Posted on 05/06/2014 6:48:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Jay Rockefeller unloaded on lawmakers Tuesday, accusing some of blocking efforts to solve urgent problems during Barack Obama’s presidency “because he’s the wrong color.”
Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who will retire at the end of the year, made his comments during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on transportation funding, saying he’s confounded by the “lack of will to keep ourselves from dropping into rivers and rolling over bridges that are no longer there.”
“It’s an American characteristic that you don’t do anything which displeases the voters, because you always have to get reelected here,” he added. “I understand part of it. It has to do with — for some, it’s just we don’t want anything good to happen under this president, because he’s the wrong color.”
Rockefeller’s tirade was sparked by the long-running dilemma over funding the trust fund that covers most of America’s federal transportation spending. Many lawmakers have ruled out a hike to its primary funding mechanism: the tax on gasoline....
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He's a freaking commie red bastard.
/johnny
Being half-white?
These people are so obsessed with race...
By the way, isn’t Clarence Thomas the ‘wrong color’ as well?
Be sympathetic to these fools. It’s the only card they have to play.
Just more of the same old crap ... if you don’t like Obama’s policies you must be a raciest. BS
He is the wrong color.
He’s RED.
I didn’t notice...is he Orange too?
The only people still playing the race card are from the left, and have a vested interest in maintaining the politics of victimization as a springboard to advance their socialist pogroms.
Sorry Jay Jay. Color doesn’t mean Jack to me. It’s his Muslim, Marxist and Communist policies that I have a problem with. And if you were a middle class American, you’d feel the same way, maggot.
Apparently he is not black enough.
Yeah, because (we) were so gentle with Clinton.
LOL - would some of “those”, Senator Rockefeller, be Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Tim Scott, by chance?
Also of the “Wrong Color,” Condi Rice, at least in the Racist opinion of THE SILVER KNIGHTS OF THE KKK at Rutgers University.
Yes! He is the wrong color - commie red.
A##hat spoiled rich “white” guy trying to suckup to the blacks race.
Red with a yellow stripe down his back.
Jay Rockefeller?
Go home and count the silver Jay. They’re all gone.
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