In traditional Democratic Stronghold Harlem, Barrage of Protesters Greets Obama
January 20, 2012
Barack Obama, CC ’83, became the first sitting president to visit Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater Thursday night. But in his second visit to Harlem since taking office, Obama was met by fierce protests.
The fundraising event was closed to press, but 125th Street was overflowing with supporters of the Occupy movement, members of political action committees, and local residents hoping to catch a glimpse of the president. Hundreds of people turned out, but the majority of them were there to protest—a potentially troubling sign for Obama, for whom Harlem should be a stronghold of support.
“I’m protesting Obama’s policies,” Gilbert Rosa said. “He’s just as crooked as anyone. They voted for him because he had pretty rhetoric. At the end of the day, you can have different players. But if you don’t change the game nothing is gonna happen.”
Obama carried 95 percent of the African-American vote in 2008, according to CNN exit polls. But the heavily black community which W. E. B. Du Bois and Hubert Harrison called home hardly seemed well-disposed to Obama Thursday night.
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You’ve all noticed that the democrats are now distancing themselves from the Occupy Movement? Remember how Obama, pelosi and the gang were embracing them, praising them, calling them the 99%–supposedly representing the dissatisfaction of Wall Street corruption by 99% of the American public–even going so far as to comparing them with the Tea Party Movement.
Well, I guess all the violence which has occurred at these encampments have changed their minds. Sorry Democrats…we’re haning this sign around your necks and you own them. We should make this an issue throughout the presidential campaign. Hang that sign around the president and his party.
The only news I want to hear about maobama is that he is packing up his teleprompter and moving back to his beloved native Kenya – ASAP.
These protester clowns will continue to vote Democrat.
Not to worry. Obama will “buy them off” and those not too drugged up to know what they are doing will be dragged to the polls to vote for more of the same from Obama. Do they think that he or Michele care about them? Only when it’s voting time! SUCKERS!
He’ll just dig up some more Illegals or dead people to vote absentee ballots? Acorn probably has them registered already to mail in?
ABO! ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!