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  • Obama: Time for Rangel to end career "with dignity"

    07/30/2010 5:33:42 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 103 replies · 6+ views
    politico.com ^ | July 30, 2010 | Glenn Thrush
    President Barack Obama has kept mum on the fate of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) for days -- but he tells CBS News that it's time for the embattled 80-year-old former Ways and Means Chairman to end his career "with dignity." "I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served-- his constituents very well. But these-- allegations are very troubling," Obama told Harry Smith in an interview to be aired on the "Early Show." and first broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. "And he'll-- he's somebody who's at the end of his career. Eighty years old....