You know President Obama thinks he’s in trouble with his liberal base when he lapses into what used to be called “jive talk” before an audience of Congressional Black Caucus members. Dropping his “g’s”, the president admonished the group to “stop complainin’.” “Who’s he talking about?” a puzzled Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asked, keeping the “g.”

Some African Americans have reason to complain. For decades they have given Democrats their votes while receiving little in return. Some have gotten government checks and a welfare system that resembles an addictive drug, dooming generations of poor blacks to a shoddy education, single motherhood, absent fathers, crime and incarceration.