Posted on 07/15/2011 1:15:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.
"I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”
Earlier in her speech, Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.
"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.
"Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"
Jackson Lee concluded by saying that she hoped someone would step up and say that what appears obvious to her is not in fact true.
"I hope someone will say that what it appears to be is not in fact accurate," said Lee. "But historically it seems to be nothing more."
“Any criticism must be done in hushed whispers because you will be accused of being a racist if you criticize him.”
They are very defensive over Obama but I’ll be damned if I keep my mouth shut for fear of being called a racist. I understand where someone works might keep them from saying much but NOT ME! That is one of the BIG reasons we are in the mess we are now, by keeping our mouths shut. They use that against us too. They can say anything and we ‘must’ bite our tongues. NO FREAKING WAY! ANY LONGER!!!
That is how we ended up with this good for nothing piece of crap who has never worked an honest day in his life. And besides the fact that he is IGNORANT as HELL!
It is amazing that there are people who still vote for this racist moron, but then again birds of a feather do flock together.
“Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?”
What? Is Tip O’neil at it again? Oh...wait...
Glad she said it. This will convince the final 5% who didn’t think this bitch was insane otherwise.
Also look at the stick that goes South. That’s the majority-black Third Ward, with the majority-white neighborhoods to the West and the white/Hispanic neighborhoods to the East not in the district. Note though that they didn’t cut out all of the South East, since the finger that sticks down from the I-10 goes into the black Clinton Park neighborhood.
If not gerrymandered to give blacks an advantage, the 18th would probably be majority white, then Hispanic, then black. Blacks are less than a quarter of the city’s population.
At what point has the liberals played all their cards (race baiting, class warfare, scare old people, etc.)?
It’s not even good entertainment anymore - they should work in creativity in their retarded rhetoric.
It’s because he’s black that they have to tiptoe around the tulips whenever they have to deal with the worthless POS. Otherwise, he would be treated in the same vile, hateful way you slugs treated W, for the eight years of his presidency. But, you just keep playing the race card. That, my poor ignorant woman, is all you really have, now, isn’t it?
It really is the fourth Qtr, and I’m starting to feel a blow out loss for the Democrats, that was the most desperate “hail mary” play i’ve seen. Please, tell me somwhere it’s on video!
Honest Sheila, even if you were White, I would still think of you as a very stupid, sweaty and smelly fat cow.
Your boy OZerO is just an incompetent affirmative action socialist. You and Eric "My People" Holder's people have played that tired ass card one too damn many times. We won't respond to you anymore with any credence.
Listening to Michael right now doing the Sheila Jackson Lee update...
Beleive me, that area is more like Newark or Deeeetroit than Texas. Then again damn little of Houston shouldn’t be a nuke test site.
She definitely is delusional.
This is the kind of incessant black this black that racism that causes people to be racist on both sides.
It is ginning up racism by the real racists that keeps racism alive. It would die if not for things like this.
Sheila....would you be happy if we named a hurricane after him?
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