Posted on 09/03/2009 5:51:50 AM PDT by bestintxas
First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York's congressional delegation has played the race card -- and just as the governor did, he's using President Obama to do it, the New York Post reported.
Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday that "bias" and "prejudice" toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.
Those incendiary comments came on the heels of Paterson's controversial comments about race that also mentioned the nation's first black president.
"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday.
Speaking at a health-care forum in Washington Heights, Rangel said that when critics complain that Obama is "trying to interfere" with their lives by pushing for health-care reform, "then you know there's just a misunderstanding, a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."
"We're going to have to move forward notwithstanding that," said Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a chief health-care negotiator. Rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.
"Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. Just do the right thing," he said.
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Aren't you too?
Rangel is correct.
I am deeply prejudiced against communists who are likely plotting to become dictator for life.
Don’t forget the slimy White Lying Liberal Media, who throw the race card like it was their own personal machine gun.
If there was real racism in this country,you’d be doing life
in prison.Chuck is an example of the double standard in
dealing with liberals in Congress.
I’m becoming really MAD, that everytime we disagree with POLICIES on Government that they blame this on COLOR. They have a REAL problem. A real GRAVE problem that has nothing to do with skin color, but people like him that have used elitist color priviledge to park his car in the priviledge section, NOT pay for his tags, and avoid taxes. Can we PLEASE NOT like him?
We’d better get some honest black politicians in there soon. I was not brought up with prejudice, but from what I’ve seen lately, I’m rapidly growing some prejudice. The few good ones are way outnumbered by the Rangels and the Obamas.
Please, let’s see some Thomas Sowells and Walter Williams types in politics. They can actually think.
My bias towards Charlie Rangel is that he is a tax-cheater of the first order, who has the temerity to oversee and apply tax laws to me. He oughta be in jail!
It is all projection. Rangel and his ilk see precisely what they want to see and that is race first, everything else second.
God has given you what now Charlie? Free health-care? That's very decent of him.
Creator of the world. Redeemer of our souls. And now - apparently - health-care provider.
What kind of freakish church do you go to, Rangel?
He Charlie: Shut up and pay your taxes. And hand in your resignation letter while your at it.
It’s not the race, it’s the socialism, you tax cheat.
You nailed it. Rangel is a tax cheat and revelations come out every day about his criminal activities. So it is time to pull the race card to deflect attention as well as to insinuate that the charges against him are based on race.
I can tell you how it happened, Charlie. The Republican candidate was Democrat lite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRzlLa48Wps
Poor Martin Luther King Jr. His work was all a waste. He took a bullet for nothing. Content of character my ass.
Sure. And it was white racists who made Charlie-boy enter into all his crooked deals.
It gets more and more amusing hearing this charge of “racism” coming from these shake-down clowns, always looking for someone else to blame their problems on.
It’s like talking to a welfare recipient: their plight is always someone else’s fault.
Cash for clunkers was an Obama program. I guess all those white folks who took advantage are “enlightened,” eh Cheating Charlie?
Marcus is black..they can’t cry racist over this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA
I feel it is racist to have to submit any answer to the government, employer, school designating my race. When I travel overseas I am not designated by the color of my skin, but by my country of origin. The United States of America. I am an American
The more we focus on race designations the worse the relations between people get.
When we all decide to start calling ourselves American we will move past the divisive nature of race.
I oppose 0bama’s healthcare plan because I am an American and I will live my Constitutional Principals. And I expect my fellow Americans to do the same.
“I can tell you how it happened, Charlie. The Republican candidate was Democrat lite.”
And the scary part is, the people that voted for McCain are telling us our candidate was moderate ENOUGH! If I’m going to lose, I will lose voting for a conservative. If I have to write the name in, so be it...
Another bogus charge of racism, another collective yawn. SSDD.
Notice how the Democrats want to have a quiet, reasoned debate about healthcare.
This is soooooo 60s/70s.
Yes, it has to be wearing thin with many. But the media keeps presenting these comments as if they are plausible reasons (racism) for 0bama’s recent struggles.
You bet! The blacks that are in this administration are not a credit to the blacks that I know.
Commies all!
The happy criminal.
I wonder how Charlie explains that Obama’s approval rating was around 70% in January, but has dropped to around 45%.
Did 25% of Americans suddenly turn “racist” in the past 8 months? Or, did they begin to understand that Obama’s agenda is radical, socialist one?
There it is. Democrats have a God given right not to have to bother counting the votes.
Mais Qui. That is the correct, if not accurate, answer.
When all else fails, Dems go to the “racism” card.
But it explains why you do not hear anymore from the racist Jackson and Sharpton. The likes of Rangel, Patterson and Van Jones have usurped them.
Rangel would do well to SHUT his YAP about now, don’tcha think?
I guess he knows he can CHEAT THE TAX system and GET AWAY with it though...
He’s part of the ruling class, ya know...
Attention Prisoner #48716, Rangel, God hasn't given you anything. You've taken it from his people. Your power source is located as far "south" as one can get.
Ah ha!
Thanks for the thought, I wondered why I haven’t heard much out of those chumps.
Yes, Charlie, most nights I do go to sleep wondering how an unaccomplished, no-account charlatan who is supposedly a charismatic orator, with no record of achievement and a completely buried past, a Chicago party hack who has allied himself with virulent anti-American communists and marxists became POTUS. But none of these concerns has to do with his skin color.
Fine call me a damned racist .... I am SICK of this bullsh*t
It's not his color, it's his politics!
and yours too - along with your crooked hypocrisy.
I’m sure this was the main reason obama was chosen.. if he does something nobody likes or wants just call the critics racists to shut them up.
Yawn. Old playbook Rangel. No more fear of being called a racist especially when it’s a racist doing the name calling. Not to mention that a good number of those against government run health care VOTED FOR the economic idiot known as OBAMA.
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