The Left: 1st black president is RACIST

 

 

 

Glenn Beck said it, and got berated.  Now, Barry’s leftist comrades are turning on him for recent comments he made out on the campaign trail:

Facing an uproar from President Obama’s most loyal base of supporters, the White House on Thursday rejected claims that Mr. Obama stereotyped blacks when he told them to “take off your bedroom slippers” and work for his re-election.

“I have heard him make similar comments to all sorts of different groups,” said presidential press secretary Jay Carney, who fielded nearly a dozen questions from the White House press corps about Mr. Obama’s comments and his relationship with black supporters. “He’s certainly used vivid language, similarly vivid language, before a variety of audiences.”

But a search of Mr. Obama’s speeches dating back to mid-May shows that he has used the quip about bedroom slippers only one other time — on Sept. 14 at North Carolina State University, while promoting his jobs bill. About 8 percent of students at N.C. State are black.

The president stirred up the issue when he urged the predominantly black audience at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundationawards dinner in Washington on Saturday to stop criticizing him and get to work on his re-election.

“I expect all of you to march with me and press on,” Mr. Obama said, using the cadence of a preacher. “Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.”

Some prominent blacks have criticized the president’s language as racially tinged. PBS commentator Tavis Smiley, a frequent critic of Mr. Obama, has said the president would never use the same imagery with a white audience or other ethnic groups.

“How does he get away with saying this to black folk, when he would never form his lips to ever say that to any other constituency?” Mr. Smiley said.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat and chairman of the CBC, has said he received numerous calls from CBC members and Obamasupporters who were offended by the president’s comments.

And Crystal Wright, a conservative blogger in Washington who is black, said Mr. Obama’s language stereotyped blacks.

“The implications here that ALL Blacks are waiting for a government handout; All Blacks wear bedroom slippers and/or are sitting on the couch not working is despicable and demonstrates how out of touch the nation’s first BLACK president really is,” she wrote in a blog post. “Why would the nation’s first Black president make such an incendiary statement telling blacks to ‘take off their bedroom slippers,’ which conjures up a stereotypical image of Blacks being lazy. Can you imagineObama saying the same thing to an all-white crowd in Iowa?”

Poor, poor Barry.  He can’t win.  (Now, or in November 2012.)