From Fox News:
Standing before an audience of 80,000 rapturous supporters and framed by a pair of giant Greek columns, Barack Obama partly used his 2008 nomination acceptance speech in Denver to showcase a subject he has mostly seen fit, ever since, to avoid. "We are more compassionate," he said back then, "than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty."
But since then, the poverty rate has increased: from 13.1 percent in 2008 to 15.1 percent in the most recent measurements released by the U.S. Census Bureau. And while he is widely seen as an ally of those Democratic constituencies most apt to focus on the plight of the underclass, Obama has actually mentioned the poor less frequently than any of his modern predecessors in the Oval Office.
A new study by Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a non-profit center whose social scientists study issues of concern to Catholics, tabulated all references to an economic class that have appeared in the public papers of each president dating back to John F. Kennedy, the nation's first -- and to date only -- Catholic president.
The study found that Lyndon B. Johnson, architect of the 1960s "War on Poverty," was most apt, among the modern presidents, to mention the poor in some form or fashion: 84 percent of the time he made reference to any economic class. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter came next, with both mentioning the underclass approximately three-quarters of the time. Presidents Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush all rated in the mid-to-high 60s, with Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton not far behind. George Herbert Walker Bush, the study found, was apt to speak about the poor fully half the time.
Only then -- dead last in the Georgetown rankings -- comes Barack Obama, who mentions the nation's least well-off only 26 percent of the time.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/12/obama-avoids-discussing-poverty-study-finds/#ixzz2YuoFCBOY
Readers of this blog know I have been on Obama's ass (not in a gay way, mind you) about his lack of respect and caring for the poor and minorities.
You can see his lack of caring in the way he handles all the shootings and murders in his last hometown of Chicago.
For those 95% of Blacks who supported him, especially those who are poor or middle class, what has he given you and made your life better? They only liked him because he is Black and for no other reason.
And the poor who voted for Obama, well, you are just screwed and this study backs it up. And those who thought Obama supported the poor and minorities, well you had your:
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