Chicago: Black voters discuss Obama

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Antonio's scissors click and clack across the top of my head. I've decided the Obama cut ($21) wouldn't do anything for me. I am content to have a regular trim in the Hyde Park Hair Salon in Chicago, a virtual shrine to its most famous customer. I'm sitting at the front, opposite the very barber's chair where Obama used to sit: it is now enclosed in a glass case. Above it hangs a large painting of the man himself in the chair.

"He's one of those guys who come in and hang out. When you come in a barber's shop, it's a manly camaraderie sort of thing, and he fits right in. None of that 'Be quiet, he's come in'," says Antonio. He jokes that like all presidents, Obama has gone grey in office.

And he admits that, a year since the president moved into the White House, the economy doesn't feel much better:

"I don't think so. I don't feel the effects, but a lot of my clients are losing their jobs, a lot have moved away, trying to find something else. But I don't put the blame on Obama, I put it on the previous administration. It takes a long while to clean out a closet, and that's what he's doing. By the time we start feeling the effects of President Obama and what he wanted to do, he'll be out of office. It takes a while."

interesting voices.
bbc, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2010/01/chicago_black_voters_discuss_o.html

[FrenchieCat]

1. That's what I love about Black Folks......

Many understand better than most.

"It takes a while"

Meanwhile, many here have held Obama's feet to the fire
till they are almost burned off,
and he is starting to limp.

In essense,
"Liberal Progressives" have been shooting ourselves in the mouth
just because we can!

[jpak]

2. That barber has more insight than many DUers I'm afraid

But I'm not surprised