The moderate Republican political consultant in D.C. writes: "Bush left us with about $4 trillion in debt. Under Obama, that debt is now $16 trillion. When Obama became President, the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent. Now it’s 8.3 percent. These are facts. So, are Bush and the Republicans responsible for the quadrupling of the national debt or the White House’s inability to lower the unemployment rate?"
Mr. Jackson argues that black Americans voters in particular suffer from cognitive dissonance when it comes to the effects of Obama's policies: "But as an African American, I’m confounded as to why we continue to have blind loyalty to a president that has overseen an economy that is mired in a 15 percent black unemployment rate.How can you vote for this president when there is no public record of him meeting with any prominent black businessmen? How can you vote for Obama after news broke in Polit[i]co this past spring that his campaign was so short on black campaign workers that his field staff had to scramble to find 'qualified blacks' for their get-out the vote effort? How can you vote for Obama when he supports an immigrant guest worker program - that amounts to amnesty in my book - to over one million illegal immigrants? This very well might create competition with low and under-skilled black workers who are unemployed or under-employed. How can you vote for Obama when he has failed to spend as much as he said he would on HIV and AIDS abroad (specifically in Africa) and cut the spending from the federal budget to fight the disease?"
Raynard Jackson: "Democrats Are Talking Loudly, But Saying Nothing At Their Convention. When Is Obama Gonna Start Caring About Black People's Concerns?"
