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[patrickt]

"Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Friday likened House Republicans to "terrorists" and Tea Party activists to "white crackers" and segregationists."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315289-rangel-tea-party-activists-are-white-crackers#ixzz2aqUOvwkQ

So, another racist jihadist comes forward. Let's see, a tax cheat and a fraud. An appropriate ally of President Obama. I suppose jihadist can be an appropriate response to terrorist. I wonder if the distinguished gentleman from New York can think of an appropriate response to "white crackers"? Since I'm not a racist, as the distinguished gentleman clearly is, I would skip the word black. So, what other word would be a response? It certainly wouldn't be American, would it? Oh, well, he can think of one.

[Peter1469]

I expect that out of him. He doesn't bother me at all.

[roadmaster]

People want to outlaw "brown bag" but accept this?

[Max Rockatansky]

Rangel is both corrupt and a racist along the lines of Jackson's "hymie town" comment.

Also noted in this thread: http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/15257-Charlie-Rangel-Tea-Party-Is-%E2%80%98Same-Group%E2%80%99-Of-%E2%80%98White-Crackers%E2%80%99-Who-Fought-Civil-Rights

[zelmo1234]

You know that this is really sad. Just a few years ago I can't remember any of these racial problems

Now we seem to be back to judging people in groups by the color of their skin

I think it is time for people of all races to examine the line in Dr. Kings Speech

" I have a dream of the day when every man will not be judged by the color of his skin but the content of his character"

And if we start applying this measure to the people of all races, We can sort the wheat from the chaff, and Racist like Rangel will be come an underwear stain on the pages of history!


It is time that we start becoming color blind! All of us

[Adelaide]

Sounds like the guy is just another jackass.

[Professor Peabody]

Poor Chuckles couldn't find his ass with both hands, a road map, a GPS unit and a tour guide.




TRICKY CHARLIE'S CARIB 'HIDEAWAY'
SHADY FILINGS ON BEACH-VILLA RENTAL INCOME

SABEL VINCENT in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and SUSAN EDELMAN in New York

For 20 years, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has owned a beachfront villa in a sun-drenched Dominican Republic resort, yet has only sporadically declared income on the property in federal filings.

While the villa was rented to paying guests for the past two years, for instance, Rangel reported no income from it in 2006 and 2007, The Post has learned. As a congressman, failure to fully list all income and investments can result in civil penalties or criminal charges.

The powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman, a Democrat, owns "casita" No. 412 on the Caribbean Sea at the Punta Cana Hotel, on the lush eastern tip of the country, where he is affectionately known as "el senador."

His three-bedroom, three-bath villa, which can accommodate three couples, is rented for between $500 in the low season to $1,100 a night in the busiest tourist season and is one of the resort's most popular, managers and staff say.

"You are requesting the best casita on the beach," a reservations manager told a Post reporter posing as a customer.

"We are always booked solid on that one between December 15 and April 15. It is always the first one to go," he said.

But Rangel's financial disclosure forms, which members of Congress must file annually to the clerk of the House of Representatives, checks "none" for income from the property in 2006 and 2007.

"I have not received any rental income," Rangel said when asked about the villa last week. "There wasn't any income."

In some previous years, Rangel has reported earnings from the cottage. For both 2004 and 2005, he listed rental income of $2,500 to $5,000 a year. For 2001, 2002 and 2003, he reported rental income of $5,000 to $15,000 a year. And in 1990, 1991 and 1992, he reported that he earned up to $5,000 per year in rent. For some years, benefactors such as American Airlines paid for Rangel's trip to the resort.

Rangel refused to answer further questions about his investment, saying, "I think that's a private matter."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08312008/news/worldnews/tricky_charlies_carib_hideaway_126882.htm?page=1

http://i44.tinypic.com/ff1u0w.jpg

I guess Ole Chuckles never heard of Turbo Tax has he?

[Mainecoons]

Polling is showing what we can see and feel. Since Barack Obama got elected, racial conflict has increased markedly. Now, no doubt, that is Bush's fault just as it is that somehow, most of the jobs that have been created under Obama's policies, are part time. Forget all those charts that show sudden inflection points downward in the quality of jobs under Obama.

Barack Obama/Barry Soetoro/Who?: The McJobs President!

[Chris]

Sorry I didn't see this thread before I posted mine.

Charlie is an out and out racists. And he's wrong, the struggle for civil rights wasn't against the Tea Party but against Democrats.