Thread: NY:Rangel: Prejudice Toward Obama Halting HealthCare Reform

Rangel: 'Prejudice' Toward Obama Halting Health Care Reform
Rep. Charles Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a chief health-care negotiator, said that "bias" and "prejudice" toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.

by the New York Post

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Thursday, September 03, 2009
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First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York's congressional delegation has played the race card -- and just as the governor did, he's using President Obama to do it, the New York Post reported.

Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday that "bias" and "prejudice" toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.

Those incendiary comments came on the heels of Paterson's controversial comments about race that also mentioned the nation's first black president.

"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday.

Speaking at a health-care forum in Washington Heights, Rangel said that when critics complain that Obama is "trying to interfere" with their lives by pushing for health-care reform, "then you know there's just a misunderstanding, a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."

"We're going to have to move forward notwithstanding that," said Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a chief health-care negotiator.

Rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.

"Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. Just do the right thing," he said.

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Rangel is a Complete Moron if he thinks he can use RACE BAITING to get his ways. Sorry AZZCLOWN that doesnt work anymore. That card has been played about (our national deficit) too many times...

What a Tool

Just another political CROOK! His tax problems should bring him down but...

Americans of ALL races don't want the government dictating their health care.

One thing about having a Black President is that is SURE brings out the RACISM in most Blacks.
It was amazing to watch the Little Black Professor get out of his mess for being RACIST to the Cop!
Then Obama spews his RACISM against the cop!!!

EVEN fair minded Blacks are calling for a halt to all the racism slurs by blacks.
If you disagree with the President you are a racist?
In Rangels world you are.