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Rangel Criticizes Obama For ‘Dignity’ Remark

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Rep. Charles Rangel (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rep. Charles Rangel (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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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  • me

    Shouldn’t A. C. Powell Jr. be the grandfather of A.C. Powell IV ?

  • jschm

    They should both resign. Rangel for corruption. Obama for violating hos oath to support the law of the US, namely immigration laws.

  • Zochin

    Will Obama leave with dignity?

  • Harpotoo

    They are both pieces of excrement and there is no dignity in being that.

  • Bill

    “Delaying tax payments on income” — Interesting way to describe a failure to report income. Yet another case of main stream media distortion in an attempt to favor those holding more liberal perspectives.

  • Donald Duck

    Regardless of who wins in Rangel’s district, a crook will be representing those people in D.C.

  • RufusVonDufus

    Pretty funny stuff here. Maybe Rangel could get a gig on SNL! He will win in a landslide further making a mockery of Congress. Jeez, I believe Blagojevich is also a Dem. Would only be right!

  • Roberta

    Talk about being racist…..Where are Jackson and Sharpton???? They should be demanding BHO’s resignation!!!!!

  • Calvin

    2 words:

    Term Limits

  • jpc

    Sadly, but neither of them have any Dignity!!

  • Godot

    This is just a wild guess, but I can see him being re-elected no matter the circumstances. I say this based on my years in DC through the various Marion Barry reincarnations.

  • firstpoppa

    “Dignity” Charles? Age is catching up with you. You’ve forgotten that you sold it for 30 pieces of silver.

  • Brian Cloud

    I’ve always been a Republican although I considered Clinton but Mr. Rangel is right. Rangel is a crook but a good crook, he stood up for his constituency that elected him. Obumma is a lightweight. Give me a balls to the wall Dem like Truman or Johnson rather than the POTUS we have now, apologizing for things he he wasn’t even born to take note of he claims his country did.

  • bubba

    Has anyone checked Rangel’s freezer?

  • Davole

    “Dignity” doesn’t register with Charlie Rangel – that’s why it took him 3 weeks to search for the definition of that foreign concept, and to respond to Barack Obama’s meekly disguised insinuation.

  • Kurtiss

    >>>The former House Ways and Means Committee chairman was accused of … delaying tax payments<<< Euphemism for "didn't pay his taxes until he got caught." And this isn't media spin–this is actually what he was accused of. This is just corrupt Democrats and gutless Republicans refusing to hold their colleagues accountable.

  • Karen

    Term limits may seem like an answer, but that has to assume that those who might replace the ‘current crop’ would be guaranteed to be any better! I don’t think so.

  • steve

    So were prosecuting Roger Clemmons, (a baseball entertainer), for lying to Congress, but Rangle and Maxine Waters are okay??Hmmmmm we really have our priorities in order.

  • T.D. Sereta

    Alderman Fred Davis from 1970s Good Times……what a joke this man is.

  • craig

    Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

  • noelekal

    A case of the pot calling the kettle black.

  • Billy D. Kidd

    Hey, Charlie. Obama dislikes old people.

  • mcs

    Criticize Obama? Charlie is clearly a raaaaaaaaacist!

  • kf

    I am a huge proponent of term limits in all Federal government positions, but there IS ANOTHER WAY!!! The people of Manhattan can VOTE HIM OUT!
    So yes, we can set up laws to do the thinking for us but our founding fathers wisely set this government up for us to do it ourselves.

  • laconic conservative

    Old Good Time Charlie has always been good at being indignant!

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