South Carolina Lt. Gov. Blasted for Comments

By: Denise Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com

Black political and civil rights leaders in South Carolina say Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s recent comments comparing poor people to stray animals is an example of how the politician presents different messages to different communities.

 

 

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Blasted for Comments....

Stimulus-Snubbing Govs Don't Care About People, Black or White

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee

Let me see if I have this straight.

The unemployment rate in South Carolina has hit 10.4 percent – the second-highest in the nation. In Mississippi, the unemployment rate is at 9.2 percent. In Alabama, it’s almost 8 percent.

But the governors of these former states of the Old Confederacy, as well as Texas and Louisiana, don’t want to help their jobless citizens fight their misery with the relief contained in President Barack Obama’s stimulus package.

They’d rather conscript them to fight the Civil War instead.

Led by South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, the leaders of these states say they won’t accept the part of the stimulus package that expands unemployment benefits, such as covering part-time workers who lose their jobs. Among other things, they say it would force businesses to have to pay higher taxes once the federal money runs out.

Besides that, they say, they don’t appreciate Obama – outside agitator that he is – telling them that they have to change their laws to get federal money. No matter that for their jobless minions, that money could make the difference between someone living in their home or out of their car.

States’ rights, you know.

Stimulus-Snubbing Govs Don't Care About People, Black or White....

BARACK OBAMA CLAIMS VICTORY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Illinois senator Barack Obama's bid to become the first African American president, just took another step forward.

Saturday, boosted by a significant turnout of black voters, he won the South Carolina primary.


The win sends Obama into the next phase of the campaign with renewed momentum after losing to Clinton in New Hampshire and Nevada in successive weeks.


Black voters reversed what had been a clear preference for Clinton before Obama's victory in Iowa.


Less clear was whether Obama would continue to run strong among white voters, as he did when he won the Iowa caucuses and finished second in the New Hampshire primary earlier this month.


Hillary Clinton came in a distant second while john Edwards trailed in 3rd place.


This is the second win of the nomination battle for Obama, who won the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, but this is his first win in a state with a sizable African-American population.


Women and African Americans, courted heavily by the candidates, turned out in very large numbers to vote in what became a bitter Democratic primary marked by rhetoric about race and gender.


Exit poll results indicate just over half of Democratic primary voters were black this year -- the highest turnout among African-Americans in any Democratic presidential primary at least since 1984, reports ABC News' Gary Langer. Women accounted for six in 10 voters, similar to their 57 percent turnout rate in 2004.


The win Saturday night gives Obama a boost, and momentum before Tuesday's Florida primary and before the much hyped Super Tuesday, Feb 5, in which 20 states will hold primaries.

Tensions Flare Between Obama and Clinton at SC Debate