With Rep. Charles Rangel, the Clintons get in the last word on race.
NY1 has video of Rangel calling Obama’s race remarks “absolutely stupid” in an interview yesterday.
Hours after Barack Obama and the Clintons agreed to a a supposed “racial” truce , Hillary supporter Charles Rangel called Obama “stupid” over his race remarks.
CNN reported:
As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton’s presidential bid called the Illinois senator’s remarks attacking her over recent comments about President Lyndon Johnson and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “absolutely stupid.”
“How race got into this thing is because Obama said ‘race,’” New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, one of the highest-ranking African-Americans in Congress, said in an interview on NY1.
“But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act,” said Rangel. “But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It’s absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law.”
Related… Grand Old Partisan takes a look back at the democrat’s attack on blacks back in 1901.
Hat Tip BG
