Posted on 07/15/2011 1:15:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.
"I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”
Earlier in her speech, Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.
"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.
"Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"
Jackson Lee concluded by saying that she hoped someone would step up and say that what appears obvious to her is not in fact true.
"I hope someone will say that what it appears to be is not in fact accurate," said Lee. "But historically it seems to be nothing more."
There was another thread posted about her, but has been pulled. It was about this incident.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Calls Staffer ‘You Stupid Mother-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2682504/posts
In 2004, Democrats delivered a “Chorus Of Boos” during Bush’s State Of The Union when he called for renewal of the Patriot Act., according to the Washington Times.
In 2005, Dems howled, hissed and shouted “No!” when Bush pushed for Social Security reform in the SOU: “Foreshadowing the contentiousness of the coming debate, Democrats broke decorum and booed twice,” according to the National Journal.
At the time, CNN’s Bill Schneider remarked, “It was unusual. I had never heard it at least at that level before. The Democrats clearly were booing, heckling, saying no when the president talked about the crisis in Social Security.”
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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
What must our enemies be thinking?
By JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO
Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584386627599251.html
Sheila Jackson Lee is an black RACIST!
Those who keep voting her back into office are the idiots.
Maher Says Bush ‘Wasn’t Aware of S—t’ After Bashing O’Reilly for Disrespecting Obama
By Noel Sheppard | February 12, 2011
HBO’s Bill Maher on Friday perfectly demonstrated liberal hypocrisy concerning how Democrat and Republican presidents should be treated by the media.
In a lengthy segment on HBO’s “Real Time” about how “disrespectful” Bill O’Reilly was during his Super Bowl interview with Barack Obama, Maher castigated the Fox News host for his “unpatriotic” behavior moments before debasing former President George W. Bush for not being “aware of s—t” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: Let me ask about the President and Bill O’Reilly, because of all the things that got to me this week, that really bothered me. If you saw the interview he did at the Super Bowl, I thought it was very disrespectful, literally unpatriotic. Oh. Show our, show our little thing. We built this, we might as well show it every week. There you go. Reclaiming patriotism. Arianna was talking about it. You know, we talk about getting guns off, you know, everybody having a gun would be patriotic. Giving people healthcare. This is patriotic. And so would this be: not belittling your President. I mean, some of things he said to them…
CORNEL WEST: I agree.
* HOOMAN MAJD: It was worse than that. It was actually bigoted.
* Hooman Majd was born Tehran, Iran in 1957, is an Iranian-American writer based in New York City.
Sep 25, 2008 – When President Ahmadinejad of Iran spoke at the UN this week, his translator was Hooman Majd.
Hooman Majd says Iran is not going to give up nuclear enrichment. Airdate - 09/ 29/08.
Jan 6, 2010 – Hooman Majd, a New York- based writer, is author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ. He advised and interpreted for two Iranian presidents
Yes, SJL and many RATS have very short memories when it comes to disrespecting Republican presidents.
In this case she says Obama is being disrespected, nothing could be further from the truth. No one that I’ve seen has disrespected Obama like RATS disrespected George W. Bush on numerous occasions.
what a crock of caca.
Empty a 50 lb bag of corn into a pig trough and it will keep her from talking for a few minutes....until she’s through eating. On second thought, you would have to listen to her snorting.
You SHEILA are the racist! Why did you ignore this WHITE woman’s question while on your cell phone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L3FnWNkIzU
Profound statement!
George W Bush gave it a shot when he spoke to the NAACP on July 10, 2000. For five years in a row, Bush declined invitations to address the NAACP convention, citing nasty things they said about him. He spoke to them again in 2006. I remember him asking the audience if the black communityh was well served by being represented by just one political party.
I admire GW Bush for taking the race issue head on and boldly going where no other Republicans had gone in a long time.
Her district is inner city Houston. It is predominately inner city poor Blacks and Hispanics (many of which are non-english speaking and illegal or first generation). She is ridiculed daily in the local media. Look up Michael Berry, local talk radio host, he does a daily “what stupid thing has Sheila Jackson Lee done today”...
This... Thing, is an insult to carbon based life forms throughout the Universe.
Go away Sheila before the Universe destroys itself to protect us from your idiocy...
I guess no one ever heard of Mulatto?????
Take a look at ANY municipal government in the country run by black Democrats and you will see a place drowning in incompetence, corruption and crime. It's so much the rule rather than the exception that it's a given, nobody expects anything different.
Obama brought that to the White House. He's the first black guy to do that. He's "special".
Yea yea.....he’s not even black...Mulatto is more like it....Kenyan Mulatto not African American.....
Well said.
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