Posted on 02/15/2005 8:39:59 AM PST by missyme
For Rangel LBJ is a great president, because LBJ created the so-called "Great Society" programs that Rangel and his cronies turned into endless cash cows - welfare, WIC, HeadStart, etc.
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IMO, the leftist are all trying to help her by making themselves look more extrem, and trying to make her look "main-stream". Come election time, Rangle will cast his vote for her, and from the pulpits, he and his buddies will preach to vote for her. disgraceful
This is hilarious! The democrats - what a screwed-up bunch of pathetic, lost, sad sack idiots!
Screamin' dean is the party leader; a self-admitted traitor ran for president and got 59 million votes; hollywierd is their staunchest advocate; now rangel calls clintoon a redneck!!! What a perfect formula for Republican success.
You just can't make this $h!t up.....
Charlie, you mean the guy that got us into the Vietnam War?
There were alot of complicating factors. IIRC:
1. Undercover police looking for a suspected armed serial rapist.
2. Late evening.
2. Darken apartment entry vestible.
3. Probably due to his limited English skills, Amadou doesn't understand/react properly to the officer's commands.
4. Gets out his wallet (He probably thought he was being robbed). This act was interpreted by lead officer as going for a weapon.
5. Lead officer fires then slips on steps of vestible, falling backward. Interpreted by other officers as being shot. Sets off a barrage of "defensive" fire.
6. Vestible echos and re-echos officers' own gunfire giving impression that Amadou is continuing to fire back at them.
7. Black race of suspect and and white race of officers. Unpleasant to think about but probably a factor, at least subconsciously. (When incident originally ran, I recall a posting that four BLACK officers would probably have had a roughed up but very much alive suspect to take to the station vice a dead one with 19 holes in him headed for the morgue.
Nineteen hits out of 41 shots.
IIRC, all the officers had semiauto pistols, probably with high capacity magazines. Have never seen individual round count, but I suspect the officer who slipped only fired a very few rounds. Sounds like the rest just emptied the clip. Maybe 2-3 seconds rapid firing with say... 10 seconds for the entire incident.
Never heard if Amadou's mother received any compensation for his death.
I was thinking what would happen if he called just some "hoarse-talking brother" from Harlem...
ROFL, now I've heard it all. Even most lefties I know who are big fans of the welfare state couldn't bring themselves to call LBJ one the best presidents we've ever had.
Interesting. I did think the actual shooting only lasted a very short time - a few seconds.
"when its in the house, its a mouse...when its outside of the house its a RAT" (from SCARY MOVIE 3)
RAT FIGHT!
A later post said 17 (vice 19) hits. Two less holes but just as dead.
Right.
And my point was just that the whole incident was over in a very, very short time. The oft-repeated "41 shots" were not fired by one person, reloading, on a firing range.
Negligent? Grossly negligent? Hey, a jury decided.
I have no doubt that these cops did not go looking to shoot anyone, and did not "enjoy" doing so. Just my opinion.
You're probably right about Rangel trying to help make the Clintons look like what he thinks will help Hillary in the red states (Bubba the Redneck and his missus.) If Rangel says she's just some little lady married to a redneck, how dangerous can she be?
Shouldn't he pronounce his name Ranhell?
A broken clock is right twice a day
Good point.
You can find out info on Steve Malzberg's web site, www.malzbergtalk.com. About his new show, but not about why he left WABC.
I also noticed that the station did not have one of its "ask the program director" hours recently - or maybe I missed it. Maybe they just didn't want to have to deal with it. I don't know.
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