Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach | Religion Dispatches

Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach | Religion Dispatches:

President Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus this weekend was a combination of traditional black preaching and civil rights rhetoric, designed to stir up his beleaguered African American base. Not everyone was impressed, however. Maxine Waters, congresswoman from California and a member of the CBC, said "she found the president’s language a bit curious. She says that Obama didn't address Hispanics in such a blunt manner and would never use that language in a speech to a gathering of gays or Jews."

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