Friday, July 15, 2011

Did you know that I stubbed my toe because the president is black and I am a racist?


WASHINGTON - MARCH 30:  Rep. Sheila Jackson Le...

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,” said Jackson 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?”

Earlier in her speech, Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.

Hmmm.

“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?”

Gee Sheila, I’m not sure.

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2 comments:

Alan W. Wright said...

Leave it to Sheila to play the race card every chance she gets. As long as her district includes every ghetto in Houston, it will always be difficult to vote her out of office!

And I won't even go into how she treats her staffers...

Anonymous said...

Sharia Jackson Lee.