Charlie Rangel is an idiot

If I've never mentioned it before, Charlie Rangel is a complete idiot.

Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."

Mr. Rangel's metaphoric linkage of Mr. Bush to the late Theophilus "Bull" Connor - who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating in favor of equal rights - met with wild applause and cheering at a Congressional Black Caucus town hall meeting, part of the organization's 35th Annual Legislative Conference.

Oh by the way, potential Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton was also a speaker at that event and did not repudiate Rangel's racist remarks.