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The battle continues on Capitol Hill over whether to raise the debt ceiling. Both sides of the aisle have their sticking points, but until now, race had not been a factor.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, suggested during a House floor speech Friday that raising the debt ceiling was being held up by members of Congress because President Obama is black.

"Only this president--only this one--only this one has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work," she said. "Only this one. Read between the lines."

"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?" she added.

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Jackson Lee said the debt limit was raised many times under previous Democratic and Republican presidents. "In the minority community that is the question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?"

"I beg this house and I beg this congress to treat him with the dignity that the office deserves."

Towards the end of her speech, Jackson Lee said she hoped that race was not getting in the way of solving the debt crisis.

"I cannot imagine coming this far in my life, that of my children's life and that of others to come to a point where we would use the uniqueness and the difference of this president to treat him differently. If that is not getting in our way, then there's no reason why we can't come together and solve this problem," she said.

this sort of thing just totally drives me apeshit, and does nothing at all for race relations. this is the kind of flagrant race card throwing that completely undermines the plight of black advocacy groups.

please do tell, ms. jackson-lee, how exactly has obama been treated disrespectfully? if anyone has been disrespectful and rude, it's been obama speaking from his bully pulpit.

are you telling me, ms. jackson-lee, that obama is the ONLY president, EVER, to face stiff opposition. i'm sure the democrats would NEVER offer rabid opposition, especially not to obama's predacessor!

with all due respect, ms. jackson-lee, you are a dumb ****. and you can chalk that up to racism too.

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Yeah, that sounds stupid.

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and if a herman cain were elected, i doubt ms. jackson-lee would jump to the same conclusion.

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Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:
and if a herman cain were elected, i doubt ms. jackson-lee would jump to the same conclusion.

Indeed, and if Jon Stewart made a stereotypical voice making fun of Obama Cain probably wouldn't say a thing (despite the fact that unlike Herman Cain, Obama doesn't talk like that).

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i think cain himself was pretty cool about that. it was others in the media raising a fuss.