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Top Democrat Says Palin “Disabled”
UPDATE here’s the vid:
Wow. I have a AOL
quickie posted here on this
story from CBS 2 HD (whatever that is)(video at the link):
CBS 2 HD: “You got to be kind to the disabled?”Rangel: “Yes.”
CBS 2 HD: “She’s disabled?”
Rangel:
“There’s no question about it politically. It’s a nightmare to think
that a person’s foreign policy is based on their ability to look at
Russia from where they live.Republicans think Rangel’s comments are insulting as well as shocking.
“Charlie
Rangel’s comments are clearly disgraceful,” Rep. Peter King, R-Long
Island, said. “This is just another liberal Democrat who can’t accept
an independent woman running for president.”King, who is
co-chair of the McCain-Palin campaign in New York, watched Rangel’s
comments with CBS 2 HD. He was particularly upset because Palin’s
4-month-old son, Trig, is disabled. He has Down’s syndrome.“We
should be sensitive to her or any woman who has a child or family
member who has any affliction at all,” King said. “And so to use the
word disabled in the context of a female candidate for vice president
who has a child who is disabled really is wrong. Charlie owes her and
the entire disabled community and apology.”Advocates for the disabled are also upset.
“It
makes me feel as if he’s trying to put her down, trying to say she’s
not good for the presidency or the vice presidency,” said Michael
Imperiale of Disabled In Action Of Metropolitan N.Y.“A disabled president ran this country. He was disabled. His name was Roosevelt.”
A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign also piled on, saying that this kind of rhetoric has no place in politics.
Obama has about 24 hours to call on Rangel to do the full Tom Delay and resign pending resolution of the charges. There were already two or three news hooks on this, the rent controlled office scandal, the income tax on rental property scandal, and the refusal to leave his post on Ways and Means pending investigation.
Now we add to those hooks the easy hook of Rangel basically name calling an anti-corruption crusader. This could blow up big and take down the entire house, as Republicans could easily remind everyone that voting Barack enables and empowers corrupt politicians like Charlie Rangel.
Reactions around the ’sphere…
Moe Lane at Redstate
If the Democrats have a shred of decency they call for his resignation tonight. And if he doesn’t go, melt down the Congressional switchboard until he does.
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