Posted on 09/03/2009 6:14:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Here we go again for Congressman Charles Rangel.
A major newspaper is calling for his resignation as chairman of the committee that writes tax laws.
And then there's this: The 79-year-old is under fire for comments he made about race and President Barack Obama.
First, Gov. David Paterson did it. Now, Rep. Rangel is doing it as an ethics probe heats up.
The "it" is playing the race card. Rangel said "bias" and "prejudice" are fueling opposition to health care reform.
Already under fire for a wide range of ethical questions, Rangel played the race card in a health care forum the other night, saying racial bias against President Obama is behind opposition to health care reform.
"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is President of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'how did this happen?'"
Rangel also likened the fight to provide health care for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.
"Why do black people have to bargain for what is theirs? Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? And that is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not court the votes. Just do the right thing," Rangel said.
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bump to await the first “That’s Racist” gif.
Barry’s Post-Racial America Ping!
We need a gif picture of a little white kid that says “Thats Racist”.
Rangel needs to keep his lying, cheating butt out of the limelight. He has absolutely no credibility on anything.
The race card is very shredded, with bent corners. We need a new deck.
If there were really such thing as “Social Justice” the odious Rangel would end his life either homeless or in jail.
If there were really such thing as “Social Justice” the odious Rangel would end his life either homeless or in jail.
I dunno. Ask the Democrats.
No, no, let his political self immolation be as public as possible.
He ought not be talking about anyone else being racist.
Rangel, Holder, Van Jones, Benjamin, William Jefferson, I guess that makes me racist. But then there is Duke Cunningham, Jim Trafficant, Ted Stevens, Tom Daschle, Tim Geitner, I guess that makes me a human race racist. CORRUPT IS CORRUPT!
Yawn. Playing the race card has jumped the shark.
I want to see Rangel, Pelosi, Dodd and the rest of them sporting some pretty silver bracelets ASAP. I would love to see photos of Botox Pelosi sitting in a cell with her cellmate and new girlfriend 400 LB Big Bertha...lol (yes, I’d pay to see that!)
The Race Card just doesn’t work the way it once did. It has been so over-played, that most people now just laugh when its used.
In the past, the “community organizing” Left would racialize their socialist struggle and when they were not successful in the Congress, they orchestrated race violence - violent race based crime and race riots in the cities.
Get ready because it looks like this is where they are headed again.
Well, in their minds I am half a Wonder Bread or what is that nasty term: Cracker, so do you think this will work for me? It might pull me out of a tough jam. Love the artwork, so spot on and off the hook./Just Asking - seoul62......
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