Rangel “Underestimated” Obama's Strength

[gabeana]

http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4366

The Black Star editorial in part had read: “While announcing his support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run over Barack Obama, Congressman Charles Rangel who represents Harlem said Obama had no chance. Rangel professed admiration for Obama yet claimed the people who enthusiastically backed him were motivated by “Black pride.” Now that Obama has won millions of votes and more states and more delegates than Clinton, we wonder whether Rangel has reassessed his outlook.

Perhaps the millions of white voters that have preferred Obama over Clinton are also motivated by ‘Black pride?’ So much so that Senator Obama even got more white votes than senator Clinton did in Virginia--the first time he beat her in the white vote count in a Southern State. Might these millions of voters –Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asians—not be responding to senator Obama’s message of change, hope, empowerment and unity that resonates with all races, ethnicities, gender and religions?”

The editorial had also stated: “Dinkins and Rangel even travelled to South Carolina to campaign for Clinton. This, even after the Clinton campaign’s attack dogs had employed race baiting tactics, casting Obama as a drug dealer. Her husband Bill Clinton had also referred to Obama’s campaign and opposition to the Iraq war as a ‘fairy tale

very good article
I wonder if Rangel is having second thoughts

[JVS]

1. Rangel is a congressman in Harlem, the USS HRC is not a ship to go down with for him

If he we're to be the kind of superfan that Rendell is, he'd have an unhappy november

[babylonsister]

5. And don't forget, his wife supports Obama. Rock/hard spot? Ha! nt

[cliffordu]

9. That damned couch gets awfully cold this time of year -

I predict the onset of a political conversion.....

:rofl:



:hi:

[AX10]

2. He has the right to support whom he wants to.

[JVS]

3. You guys aren't going to call him Judas if he endorses Obama, are you?

[DJ13]

4. Of course they will

:eyes:

[gabeana]

6. Your right he does

the article states that at the end, but what got me was Rangel said it was a very good editorial,I was just speculating

[babylonsister]

7. So did my 80-year old white dad.

He told me before Iowa that a black man doesn't have a chance (he's also a Clinton supporter, or was).
We no longer talk politics, but I imagine he's rethinking those words.

[samdogmom]

8. He did his best to support the party.

Thanks, Charlie! You can relax now....whew....the pressure's off...we love you just the same. We don't expect Clinton support--just be yourself!

[Window]

10. That's okay Charlie, Hillary underestimated Senator Obama, too.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Yes, Rangel is from the old school...and so he underestimated

someone that came from a whole different time zone. I still like Rangel, no matter what.....he's kind of like Wright in that sense, that as a Black man, he doesn't have faith in this country based on his own experiences. That's why Rangel sold Obama short. Not because of Obama personally, but because of Rangel's own mindset.

And the editorial got this right: "When Rangel set out to become a congressman, and when Dinkins set out to become New York’s first Black mayor, and when Butts stepped to the pulpit at the great Abyssinian, each one of them, we are sure, hoped they offered more than their pigmentation to supporters.”