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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/30/2008 8:54:28 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

McBush's campaign now admits that they lied about this. Obama was going to visit the troops with a retired general - no media - but the Pentagon said that since the retired general was part of his campaign, he couldn't go. Link? Curious though, I'm running out of fingers counting how many times the Obama camp has changed the story of why Obama and his "bipartisan" field trip didn't visit the troops...

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/30/2008 8:56:21 PM
From: SeachRE	Respond to of 173976

The Republicans created a lose-lose proposition for Obama. They'd make him look bad either way. Just wait till the November elections. They are ready to steal another one come what may 'cause they're evil.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/31/2008 10:46:06 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

House Tables Resolution to Censure Rangel By Sewell Chan Representative Charles B. Rangel (Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press)The House of Representatives decided on Thursday afternoon to table, by a vote of 254 to 138, a Republican resolution to censure Representative Charles B. Rangel, the powerful New York Democrat who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The resolution accused Mr. Rangel of “dishonoring himself and bringing discredit to the House,” citing a report in The New York Times on July 11 that Mr. Rangel occupied four rent-stabilized apartments in a Harlem building, including one that he used as a campaign office. Mr. Rangel, who was elected to the House in 1970 and is the dean of the New York Congressional delegation, has defended his housing arrangements as legal and fair and, in a forceful address to his colleagues, said he had done nothing wrong, urging lawmakers to reject the censure motion. He said he would welcome a review by the House ethics committee into his housing arrangements and into questions about his use of Congressional stationery to promote a $30 million academic center at the City College of New York, his alma mater. The Washington Post reported on July 15 that Mr. Rangel had used the letterhead to ask foundations and corporations to support the center, which will house his papers. “I’ve never felt more secure that I’ve violated no law and no spirit of the law, but in order to make certain — to make certain — that there is no cloud over my conduct in New York, I ask the ethics committee to look into it,” Mr. Rangel said. Mr. Rangel has said The Times’s article was unfair, a theme he emphasized in his remarks from the House floor. “With not one scintilla of any evidence other than a newspaper story, I think fairness would say for God’s sake, don’t make a politics out of personal reputation. Strike out ‘discredit,’ strike out ‘censure’ and put in there whatever the heck the ethics committee will recommend, I join with them, I ask you to consider that, and I yield back the balance of my time,” he said at the close of his remarks.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/31/2008 10:48:17 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

It accused Mr. Rangel of violating federal law and House rules — including the House gift ban. The resolution argued that the favorable housing agreement amounted to a gift that Mr. Rangel failed to report. It also argued that Mr. Rangel received an illegal campaign contribution because Sylvia Olnick, an owner of the Olnick Organization, Mr. Rangel’s landlord, has given contributions to Mr. Rangel’s campaign and to his political action committee.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/31/2008 10:49:33 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Representative Alcee L. Hastings, Democrat of Florida, moved to table the resolution. The Republicans requested a roll-call vote on the matter. The full text of Mr. Rangel’s statement on the floor of the House, as transcribed by The Times, follows: Thank you Mr. Speaker, and I promise you this will not take anywhere near one hour. I was advised last night and assured this morning that the minority intended to bring up a resolution recommending that I be censured, or that my conduct, as reported in The New York Times, would be declared that I was a discredit to this House. There’s no one in this House that’s more thick-skinned than I am in terms of playing politics, but playing with someone’s reputation, especially someone that has felt so honored to serve in this House — I really think goes a step beyond that. In reading the allegations as to where my campaign headquarters was located or what the rent should have been, I’ve never felt more secure that I’ve violated no law and no spirit of the law, but in order to make certain – to make certain – that there is no cloud over my conduct in New York, I ask the ethics committee to look into it, to investigate to do whatever us necessary to bring this to the House and to bring it to my family and friends. In addition to that the same newspaper reported that I was overly aggressive in trying to raise funds in order to encourage monies to go to a local college that encouraged minorities and others to get involved in public service, and even though there was no request for money, the mere fact that there was a cloud involved in the accusation by the newspaper, even though there have been more newspaper articles correcting it than anything else - referred that too to the ethics committee. And showing that I do want this to be sincerely investigated, I’m asking the minority to allow me to join in with them in this resolution to say this matter should be cleared up. But there’s no need, even for mean-spirited people in the minority, to say that I’m a discredit to the United States Congress, based on a newspaper story. And worse than that, there’s no reason why Republicans or Democrats should do this to each other, based on any newspaper story. And so I don’t know the parliamentary inquiry and as most of you suspected, most of my friends say, ‘Rangel, the less you say, the better. Get out of the headlines and do all of these things.’ And this is what I normally recommend to newer members: ‘Just leave it alone, it’ll go away.’ But my reputation won’t, and I could not really appreciate, if this body was to recommend that, I’m dishonored - that I represent, I represent, bring dishonor to this wonderful House and this wonderful country or that I be censured. And so I make an appeal to the minority, let me join in with you with the request, let me say if there’s any doubts about anything, I would feel better if it went to the ethics committee, I have requested that it go in with the ethics committee, let us join in but with not one scintilla of any evidence other than a newspaper story, I think fairness would say for God’s sake, don’t make a politics out of personal reputation. Strike out ‘discredit,’ strike out censure and put in there whatever the heck the ethics committee will recommend, I join with them, I ask you to consider that, and I yield back the balance of my time.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/31/2008 10:49:51 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

It’s Official: Alma Rangel Backs Obama By Sewell Chan Alma Rangel, the wife of Representative Charles B. Rangel, has endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential bid, Mr. Obama’s campaign announced today. Mr. Rangel, the dean of Harlem politics, is a leading supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Rangel said in a statement released by the Obama campaign: I believe Barack Obama has the ability to unify this country and the character to stand up for what’s right instead of what’s popular. Barack is a man of principle; a man whose faith in the greatness of our nation gives us hope, showing us what’s possible if we work together.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (130212)	7/31/2008 10:52:49 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

In Newark, More Weariness Than Anger at Sentence By PETER APPLEBOME On the sweaty afternoon after the former mayor, Sharpe James, was sentenced to 27 months, there was a recognition of another disappointment in a city too used to them.