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Rangel equates Obama with Cheney.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 6th, 2010 at 05:04 PM  | 

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Guess he’s not counting on the President to campaign for him, then.

Rep. Charles Rangel compared President Obama to former Vice President Dick Cheney Saturday for their shared commitment to the Iraq War, one the Harlem Democrat argues is based on the country’s hunger for oil.

“I challenge anyone to tell me we aren’t there because of the oil,” said Rangel, who kicks off his re-election campaign for a 21st congressional term in Washington Heights Sunday.

“The lack of an honest explanation [for the war] is consistent with Bush and Cheney,” he told the Daily News during an hour-long interview that touched on his ongoing ethics probe, relationship with the President and ability to get work done in Washington.

Via AoSHQ.  Personally, I’m hoping for a nice, nasty, expensive primary here that Charlie Rangel will barely survive.  Michel Faulkner would certainly prefer to face him than somebody with plausible deniability…

Moe Lane

PS: By the way… Barack Obama and Dick Cheney identical?   Not on Obama’s best day, and Cheney’s worst.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Congressman Rangel, I need you to contact me, Sir. Your bus ticket was just sent to my e-mail address by mistake.

    I didn’t mean to read it, but my e-mail system is set for half-screen preview of all non-virus-laden mails.

    I’m not sure you’re going to like your seat assignment. The seat number is “Under – Multiple”.

    I sincerely “hope” you can “change” it.

    Cheers !

  • mikefisk

    Remember how some people were saying that, with the selection of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee in 2008, Democrats were looking for the person on their side that came closest to matching how they saw George W. Bush?

    I can hardly contain my schadenfreude at the thought of some of these same progressive wheeler-dealers coming to the frightening conclusion (this time to them, not just us) that “holy crap, we took the mimic of the wrong Republican!”

    Granted, the analogy really isn’t that good (come on, Barry O. as Cheney?), but anything that keeps the donkeys kicking each other for a change is something I can get behind with a fair amount of glee.

  • creditman

    Have you ever noticed when discredited politicians are going down, they say almost anything. Here’s the example.