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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 11:42 PM
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Rep. Jackson Lee Suggests Race Is Behind Congressional Debt Crisis War With Obama - VIDEO

VIDEO: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-jackson-lee-suggests-race-behind-congress-fight-with-obama-over-debt-ceiling/

p.s. The VIDEO can be found at the bottom of the text on the link above.


* * * MUST SEE VIDEO * * * MUST SEE VIDEO * * * MUST SEE VIDEO * * * MUST SEE VIDEO * * * MUST SEE VIDEO * * *

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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 11:46 PM
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1. i agree with her. nt
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uberblonde Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 11:56 PM
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2. Actually, she's wrong.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 12:17 AM
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3. They'd be doing the same thing to Hillary. Then it'd be sexism.
They'd be doing the same thing to (heaven forbid) John Edwards. Then it'd be hairism, I guess.
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 12:28 AM
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4. k/r - I agree
Edited on Sat Jul-16-11 12:34 AM by CakeGrrl
There's an extra dynamic to the good ol' boy network having to follow the orders of a black President.

I fully believe it's behind the heightened level of disrespect shown the President - from asshat Wilson heckling the POTUS during the SOTU to the inconsiderate interruptions noted during meetings to Congressional Republicans' knee-jerk willingness to oppose ideas they previously supported when the POTUS states he's in favor.

And outside the Debt Talks, let's not get going on the insinuations that the POTUS is only where he is thanks to his race and assumptions that this is why he gets such a high majority of the black vote (never mind the consistent trend for black voters to overwhelmingly favor Democrats).

There's a reason for all these reports of Republican politicians at the local levels being busted for their racist jokes, e-mails and statements about the POTUS. To assume none of that has permeated the Congress? Not likely.
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rury Donating Member (629 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 12:52 AM
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5. K&R CakeGrrl
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 09:58 PM
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12. Precisely. (nt)
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Scottybeamer70 Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 01:01 AM
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6. I think Rep. Lee is correct.
The "ol white boy club" is crumbling around them and they simply cannot stand it.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 01:07 AM
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7. Ahhh Mediaite...bet the comments
Are sickening and calling Rep Lee a racist
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 02:07 AM
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8. Well, the link to the video in the OP was the longest version of her speech that I could find
when I posted the OP.

Sometimes ya gotta use what ya find.

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Tejas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 06:10 AM
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9. Her 'race-card' drivel almost got her mistook for a Repub
I can see Repubs playing the "blame game", it's typical, but for her to stand there waisting oxygen doing the same exact thing as the Repubs...well, I'm not impressed.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 01:17 AM
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13.  Are you saying that racism
does not exist in America,it is rampant since Obama took office and to deny it it shameless?.
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Tejas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 03:55 PM
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14. We have a winner, next stupid question please.
Sheila, is that you?
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July16th-20th Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 09:08 PM
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10. Of course it is!
Why do you think the GOP and their Teabagging puppets "discovered" the "debt crisis" only after Obama was sworn in?
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-11 09:43 PM
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11. Race? Republicans are doing what they've always done to Democrats...
Drag their feet. Piss and whine about the world ending. Etc.
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 11:22 PM
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15. She is right!!!!
That's why Obama shouldn't give an inch to these Republican assholes!
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