc of being racially motivated. after all, his mother was a white woman.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:51pmLouisiana Law stipulates that a person of as little as one-eighth black is classified as black.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:53pmHow about that!! A reverse oreo.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:48pmSo Waters is complaining about Obama complaining about the CBC complaining about blacks complaining about whites complaining about blacks……………………..
Report Post »Waaa!
kraphtsman
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:58pmMaxine-the-moron Waters is the PERFECT posterthing/child for the CBC ! What a “mental giant” she is.
Report Post »And what a flock of whining sheeple BOTH the CBC and their loser Obama truly are.
Lotus503
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:48pmThat’s funny…I thought Maxine made a career out of complaining…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:58pmNow she is complaining that someone noticed she complains … LOL!
TEA!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:58pmNo, Maxine makes a career our of ethics violations.
Her secondary career is accussing others of being racist when they catch her in the ethics violations.
Remember if you don’t have the facts and the law on your side scream and holler racists, homophone anything to distract from the truth.
PMG (and take Maxing with you – Psalm 109:8
Report Post »Akbarjonnie Shaheed
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:47pmBush made him do it.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:55pmWass dat de bad, bad, Bush boy? He make alla da troubles, doan he.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:46pmSay No to BO in 2012
Cain / West, Forget The Rest 2012
No BO in 2012 Vote Herman Cain
Fight BO in 2012 Vote Herman Cain
Defeat BO in 2012Vote Herman Cain
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:18pmSo lemme get this straight: you’re for Herman Cain, right?
Not to worry… so am I.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:03pmThat Herman Cain can’t be a black man, he must be faking it?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:44pmLibs are never satisfied; even among their own. Maxine, as Don Rickels would say…”It’s time for the home.”
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:43pmWhen is this POTUS going to go to trial and jail for here Bank fraud???? If she keeps running hot air out of big mouth…Al bore is going to go after her for global warming!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:52pmSolyndra .. enough said!
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:43pmLiving proof that the brain is not a vital organ.
Report Post »Gary Fishaholic
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:45pmNow that’s funny thnaks
Report Post »dmoore2144
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:43pmWould someone please explain to me how you decide if a person is white or black that are of mixed race. Because Obama is considered black, yet his mother was white. I am not trying to be funny, I really want to know the answer to this. Does anyone know?
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:50pmIf your mother went back to work after your were born, you are white.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:05pmwhen I worked in OB I asked a doctor how he decides the race of a baby -he said he goes by the mother’s race because that is the only thing know for sure where the baby comes from
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:23pmNuffsaid that is FUNNY i dont care who ya are
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:25pmNuffSaid, LOL!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:26pmYeah, and it’s not like the father was around, nor stayed around.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:29pmTo LoveLiberty. Here‘s the part I don’t get.
If what you are saying is true, that OB‘s determine the race of a newborn by looking at the mother when there’s no father in the waiting room how come they made Mocha Bama into a black guy? Is there something about his mother we don’t know? Is it possible that Mocha-Bama‘s mama’s OB was color blind?
Another mystery of Perezidential proportions, I guess.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:05pmMaybe the white lady wasn’t really his mother? Maybe that black woman in Kenya was his real mom and they tried to cover up the real truth. Several different SS numbers, different stories. Possible identity theft crime. Hay Holder. You busy???
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:58pm@NuffSaid.. good one..
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:06pm@NUFFSAID,thank you,lol that was a real knee slapper
Report Post »9111315
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:42pmI think he already had words for the Tea Party.
Report Post »lindathepatriot
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:40pmObama is not in the black communities because they believe his lies and they will vote for him no matter what. Obama is in other communities trying to convince them of his lies. It won’t work. The American people are on to him. 2012 can’t come soon enough.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:39pm“”Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying,“ and instead ”march with me and press on.””
Only Maxine Watters would complain about being called a complainer and rightfully so. All the non conservative black community does is whine and moan and call everyone not black racists, act like animals in the inner cities and on and on and on.
Perhaps if they ever had to work for anything they’d understand Oblamo was using code telling them that. Get off your fat welfare recipient azzes and work towards a goal, at a job, towards politics, do something instead of whining and crying and expecting big Daddy Gman Bama to solve all your freaking self caused problems in 90% of the cases.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:48pmIf anyone will start riots that the “Cloward and Piven” crowds are calling for, are the inner city trash. This administration will take “everyone’s“ side until a group ”bites” and starts the chain reaction. Divide and conquer….
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:37pmThere you go, Maxine, now Obama is telling lies about you. How does it feel from the cheap seats? “Get over it!” – isn‘t that what ya’ll keep telling us?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:50pmWell said GRANDMAOF5 … she is getting what she sowed .. her vile LIES about the TEA Party!
TEA!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:50pmCATB, welcome home, how was your trip north (other than the internet connection)?
Report Post »normbal
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:37pmComplain? That’s all Maxie ever seems to DO is complain. Maybe it’s the tone in her voice. Not as shrill as Shrilary Clnton, but harsh. Maybe it‘s because she’s ugly. She’s so ugly you could press her face in dough and make some ugly cookies. Stop complaining, Maxie, or you’ll go on report on attack watch.com.
Report Post »lindathepatriot
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:42pmObama is not in the black communities because he knows he has their vote, no matter how he treats them. He needs to try to convice others of his lies but it won’t work. The American people are on to him. 2012 can’t come soon enough.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:43pmMacaroons?
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:34pmMaxi-Water– Girl, you’re back! And see you’ve brought your mouth with you! How fortuitous.
You shuffling, drooling, uneducated, slime-commie bi**-You and the all the other rubber johnnie’s of Ku Klux Kaucus can go straight to hell.
Take the Mocha Moron with you.
Report Post »jerrygar
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:34pmWhat’s the Ebonics word for “moron” ? Whatever it is, Maxine shonuf be it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:33pmTruth hurts, witch.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:45pmCalling them a bunch of whiners is about the ONLY truthful thing Obumbler has ever said…..
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:33pmObama knows that he can take Maxine waters and all the black racist like her and bend them over a desk and stick dynamite up their @ss…..and what was left of them would still vote for him.
oldguy49
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:33pmWAKE UP CBC..socialism is not a black or white issue !!!!!!!!!!!!!! it effects everybody
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:33pmThey can’t wake up- they are already dead.
(It’s figurative to the stupids who think that might be a threat)
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