Rangel on Voter Turnout: "This is Beautiful"

2008_11_rangelcouple.jpgPoliticker NY's Azi Paybarah was on the scene at 134th in Harlem when Representative Charles Rangel and his wife Alma went to vote at 6 a.m. and reports Rangel was thrilled with the line: "This is beautiful. This is exciting.. Who would have thought it? I've never seen anything like this." Rangel, who also said he was confident with Barack Obama's chances, was also overheard saying, "Those Europeans never thought the slaves would be in charge."

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Rangel's comment comes across as unnecessarily defiant.

What nonsense.
What "europeans"? Is that supposed to be some kind of race thing? As a bi-racial (tri-racial, actually) person, I take exception to that kind of baloney.

He's happy for all the wrong reasons. Silly man. Give me one of his spare apartments at the same rate he was paying, please.

That "slave" lives like a king in illegally subsidized homes while this "European" works hard to keep up the rent on a modest apartment in his district. I'm glad I voted against him this morning.

Silly stupid Rangel! The President runs NOTHING! He is simply a puppet to the Corporate ELITE.

Aww, I love racism that gets covered up when it's against white people.

please Rangel is not even the same caliber as Obama. Rangel is an opportunistic corrupted parasite who supported Hillary. So he should shut the hell up

Rangel, the black Jackie Gleason, is a piece of shit tax cheat. Isn't this what the brainwashed dems used to smear Joe the Plumber? Oh that's right, Rangel is a democrat so it's OK if he doesn't pay his taxes, SORRY!

Obama has no lineage with the slaves. His lame ass father came from Kenya Africa, not the south. What is the idiot talking about? Racist jerk. He should keep his head low given what his track record is showing.

That comment very likely threw a number of undecideds over to the McCain column. Nice job, Chuck.

On another note, I highly doubt that Obama a man with lineages close to Brad Pitt, Cheney etc. is from 'Slave lineages."

This is BS on Rangel's part.

Rangel is full of shit, we all know it

Amen to this:

That "slave" lives like a king in illegally subsidized homes while this "European" works hard to keep up the rent on a modest apartment in his district. I'm glad I voted against him this morning.


It's sad that this cheat and liar is going to be reelected handily.

I think he should be named the US ambassador to Somalia and let him see how real black Africans live. Then maybe his street cred will be better.

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