Posted on 09/19/2008 2:21:06 PM PDT by LdSentinal
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Already under fire for his tax troubles, Manhattan Congressman Charles Rangel really put his foot in his mouth on Friday.
In a CBS 2 HD exclusive interview Rep. Rangel called Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "disabled."
The question was simple. Why are the Democrats so afraid of Palin and her popularity.
The answer was astonishing.
"You got to be kind to the disabled," Rangel said.
That's right. The charman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee called Palin disabled -- even when CBS 2 HD called him on it.
CBS 2 HD: "You got to be kind to the disabled???"
Rangel: "She's disabled."
"There is no question about politically it's a nightmare to think that a person's foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live."
Republicans think Rangel's comments are insulting as well as shocking.
"Charlie Rangel's comments are clearly disgraceful," Rep. Peter King, R-Long Island, said. "This is just another liberal Democrat who can't accept an independent woman running for president."
King, who is co-chair of the McCain-Palin campaign in New York, watched Rangel's comments with CBS 2 HD. He was particularly upset because Palin's 4-month-old son, Trig, is disabled. He has Down's syndrome.
"We should be sensitive to her or any woman who has a child or family member who has any afflciiton at all," King said. "And so to use the word disabled in the conetxt of a female candidate for vice president who has a child who is disabled really is wrong. Charlie owes her and the entire disbale community and appology."
Advocates for the disabled are also upset.
((sot michael imperiale 135028) "It makes me feel as if he's trying to put her down, trying to say she's not good for the presidency or the vice presidency," Michael Imperiale said.
"A disabled president ran this country. He was didabled. His name was Roosevelt."
a spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign also piled on, saying that this kind of rhetoric has no place in politics.
Dems have no conscience, as that photo accurately depicts.
Maybe we should share a little education
by spreading the word.....
Russia visible from Alaska?
At the closest distance between Little Diomede and Big Diomede, the two islands are only about 4 km (2.4 mi) apart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands
So who really is the disabled one?
It sure isn’t Palin which the Press won’t report.
Why hasn’t that disgusting SKANK Pelosi demanded that this race-baiting disgraceful fat PIG be removed from power? Oh yeah, he’s a Dem and he’s of a protected class... Never mind
YA! that’s it! I haven’t seen that in a while...I think that was made by a high school student :)
I don’t even get it. What’s supposedly disabled about her? Being female is a disability?
And uh.. Charlie apparently can’t tell Sarah from Tina. Tina’s joke was “I can see Russia from my house!” in answer to a question about Palin’s foreign policy experience. (I know.)
So Charlie off his meds or what.
LOL!
As bad as Gore talking trash to the “extra chromosome” crowd.
Zell Miller, you are wanted on the field of honor......
Rangel, Jackson, Ludacris(sp?), Diddy, Barack, Michelle......It’s the year of the angry black man!
It is Rangel who is disabled: mentally, emotionally and ethically.
Oh this was Rangel, a leftist Dimwit, worry not......HE WILL GET A PASS, by the MSM.
If not for Hatred the DNC would have nothing to offer to its masses.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Lets see him Rangel out of this.
I hadn’t thought of it that way, but to say she is disabled really is a thumb in the eye of tens of millions of disabled citizens, who are very much successful capable people.
Slamming Palin unfairly
Trashing small town views
Trashing Palin’s kids
Trashing her based on gender
These things are going to hurt Obama’s chances across the board.
When you see twenty to thirty black kids with signs stand up in Obama events with signs, you’ve got a problem on your hands.
Oh well, the DNC’s CBS Division can just pump out more polls to show Obama is up by 125 points. ;-)
What’s Obama’s foreign policy experience? Oh yeah, I forgot: running his campaign.
Tell Charlie to: “take an aerial intercourse on a revolving pastry!!!”
LOL! Very good. I wish I were a Charlie so I could join your League of good Charlies. :)
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