Rangel's Jibe at President Draws Support From Democrats

[sabra]

http://www.nysun.com/article/20580

Rangel's Jibe at President Draws Support From Democrats

WASHINGTON - Responding to statements made last week by Rep. Charles Rangel, the Republican National Committee urged Democratic leaders yesterday to denounce the New York congressman's comparison of President Bush to the late Theophilus "Bull" Connor, the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner who came to symbolize Southern racism in the 1960s.

The Republican request for repudiation, however, met with expressions of support for Mr. Rangel's statement, particularly from black Democratic leaders in New York. The Reverend Al Sharpton came out in support of Mr. Rangel's analysis, and another member of the city's congressional delegation, Major Owens, a Democrat of Brooklyn, denounced Mr. Bush as "even more diabolical" than Connor.

At a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus held in Washington last Thursday, Mr. Rangel, a Democrat of Harlem, faulted Mr. Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina. Lambasting the president for being insensitive to blacks affected by the storm, Mr. Rangel said, to an appreciative audience: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."

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Yesterday, Mr. Rangel, reached by phone, elaborated on his comments, saying he made the comparison because Mr. Bush, like Connor, had become a rallying point for America's blacks.

[JohnnyRingo]

1. They're gonna have to move it up to the next level....

Send Coulter and Hannity in to label Sharpton, Hagel, and Owens as unpatriotic traitors who hate America.

Worked well in the months after 9/11.

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[JoFerret]

14. Always worth reminding people

of the "surprise" Hagel victory and his Diebold connection.
Hagel may be a moderate voice. BUT - how did he acquire that voice?

[confludemocrat]

3. As usual, white big-name Demos will remain silent on this. Worthless lot

[Tomee450]

6. True. The only

people you hear discussing civil rights these days are members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other black politicians.

[brentspeak]

7. Why are you focusing on white Democrats?

[FredScuttle]

9. We don't expect white Republicans to give a shit

and the MSM is not going to give any coverage to white Libertarians, Greens, etc. So, we expect ALL members of our party to speak out against racism, not just the black members.

[chalky]

16. Their thunderous SILENCE makes them so conspicuous, it's difficult NOT to

focus on them.

[TankLV]

21. Because they allways seem to be "missing" or "busy" elsewhere.

when it comes time to fish or cut bait - they have a horrible track record of cuttin out to leave the congressional black caucus dangling in the wind.

GOD BLESS THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS!

[natrat]

4. hey but harry reid said frist did nothing wrong

picture idiot with the 2 little black girls a couple days after the flood as he moves them to face the camera---or the food distributio0n point that was dismantled as soon as he left or the bright lights in jackson sq in nola that went out when dim son left-he is a racist pig--think musolini-head on a poll

[MissMarple]

8. What food distribution point? I missed that.

Do you have a link, source? That is positively diabolical.

[NYC]

17. What I recall:

A table was set up with food. After Bush left, it was taken down. This happened in Mississippi.

This may be part of what a German journalist reported. She was horrified by the photo op she saw.

This was on DU, so maybe you can use DU search.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. All the Internet articles on the food distribution thing

seem to come from the same source, but I have not been able to trace it back to the original German source (if it was, in fact, a German reporter who made the comment). Maybe someone who speaks german could help out on that.

However, Senator Landrieu did remark that the work that was supposedly being done on the levee after the breach was stopped within 24 hours after Junior's appearance at a photo-op:

�gBut perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment..."

http://www.fromtheroots.org/story/2005/9/3/19542/97952

So the food distribution story would appear to fit in with the rest of Potemkin Preznit's visit to the area.

[tonekat]

5. Wish the Dems would show a unified front on this

oh wait, that's too much to ask...it'll be the circular firing squad as usual.

[NVMojo]

10. t;his is rich!!!

[mod mom]

11. The CBC speaks for me! nt

[goclark]

13. Speak CBC

they speak for me too.

Rangel has always had a spine and he is a tough guy.

Go Charlie! Call um like you see um ---GW is the Bull of our day.

[The Stranger]

12. PAGING SENATOR DURBIN . . . PAGING DICK . . .

WE NEED ANOTHER APOLOGY, DICK . . .

[ElectroPrincess]

15. Oh just give the republican operatives and the media whores 24 hours

and they will be able to trash Jesus Christ himself? About what? Anything!

These people who spin the news are "black hearted and shameless" propaganda artists.

If you doubt me, then check out that nasty bloated windbag, Tim Russert's CRASS and DISGUSTING "dress down" of a distraught man who's friend had just lost his mother?

"Oh oh oh! Mister Kotter!?!" the freepers exclaim. "But ole' Russert and his a**hole supporters were technically right about the DAY in question.

HAVE YOU NO SHAME SIR? I hope MSNBC tanks and will do everything in my little world to help it get flushed out of this media circus. That good man - Ron Regan will still land on his feet.

There's no doubt that the RIGHT WING Republican Noise Machine will suck in Rangel's statements and spit them out with "vicious lies" in the form of their blessed "talking points" by the end of the week ... at the latest!

These evil bastards (PNAC, AEI, RoveCo) take no prisoners!

[NYC]

18. You have to love Charles Rangel.

:)

[aaronbees]

19. I love Rangel...

and he's dead-on correct with that comparison.