Rangel Calls Palin Disabled

“Foot In Mouth Award”
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Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) has truly reached some of the most prominent citizens of this country.  Inexplicably so! And the Foot In Mouth Award goes to…… 

WCBS TV Channel 2in New York recently spoke with the Manhattan congressman about Governor Sarah Palin.  Text as follows.   See the news clip at You Tube or Brietbart TV.

The question was simple: Why are the Democrats so afraid of Palin and her popularity?

The answer was astonishing.

“You got to be kind to the disabled,” Rangel said.

That’s right. The chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee called Palin disabled — even when CBS 2 HD called him on it.

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.”

Yes!  He really said it.  Thoroughly astounding.  Certain as the words left his lips, there was rightful condemnation.  Being the politician, he had to respond.

Later Friday, Rangel issued a statement saying ”disabled” wasn’t the word he meant to use.

“Governor Palin is an obviously healthy person who in no way fits the description of disabled. I meant to say then, and I am saying now, that she entered the campaign with a disadvantage in the area of foreign policy,” Rangel said in a statement.

“Any inference that my words were in any connected to her son, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome, is a real stretch — and, I would have to think — a way to make political points out of my poor choice of words,” he added.

Tom Blumer at Newsbusters and Bizzy Blog made a salient point about foreign policy experience.

I don’t recall Rangel expressing any concern 16 years ago when his party’s presidential candidate was widely, and correctly, derided for having no foreign policy experience. In fact, a New York Times reporter wrote of Bill Clinton that “his experience in world affairs is limited to breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.”

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amyat No Quarter shocked at the disrespectful Rangel comment.

I swear, it is like respected members of the Democratic Party are taking on the thuggish, ill-mannered behavior of many of Obama’s minions. I expect better from them than this. A lot better.

In New York,

Rep. Peter King, R-Long Island, who is also who is co-chair of the McCain-Palin campaign in New York, said. “This is just another liberal Democrat who can’t accept an independent woman running for president.”

Special emphasis was given to to Palin’s 4-month old son Trig, with 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 said that this kind of rhetoric has no place in politics.

Perhaps Congressman Rangel should pay more attention to his well known, finally  paid tax woes, than to senseless criticism of Governor Sarah Palin.

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See:

• http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/congressman.charles.rangel.2.821541.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvovJ1Q-Ogg
• http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=178473
• http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/09/20/pds-harlem-style-rangel-calls-palin-disabled
• http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/09/20/pds-harlem-style-rangel-calls-palin-disabled/
• http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/20/sorry-charlie/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/nyregion/20rangel.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1222056000&en=e988142cbc6e5775&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
• http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/19/charlie-rangel-on-palin-you-got-to-be-kind-to-the-disabled/