Posted on 11/07/2013 8:16:00 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
President Obama considered veteran Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel a political hack and had such little regard for Jesse Jackson that he “effectively banned” the civil rights leader from the White House, a new book claims.
The political tome about the 2012 presidential campaign, “Double Down,” says Obama had little patience for “professional left” activists and “vanishingly close to zero” for what a White House aide called “professional blacks.”
“Apart from Georgia Congressman John Lewis and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Obama had nearly as much contempt for the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) as he did for the Tea Party Caucus,” the book says.
“New York’s Charlie Rangel he derided as a hack; Jesse Jackson Sr. was effectively banned from the White House. . .”
Rangel has had an uneasy relationship with Obama. In the 2008, Rangel backed Hillary Clinton over Obama in the Democratic presidential primary.
In 2010, Obama said he hoped that Rangel, a decorated Korean War veteran, would retire “with dignity” as the embattled congressman was fending off ethics charges that later led to a humiliating censure by the House.
A wounded Rangel shot back that Obama “hasn’t been around long enough to determine what my dignity is.”
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” Obama had little patience for “professional left” activists”
He has little patience for himself? I don’t get it...
Leftists love to purge each other. It’s the only entertaining part of their revolutions for the rest of us.
Maybe Jackson should cut his balls off....
I guess Rangel wasnt Commie enough for him..next time Charlie, you gotta get the mustache down and a little Nazi salute and Obama will be your buddy
Yes, I remember that threat........
IOW Charlie Rangel was his role model... before Harry Reid took Obama by his puppet strings and showed him the way to the White House.
Not credible. I don’t believe a SINGLE word of this.
Michelle is in the same GANG as Jessie Jackson.
She grew up in his freaking home.
The idiot finally got something right.
Hey, a broken clock...
Obama doesn’t want to have to compete with these guys....
Exactly. Obama is an ideologue, a purist. The phase that most leftists in politics grow out of in the decade after college, once they realize how much easier it is to accumulate money and power for themselves, rather than toil away at advancing the agenda. In that way, his disdain for these folks is not far from our disdain for the “GOPe”.
Also, understanding this aspect of Obama is still sort of lacking on the right, even though we all know he is a hard left socialist. So many people refer to him like a “typical Chicago politician”, or think he was born of or promoted by that machine. That’s not really the case. Typical Chicago politicians are selfish pragmatic leftists, corrupt for the sake of their own enrichment, not ideological purists, corrupt for the sake of getting the cause. They are the people that Obama looks down on. He certainly allied himself with them somewhat as a stepping stone to power, but he is not of that mold.
Sure, Jesse was a “family friend” of the Robinsons, but Barack and Jesse do hate each other. I can say that with absolute certainty, as I have it on authority directly from people inside Jesse’s camp.
I saw the video - of JJ discussing his true feelings about 0 on a hot mic. Something about nuts.
Bitches will be bitches! They’ll cull the herd every time. This bitch knows!
Very good indeed. The Mahdi most closely reminds me of Robespierre or St Just not someone like former Chicago Mayor Washington.
Rep. Rangel featured below:
What Would You Drive, if the Taxpayers Paid?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/nyregion/01cars.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0
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