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Unless I read the wrong "remark", what Reid said amounted to a subjective analysis of the candidiate, and nothing more. It was an accurate, if unflattering, description. In '08, no one could have forseen The Apotheosis. Reid's remarks were within acceptable bounds for those describing mortal men.
Except for that pesky little use of "negro".
I just can't believe what is happening. The party that shrieks to the heavens and demands resignations of ANYONE that utters any words that they consider objectionable is defending someone that has a pattern of this type of talk.
I love these kinds of comments. They were always Republican in every way but name. You saintly Dems just can't swallow the fact that the Democrats tried to sabotage the Civil Rights Act. And what do you do, you blame them for acting like Republicans! What does that mean? Republicans saved the Civil Rights Act, not Democrats.
Actually I blame Dems for acting like Dems, that's how come you folks end up with nincompoops like Harry Reid making the kinds of comments he did. It's just so typical.
Bull****. It was the North against the South. Generally speaking, Northerners voted for it regardless of party, Southerners voted against it regardless of party. It was the Civil War all over again and when the South lost again, they stopped pretending to be Democrats.
And then what? They became Republicans, the party that helped LBJ push through the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Sanitize it any way it makes you feel better, but the Dems have dirty hands when it comes to Civil Rights. Look what welfare has done to black families, as originally discussed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former New York Senator.
Democrats lazy pandering to the black community leads directly to nitwits like Reid making the kinds of comments they do.
I know a lot of you are desperately caught up in the canard that all Republicans are evil racists. IMO you should examine your own party's behavior.
Reid! Is done! Obama gone in 2012! The party is over Dems! lol
Reid says he won't dwell on race-based controversy (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/09/national/w110215S26.DTL - broken link)
Not really. John Kerry could have done a blackface routine and blacks still would have voted for him. Nothing like this can hurt the Democrats or the Republicans in terms of the black vote. Now the latino vote is another story as are the independents.
When Harry Reid complemented Obama when he spoke his description of what Obama is ("light-skinned African-American with no negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one"), it is very clear that Harry Reid has a negative feeling toward all African-Americans with medium or dark colored skin...and likewise he has a negative feeling toward all African-Americans that talk with what he refers to as a [negro] dialect. Reid's comments are without doubt racist toward an entire race of people to the maximum nth degree...because it covers an entire race of people - with the exceptions of those that Reid defines as being acceptable to him. Harry Reid is an old-school racist.
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Reid called Obama a light-skinned African-American 'with no Negro dialect . . .'
