Posted on 12/14/2006 12:40:04 PM PST by oblomov
Back then, on the streets of Harlem, he'd take a full swing at his foes. He was a high school dropout, a dead-end kid until he picked himself up and put on that military uniform. In the Korean War he fought like hell, brought back a couple of medals, too.
After he came home, he set himself on a course straight as a ruler: college, law school, assistant U.S. attorney, politics.
Charlie Rangel is 76 now and the dean of New York's congressional delegation. It's been more than 50 years since those days as a street fighter, but this fall's campaigns brought them back in a hurry.
"The American people don't trust Charlie Rangel and his tax-happy Democrat friends because they know Democrats will work overtime to raise their taxes," is how Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it.
President Bush told a Florida crowd that Rangel had said "he couldn't think of one of our tax cuts he would extend."
While the leaves were falling, and the air growing crisp, Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Rangel were being portrayed as a kind of boogeyman and boogeywoman tag team.
Then Vice President Cheney chimed in.
"Charlie doesn't understand how the economy works," Cheney told Fox News Channel a week before the election.
That sent the Harlem in Charlie Rangel into the stratosphere. He wanted to punch someone. He told a reporter for the New York Post that Cheney was "a real son of a bitch."
"I actually worried about him," says Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), referring to Rangel being under siege and his exhaustive campaigning.
Rangel would go home to his wife, Alma, and sigh: Lord have mercy.
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Charlie Rangel is the leading spokesman in the US for national socialism. To him, we are just property of the state.
On the other hand, the terms thug, race baiter and communist come to mind.
Who do they think they're kidding?
Seems all the dems use the Klinton Dictionary.
At what point in his life did he decide to become an idiot Liberal?
Charlie did drop out of High School and go into the Army , and the Army made a man of him. He probably used the GI bill to become a lawyer.
Then the dirty, unappreaciative ,racist piece of slime ,turns around and calls the men in the military a pack of idiots who couldnt find better work.
And he thinks Cheney is an SOB.
Look in the mirror Charlie.
Probably he entered politics with sincere motivations. He felt the sting of injustice (consider that when he entered service in Korea, the armed forces were still segregated, and weren't fully integreated until his service was nearly over), and wanted to "do something".
So he ran for office, running a bit to the left of Adam Clayton Powell for Harlem's Congressional seat, and defeated Powell in the Dem Primary.
Despite all the changes in our society over the past 35 years, and the catastrophic failures of centralized, large-scale social engineering, he could never adapt his thinking to see government as an ambivalent force at best, an evil one at worst. He hung on to the nostrums that got him into power, not learning or adjusting his thinking despite new information.
How else could one remain a liberal in 2006?
Well, its just a "gag" alert!
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