Lloyd Grove: Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?

"'There was an expectation, particularly among African Americans, that the first African-American president would at least be vocal about feeling their pain,' Blow said last week on MSNBC’s Hardball. “I think that has not been the case. The president has given a couple of speeches and he has been very heavy on the stick and not very heavy with the carrot… Just in the inability for him to commiserate with that group of people, people feel a bit deflated… He said he’s not going to focus separately on African-American issues at all. That let a lot of people down.'"

Brother X (sigh) says: "It's Bush's fault! (Who else will I blame?)"