Rangel: You 'bet your ass' Biden was talking about slavery..

[brotherplanet]

Rangel on Biden’s ‘Chains’ Comment: ‘You Bet Your Life It Was Stupid’



After Vice President Joe Biden infamously told an audience that Mitt Romney is “going to unchain Wall Street,” and concluded they are “going to put y’all back in chains,” Mr. Romney’s campaign cried foul. This was an obvious and unfair allusion to slavery, Mr. Romney’s surrogates argued.

Well, count veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel among Mr. Biden’s critics on the Democratic side of the aisle.

“The Vice President said he’s going to put “y’all in chains,’” Mr. Rangel told The Perez Notes in a recent free-wheeling interview. “Was he talking about slavery? You bet your ass he was. Was he using the vernacular? Yes, he was. Did he think it was cute? Yes, he did. Was it something stupid to say? You bet your life it was stupid.”

“It was something that if a black had said it, we would have been laughing, because we would know deep down, they may be beating the hell out of us but they ain’t thinking about putting us into any chains,” he added.

Republicans have called on Mr. Biden to apologize, but that doesn’t seem likely to happen anytime soon.

“Let’s look at what the vice president said: Speaker Boehner and even Paul Ryan have been traveling this country talking about the need to unshackle the private sector, to unshackle the financial industry,” Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, argued earlier this week. “And the vice president was just taking that metaphor a step further and talking about wanting to put other people in shackles. And the word that he used, chains, is a distraction from the larger argument.”



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[KneelandBobDylan]

People really need to learn the difference between "figuratively", and "literally".

[MotleyMaiden]

Biden is an idiot. No question. It was a stupid thing to say. But he didn't literally mean that we are going to round up all the black people and make them slaves again. Jeez.

I do wish Obama would boot him off the ticket and give Hillary the job though.

[DEATH ROW JOE]

Poll: Romney a Zero Among Black Voters
By Kenneth T. Walsh
August 23, 2012

Democratic strategists are astonished, and extremely pleased, with a little-noticed finding of the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the poll finds, has no support among African Americans.

That's not a typo. The number was zero.

The poll found that 94 percent of African Americans plan to vote for President Obama, and not one of the more than 100 black voters surveyed (among a larger sample of 1,000) said he or she plans to vote for Romney. The remaining 6 percent of African Americans polled said they were undecided or had no opinion.

"That's historic," says Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher, who points out that Republican candidates in recent years have at least garnered a tiny fraction of black voters. In 2008, GOP nominee John McCain won 4 percent of African Americans when he ran against Obama, and in 2004, George W. Bush garnered 11 percent when he ran against Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

Belcher says it goes beyond the fact that Obama is the first African American president. "The minority voter perceives the Republican party as more hostile to minorities than it has been in recent history," he says. Belcher cites the harsh attacks on Obama's health-care law, which many African Americans believe has been beneficial to them, and anti-Obama rhetoric from Tea Party conservatives and others in the GOP.

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Zero—Literally Zero!—Percent of Black Voters Support Mitt Romney

A total of zero percent of African American voters support Mitt Romney, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reveals. Politico refers to this figure as “staggering.” But oh, just wait until the convention, when Romney karaokes two new verses of “Who Let the Dogs Out.” He’s been practicing his human-style smile, too.

After Romney suffered sustained booing at an address to the NAACP in July, the organization’s chair, Roslyn Brock, released the following apologia: “This morning Governor Romney laid out his policy agenda for this nation. Unfortunately, much of his agenda is at odds with what the NAACP stands for—whether the issue is equal access to affordable health care, reforming our education system or the path forward on marriage equality.”

Empirical research conducted on the “Blacks/Afro-Americans for Mitt Romney” Facebook page confirms Romney’s unpopularity within the black community. Many members of the group appear to be white; still more appear to have joined the group with the intention of arguing how disingenuous most of the posted pro-Romney arguments were.

The G.O.P. should really now focus on getting NBC/Wall Street Journal poll participant-I.D. laws on the books.

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Romney Has Zero Percent Support From African Americans In New NBC/WSJ Poll

A new NBC/WSJ poll out Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a four-point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. But as is often the case with polls, some of the more interesting numbers were in the details. For example? Romney snagged zero percent of African-American voters.

Among key demographics, the poll noted that Obama had a lead over Romney. The most stark being when it came to African Americans: 94 percent to 0 percent. Via NBC:

Looking inside the numbers, Obama continues to lead Romney among key parts of his political base, including African Americans (94 percent to 0 percent), Latinos (by a 2-to-1 margin), voters under 35-years-old (52 percent to 41 percent) and women (51 percent to 41 percent).

His lead among those groups isn’t surprising, but hard for the number zero not to catch a person’s attention.

Romney, meanwhile, is ahead with whites (53 percent to 40 percent), rural voters (47 percent to 38 percent) and seniors (49 percent to 41 percent). In a sample of 12 swing states, Obama had a three-point lead, “a narrower edge in these battlegrounds than the eight-point lead the president enjoyed in the June and July NBC/WSJ polls.”

The poll further identified two obstacles Romney has: his image and his Medicare overhaul proposal.

What’s more, Obama bests Romney by 35 points (58 percent to 23 percent) on the question of which candidate is more likeable, and by 22 points (52 percent to 30 percent) on caring about average people.

In addition, a majority of voters (51 percent) view the former Massachusetts governor’s approach to issues as being “out of step” with most Americans’ thinking. By comparison, 54 percent say Obama’s positions are “in the mainstream.”

Obama’s challenge? The economy. More than six in 10 said they think the country’s headed in the wrong direction (“essentially unchanged from last month”) — and 44 percent said Romney has better ideas on how to improve the economy, versus Obama’s 38 percent.

The poll “was conducted of 1,000 registered voters (300 reached by cell phone) from Aug. 16-20, and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.”

[Skate4RnR]

At least Romeny'll get Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele's votes.