Posted on 07/30/2010 5:21:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday called ethics charges against Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel "very troubling" and said he hopes the longtime lawmaker can end his career with dignity. Several House Democrats went further, flat-out urging the New York congressman to resign.
"He's somebody who's at the end of his career," Obama said in an interview that aired Friday on "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric." "I'm sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens."
Obama, speaking on the issue for the first time, praised the 20-term Rangel for serving his constituents well but called the more than one-dozen tax and disclosure charges against him "very troubling."
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I thought you meant Charles Manson....it’s been so long ago, I kind of forgot...
You’re a piker, I once saw a single paragraph where there, their and they’re were all used incorrectly. It is hard to fathom how a person who gets all three spellings right could use all three in the wrong place. Then someone told me that they should be spelled the same since they are pronounced the same! I am still struggling with that because for some odd reason I have always pronounced all three differently.
Make this idiot the poster boy for the corrupt Rat party and ride it to November.
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