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Old 07-18-2011, 06:29 PM   #2
Corryikilelet

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Shelia Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black By Josiah Ryan -07/15/11 03:02 PM ET

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race. "I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” saidackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”

Eiarlier in her speech, Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president. "I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president —only this one, only this one —has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor. "Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"ackson Lee concluded by saying that she hoped someone would step up and say that what appears obvious to her is not in fact true. "I hope someone will say that what it appears to be is not in fact accurate," said Lee. "But historically it seems to be nothing more."
I disagree with her. BUT

I don't think the current GOP accepts the legitimacy of any Democratic president. I recall Bill Clinton being treated as poorly. I mean they impeached the guy over a blowjob.

Yet I can tell you this Jack-in my neighborhood (white Italian South Philly) the usual bigots are particularly worked up about this black president. And some of them are democrats.
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