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Obama Can Not Catch A Break From Black Leaders
Posted by Brian
It is now Charles Rangel’sturn to support the Clinton’s and take a shot at Obama as he calls Obama’s remarks “absolutely stupid” when referring to Barack’s comments about Hilary saying that President Lyndon Johnson was more instrumental in Civil Rights than Martin Luther King Jr. Rangel says:
“But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act,” said Rangel. “But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It’s absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law.”
Rangel also implied that Obama’s admission of prior drug use in his autobiography may have had a financial motive: “I assume that the book was not written for political purposes. It was honest….It was a big mistake for him to have done it [used drugs.] For him to be honest enough to write about it, I guess he thought it might sell books.”
What I find most amazing about his comments is that if you heard them live, it did sound as if Hilary implied that Lyndon Johnson was the reason for the Civil Rights Act. There would have not been a bill to sign had the years of pain and suffering led by MLK had not been endured. Signing the bill is the easy part. So a comparison of the two is ridiculous. So I understand supporting your candidate, but none of us should throw rational thinking out the window and change words to make them different than what was said.
Not sure what the goal of Rangel, like Robert Johnson, bringing up Obama’s admitted drug use is. He is not denying it and anyone that believes that they are electing a person to president with no pass history is fooling themselves. No matter what they say or their ads portray, they all have a history. Most of which includes drug use although they do not admit. And if Obama did it to sell books, then one hell of a job because he sold a lot of them!
Who’s next to slam Obama?
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