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    Monday, September 20, 2010

    Obama Warns CBC: "They're trying to turn the clock back"

    The president, often accused of evading racial issues, warned his most loyal constituents that the opposition wants to "turn back the clock."



    President Obama, who has been accused of avoiding racial issues, jumped into the lion's mouth Saturday when he made an unannounced appearance at the Congressional Black Caucus' annual Washington conference and called on his most loyal constituents to resist plans to change the course his administration has set for the nation.

    Without naming the Republican Party, the president warned that his opponents want to "turn back the clock" and reverse many of the changes he has made in the first two years of his administration. "I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, to go back to your workplaces, to go to the churches, and go to the barbershops and go to the beauty shops, and tell them we've got more work to do," Obama said to cheers from a black-tie audience at the Washington Convention Center. "Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now

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