Rep. Maxine Waters to President Obama - Iowans or Blacks

With just hours to go before his jobs plan speech, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is challenging President Obama to make a choice -- Iowans or blacks. Rep. Waters issued the following statement to Politico:

“There are roughly 3 million African Americans out of work today, a number nearly equal to the entire population of Iowa. I would suggest that if the entire population of Iowa, a key state on the electoral map and a place that served as a stop on the president’s jobs bus tour were unemployed, they would be mentioned in the president’s speech and be the beneficiary of targeted public policy,” Waters said in a statement to POLITICO on Thursday.

“So, one question to be answered this evening is, are the unemployed in the African-American community, including almost 45 percent of its youth, as important as the people of Iowa?” Waters asked.

In other words, we are tired of the empty rhetoric and being ignored, Mr. President, is what Maxine Waters is saying. It seems that Obama isn't just falling out of grace with average Americans, his black base is also wavering too. While I don't agree with much of what the Congressional Black Caucus stands for, I will give Maxine Waters credit for challenging President Obama but why wasn't she this vocal during George W. Bush's presidency when the bottom fell out of the bucket?