tack take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. take it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we re going to press on, we ve got work to do. . jon: president obama giving a fiery speech to the cbc, congressional black caucus at the awards dinner last weekend. congresswoman maxine waters, who has been critical of president obama s handling of unemployment had choice words of her own. i found the language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus, and certainly didn t tell them to stop complaining and he would he never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on don t ask
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typically wha
know, other people for the problems that were around. so i just think he s in a difficult situation. people are angry. i think he should be less political. i think, you know, he should be out there, focusing on the duties of being president. and that s always the best path for recovery. you agree with that? he shouldn t point out the fact that he walked into an auto industry that was dead, a banking industry that was sick, a group of american consumers who were scared to death and investors who are burnt? and he shouldn t point out what he walked into? he s done that a lot and people already know that. i think to your point, if he wants to be critical, if he wants to be fighting, he should be fighting his republicans who are being intransigent and keeping him from passing an agenda that would help people now. but when he got out and got a little feisty yesterday, when he made this comment in front of a largely black audience, stop complaining, get out of your slippers, that s a ver
doing this? i grew up with old-fashioned parents. i understand to an extent, who s the boss thing, father knows best stuff from the 50s. when she let her husband tell her who to vote for, for example? where does this end, the husband is the power boss. if i were to say that we re following the bachmann rules, i would have such injury that the best makeup artist at msnbc couldn t handle it. but i m laughing because it hits so close to home. most people watch this show, i m guessing, think this is so strange, old testament 99% of the people are not the people michele bachmann s looking for. she s fallen down to 3% in the latest fox poll nationally. among tea party supporters in iowa, she s now out in front. that s the poll her campaign was circulating. but it s not going to elect her. if you look at, you know, gender differences and politics and who votes, most women who vote
herman cain is the cat over here to made pays zas and got them there on time and fed people. bill: on the subject of get it done attitude we have to talk about congresswoman waters she says: you would never say to the jewish community stop complaining about israel. i don t know who he was talking to because we re certainly not complaining. bill: that was in response of course to president obama going to the cbc and saying. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. we are going to press on. here is what i would say if it s been 45 years since the great society started, are black people in this country any better off for god s sake? bill: a little bit. some of those unemployment figures. bill: it comes down to education. not race. why don t black america leverage the other side a little. bill: you think that black america doesn t use the power it has because they take it for granted look it s either me or one of these republican guys hate you. branded tea party r