Wonkette
- “Love and affection doesn’t have a damn thing to do with counting votes.”
- “We pledged to support her to the end. Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”
- “Unless she has some good reasons — which I can’t think of — I really think we ought to get on with endorsements (of Obama) and dealing with what we have to deal with … so we can move forward.”
- And this old chestnut, which has nothing to do with the candidates, but is funny: “Who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”
Quote number two is my favorite. Go, Chuck!
I’m guessing he also said, “Has she lost her fucking mind?”
Who wants to live in Mississippi? Well, as a good friend who is a functionary in the Senate chambers refers to him, that corn toothed mother fucker, Trent Lott does.
That taken into account, Charlie’s point is well taken.
Apparently, the Clintons are holed up in their manse and super pissed about the super delegates who went all Judasy on them. They have become their supporters: white old and bitter about the black man who took away her job and his opportunities.
Charlie Rangel can math. T-minus a thousand and counting… Also, he has a good point about Mississippi.
Paging Travis Childers… you better say something, dammit!
Also, to answer Charlie’s query: Nearly everyone in Memphis.
scotterl: Trent Lott is another good reason not to live in Mississippi.
Shouldn’t it be love and affection don’t have a damn thing to do with counting the votes?
Or was he just using slanguage for effect?
Morgan Freeman wants to live in Mississippi. ‘Cause he does.
Domestic Goddess: I ain’t got no clue.
The comments on the Mississippi quotation–they’re–so–beautiful. . .
Sample of wonderfulness:
“It’s a good time for it….MS is about the last hold that we have on real America….C’mon down!!!!
This is why my husband and I are going out looking to arm ourselves this weekend. (He told a particullarly ugly Dem at work yesterday that he was going to arm himself cause he sure as hell isn’t praying to Allah. See why I love him????”
loquaciousmusic: I believe he said that about Hillary’s Senate run, yet it is just as apt today. The term “timeless” comes to mind…
Crackheads, gambling addicts, and 40+ Floridian barflys live in Miss Hippah, the largest septic tank in the United States.
Mmmm, gravelly!
No, Chucky is right, love and affection don’t have a… nevermind. He’s still right. Go Chucky go!
Mississippi — Lots of poverty and (at least in the past) a poor public education system. I always had the theory that the whites who ran the state never wanted to spend money on public education, because it might benefit the blacks. Mississippi produced Faulkner, B.B. King, Welty and many other talented people, and parts of the state can be quite lovely. That said, my mother got outta there as soon as she was old enough to leave home.
Listening to Charlie Rangel talk, I couldn’t put my finger on where I had heard that voice before… and then it hit me: Frankie “Five Angels” Pentangeli from The Godfather Part II.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=abwtb1Wst74
TGY: Elitist.
Charlie Rangel is my rep. here in Sunny South Harlem, I have always adored him and even forgave him his love of Hilz.
Domestic Goddess: that’s not slanguage
he’s negating the expression “love and affection” rather than negating each word.
I’ve lived in Mississippi for three years. I have been driving around with an expired license for two of them so that I can live in denial about that sad, sad fact. I’ll be in the corner quietly drinking now.
Domestic Goddess: *sigh* Just pass me the arugula and hemlock salad. What’s good enough for Socrates…
“Arugula. It’s a Ve- ge - ta- ble”
-Steve Martin, My Blue Heaven (Also note Arugula recipes)
You forgot Charlie Rangel on GW Bush:
“Well, I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.”
Apparently, when Rangel was applying to join the U.S. Attorney’s office (in the early 60s, I think), the FBI tried to conduct their standard background check, but all of his neighbors in Harlem were like, “Charlie WHO?” So, he had to go and tell everyone that the next time a bunch of white guys sporting buzz cuts came by asking about him, it was okay to actually answer their questions.
“The Great, Progressive State of Mississippi” - David Cross.
Is it me or does Rangel look like Al Sharpton, better-looking brother.
Whore Diamond in the Rough: How can you tell, I heard they all look the same?