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Bob Menendez plays race card, blames conservatives for scandals
“I have felt the sting of discrimination,” he told approximately 300 worshipers, according to the Bergen Record. ”It has never been easy.”
“Now we face anonymous, faceless, nameless individuals from right-wing sources seeking to destroy a lifetime of work,” Menendez said at Shiloh Baptist Church.
“And their smears are false. I have worked too hard and too long in the vineyards, too long with my hands, for the harvest to be soured.”
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Come on Bob say it, “I did not have sexual relations with that hooker.”
LincolntheHun on February 25, 2013 at 12:14 PM
What a condescending jackhole. Worked with his hands. He’s been in politics his entire life. The only thing his hand has worked is picking the pockets of citizens.
ButterflyDragon on February 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM
What a tiny man!
Schadenfreude on February 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Vineyards? Harvest? He’s as phony as Hillary and as much a pervert as her husband.
txhsmom on February 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM
You want to get Biblical on us? How about, “As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap”. Teenaged hookers. Shameful.
Paul-Cincy on February 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Its not a scandal.
It was a grass-roots financial stimulus effort in the DR.
BobMbx on February 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM
wow just wow.
katiejane on February 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM
How’s it feel menendez? Wonder if you ever did this to a r? Sure has been gobs of d’s doing this to r’s through the years!
BTW bob, I think you are probably involved somehow, just my gut feeling!
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letget on February 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM
That took a lot longer than I figured.
Take that racist scum. Destroying another good man of integrity.
cozmo on February 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM
Anyone hear from his big mouthed daugher recently?
ctmom on February 25, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Yeah, this guy is done. He probably won’t be replaced by anyone better, but just like JJJ, the collapse is fun to watch.
LukeinNE on February 25, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Funny, the 14 year Dominican hooker said the same thing about Menendez.
HumpBot Salvation on February 25, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Was he working in Nancy’s vineyards? Nothing you could do Bob, any juice from her vineyard is always sour.
Ditkaca on February 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM
I think old Bob got the wrong interpretation about working among the prostitutes and tax collectors.
HumpBot Salvation on February 25, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Yeah, we are to ignore corruption in office by black and hispanic DemocRATS becaues expecting Menendez or Jesse Jr to behave ethically in office rather than enrich themselves or trading influence for trips to rape underage girls is RAAAAACIST!
wildcat72 on February 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM
That sting you feel is not discrimination.
Try some anti-biotics.
forest on February 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Impossible.
Menendez is clearly a “white” Hispanic.
That changes everything.
Ben Hur on February 25, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Spending $58,000.00 for two round trips to the DR will do that.
Jabberwock on February 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM
What “sting of discrimination”? Conservatives went after Roman Polanski for diddling an underage girl and he’s as white as a picket fence.
Perhaps he means discimination against pedophiles.
Mr. Arkadin on February 25, 2013 at 1:04 PM
They legalized sodomy. Other deviant behaviors including pedophilia will be legal soon.
wildcat72 on February 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM
You racists, you!
Schadenfreude on February 25, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Are nameless faceless conservatives smearing his good name?
Who knew?
How many in the Shiloh Baptist Church fell for his schtick?
Scrumpy on February 25, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Democrats who play the race card should go directly to jail to await trial and have the time served credited to their sentences.
ExpressoBold on February 25, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Yet, the Church, they criticize.
Jabberwock on February 25, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Conservatives elected one Cuban-American Senator in 2010, another in 2012, and, as a logical next step, our first agenda item in 2013 is bringing down Bob Menendez because we hate Cuban-Americans.
steebo77 on February 25, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Isn’t this the hombre who raped under aged child sex slaves?
VorDaj on February 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Shiloh Baptist Church may have lost its salt & light.
22044 on February 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM
And why shouldn’t he?
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The “vast right wing conspiracy” card is an instant get out of jail free pass in the Obama-Media led idiocracy.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on February 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM
*snerk*. JFKY would know a thing or two about “white Hispanics”…
All kidding aside, this man is a monster.
MelonCollie on February 25, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Why are black churches routinely allowed to have political rallies in their religious proceedings?
This church, and others like it, that allow politicians to come in and give a political speech should lose their tax exemption.
In what world is Menendez calling political opponents racist part of any christian religious experience? How do the reverends, et al of this Church believe it has anything to do with their faith? Unless their faith is liberal politics, of course.
Monkeytoe on February 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Meanwhile, Rubio and Cruz are being attacked daily by the left merely for their political positions. They wont pull the shallow and pathetic race card, but nothing is beneath worms like Menendez.
RadClown on February 25, 2013 at 2:51 PM
I also never understand where the idea comes from that there is any discrimination against Hispanics – who are of the same European decent as Italians, French, German, etc.
Sure, some south American Hispanics can make some kind of 1/2 credible claim if they are descendents from native peoples (Incan, Mayan, Aztex, etc) as at least they don’t necessarily look/sound like every other white guy out there.
But “Hispanics” like Menendez, who claim to be discriminated against, when the guy is whiter than I am, is absurd. You would think that the race warriors at La Raza and the like would not want whiteys like Menendez trespassing on their schtick.
Monkeytoe on February 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Now, now, Senator Bob was just telling those little girls some bedtime stories.
Lincoln Cadillac on February 25, 2013 at 4:34 PM