Rangel Criticizes Obama For ‘Dignity’ Remark

August 24, 2010 10:20 AM

Rep. Charles Rangel (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) – Rep. Charles Rangel has shot back at President Obama’s recent comment that he “end his career with dignity.”

Speaking at a candidate’s forum in Harlem Monday night, Rangel said the president hasn’t “been around long enough to determine what my dignity is.”

The embattled 80-year-old congressman said it was more likely that he would protect Obama’s dignity over the next two years.

Obama’s remark was made three weeks ago.

The former House Ways and Means Committee chairman was accused of using official stationary to raise money for a college center bearing his name; delaying tax payments on income on a rental unit in the Dominican Republic; failing to file his financial disclosure statements on time; and operating four rent-stabilized apartments in New York, including one he used as a campaign office.

The Democrat has vowed to fight the charges and is refusing to resign. He says he is focusing on his re-election to his district in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood.

Rangel is seeking his 20th term. The state’s primary is Sept. 14.

His rivals include Adam Clayton Powell IV. In 1970, Rangel defeated his father, the legendary Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Rangel insisted his problems wouldn’t affect the outcome of other races.

“I refuse to believe that I’m either that important or infamous that my problems are going to interfere with any good person getting elected,” Rangel said recently, adding that he was sure his Democratic colleagues were serving their constituents well and that most were safely on their way to re-election.

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Rangel Criticizes Obama For Dignity Remark

mikeb

Obama is clearly a racist for saying anything bad about this man of color.
b. wade

Notice how dirty dems NEVER resign, but vow to fight to selfishly keep their job no matter how much it hurts their own party? Contrast that to the repubs; when even a hint of a scandal, they resign in the best interest of the party and government.

afgvet

Rising in response, I offer:
Vitter (wearing diapers while visiting hookers, running for re-election).
Craig (bathroom solicitation of undercover cop, served out term).
McCain (savings-and-loan money, still in Senate, running for re-election).

Which is not to condemn Republicans, but to say this a politician problem, not a Democrat problem

sam jackson

lol
http://moodyeyeview.com/2010/08/24/charlie-rangel-may-be-elgible-for-dignity-czar/ Charlie Rangel May Be Elgible For Dignity Czar « Moody Eye View

[...] House Ways and Means Committee chairman was accused of using official stationary to raise money for a [...]
JIMBOLINI

oh oh I hope da bruthas don’t get into a gansta drive by!!!!!!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
guest

that was a great shot at Barry
Yukiko

Until the present congress took office I was not in favor of term limits. These people have treated our country as though it were their personal piggy bank. This has to stop. If term limits are the only way to stop them then so be it.

Daymar

So true! We had Byrd and Thruman that were so old they were in a coma!

Jenny Craig

Swamp trash.
Don

Thanks, Rep. Rangel, for once again pointing out that President Obama is the least experienced person in any room he steps into.
Dennis

Reminds me of that old joke where a young bull and an old bull are standing on top of a ridge, overlooking a herd of cattle. The young bull says “lets run down and get ourselves a lady.” The old bull retorts “lets walk down and get ‘em all.”
Shawn

If Barry hasn’t been around long enough to know what Rangle’s “dignity” is, then how in the world can the Democrats claim he’s been around long enough to know what “health care,” “financial reform,” “stimulus,” “cap and trade,” yadda yadda yadda is??? Obviously, the truth is Barry is way over his head, can only think like someone who has spent his entire life in academia and never in the real world, has never dealt with real world issues and generated real world solutions, and has never had to take responsibility for anything he has ever said or done. I reckon that is the ideal candidate from the party of Hollywood.
gobnait

What did Rangel do with Adam Clayton Powell III?

bob@yourmama.com

lol..I was thinking the same thing!
Itchy

LOL, I thought the same thing

AceCool

what chumps
Guest

“Rangel is seeking his 20th term. The state’s primary is Sept. 14″

Enough of these career politicians, we need term limits.

adheeb

If this guy actually runs again it will be interesting to see if his constituency re=elects him. If so, what does that say about his constituency?

cinmatzo

two words…. Dan Rostenkowski….. returned to Congress by the “good people” of Chicago for years. Then he went to prison.
meesha4

Of COURSE they’ll re-elect him. He hasn’t done a DAMNED thing for Harlem, except bring in graft and corruption, but he’s the “right” color and the “right” party. The only difference between Rangel and the Candy Man is that at least the Candy Man actually delivers what he promises. Rangel’s constituents will live in the gutter and still believe he’ll make their lives better.

LARRY

TERM LIMITS……GET THESE CREEEEEPS OUT OF MY LIFE….
Shovelhead

Seeking 20th term? Is that what our founders envisioned? May the candidate with the most moneywin?
CTHILLARY’s Minion

Aren’t you GLAD you settled for the Lesser Evil?

j.smith

did we???????????????????????????????????????????

scories

What a fitting end to a 19 term congressman. Check out the related tags above: “Rangel” “Congressman” “Corruption”
Revolt Now

Revolt
Tim

Nobody’s been around long enough to know what his dignity is. He lost it long before anyone in power was around.
chris

finally, something Rangel and I can agree on

John Q Dallas

I agree! I’ll take a career polititian anyday over a rank amateur like Barry.

shane

How many politicians, after 20 terms in office, really know what dignity is?

Chip

Zero

Taliesin

The arrogance of these people knows no bounds. God, give us term limits!

shane

Its not up to God but ourselves, electing men and women of character who will NOT line their own pockets.

Norman Hall

Yeah, good luck on that one!

Chip

amen
Homer Simpson

We have term limits. They are called elections.

Marge Simpson

No, those are infinite term extenders
Glammer

Unfortunately, incumbents have a huge advantage over challengers. For example, Obama is basically campaigning all the time on the taxpayers nickle.
Ellen

Clever!
Rangel Is Scum

Not when elections are bought by the incumbent with all the cash.
http://drav1212.wordpress.com drav1212

Not when there is Jerrymandering involved.

stephen

There are term limits. They’re called elections.
Michael Laney

Total and absolute corruption in Washington DC………we are becoming a 3rd world country in that regard!
Bob Deibel

It’s sad to say but the people he represents will probably re-elect this elitist who should have been botted long ago.

Various_Authors

He’s a weasel, a textbook politician.

Wil

It is just utterly disgusting that he was not put in prison years ago.

This is an embarassing tragedy, and in insult to all Americans. What has the U.S. become, a third-world backwater shithole?
Glammer

That applies to both politicians named in the title of the article.
yusa1929

Charles Rangel for President: M. L. K., Charles Rangle and I, a Jersey Republican were all born into the world at a time when freight trains had passengers that were called Hobos, automobiles had cranks on the front, Newark International Airport was mostly a muskrat farm, water fountains were black and white and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president for life. Most houses had ice delivered and you had to walk a mile for a telephone. WWII we all started saving tin cans and buying war savings stamps to put into a book that traded for a $25.00 war bond that cost $17.50. Charles walked the walk and fought in “my” war. He ran for Congress and won 20 times. Charles helped make the sausage and buried the bodies as they say. After surviving 40 years in Congress bucking the white tide he is being thrown under the bus by this administration. I say make him President. He is just what the Democrats need, experience.
Vlad the Impaler

Elections only allow the sheeple to exchange new rats for old rats. Its time
to torch the barn and kill all the rats – Rhetorically speaking, of course.

astralweeks

And they turn on each other like a pack of hyenas fighting over a bloated carcass.

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