Posted on 01/09/2010 10:30:22 AM PST by LdSentinal
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.
"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words," said Reid in a statement. "I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments."
The Senate Majority Leader was officially neutral in the primary fight between Obama and then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). Reid's remarks about Obama were revealed in "Game Change", a book detailing the 2008 race penned by Time's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann.
Reid's apology comes on the same day that a new poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review Journal showed him facing an uphill fight for re-election in 2010. Reid trailed former state Republican party chairwoman Sue Lowden by a 50 percent to 40 percent margin and was behind businessman Danny Tarkanian (R) 49 percent to 41 percent.
Only one in three voters viewed Reid favorably while 52 percent saw him in an unfavorable light in the poll.
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Did he tender his resignation too?
No doubt, this was unexpected will be “under-reported”....
Did he forget he’s “clean?”
When is Harry’s crucifixion scheduled? Anybody else who says anything about blacks (whether true or not) gets blasted.
No, no, no...different standard for Lott than Reid. After all, by definition (he’s a Republican) Lott was a racist.
The MSM will never hold a Democrat to the Republican standard.
Obama, in his own book, said he often talks/acts white as to not scare away white folk.
Just imagine the fire storm if it were a Republican!
Trent and Newt left for way less.
When democrats do it - it’s just an honest mistake. Quickly forgotten.
Everyone knows when republicans do it, it is revealing their evil nature. /s
I'll bet fellow racist KlanRAT Byrd dug it!
Obama is reminding me of the Battleship Bismark. Its guns were not able to track the old slow British Torpedo Plane..(Tea Party) and it got hit in the rudder and could only go backwards. Palin got it right..Obama is Backasswards.
Once again proving what side of the isle the real racists reside on.
The Democratic Party rooted in Slavery strikes again!!!
Danny Tarkanian for US Senate!
Could we please get that image with a little, ahem, “black face” added?
Thanks.
I just got this on twitter. One cannot get more racist than saying a African American canwin the presidency if they don’t look or speak too black. Unbelieveable!
And Reid you idiot, whether in private or not, it shows your intellect and racist views of the democratic party. Leave and take Byrd, Pelosi Nazi’s with you. You were a supporter of Obama because you wanted power finally and you rode in on the racist card to win.
Vice President Joseph Biden: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean-cut and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
If the black community hasn’t awakened to what the Democrats think of them by now, it’s hopeless.
Oh, so they are back to the beginning of the pattern.
Repeat as necessary....
Let’s create a RAT with the intelligence of Janet Napolitano, the likeablity of Harry Reid, and the integrity of Chris Dodd. Hell, let’s include the warmth of Zero and the morals of Ted Kennedy.
Oh Come On! Everyone knows that it’s Republicans that are racist. Even the black ones.[sarc]
President Obama is, indeed, "light skinned". And, for sure, "without a Negro dialect".
These seem to be perfectly accurate, non-demeaning and, thus, unobjectionable descriptors. No different than describing Gov. Sarah Palin as "attractive" and "with a Fargo-esque dialect".
Why in heaven's name would he have to apologize?
Okay, it’s true, and it was entirely relevant to Obama’s campaign and election chances. Obama has finely calibrated his racial presentation since adolescence.
Reid is seventy years old, and “Negro” was the polite term of his youth.
So bleeping what? Just once I would like to see these guys find their balls and refuse to apologize.
It's not the thought that counts, just the words you use to express them. /s
So if Obama had dark skin and a “Negro dialect” what then Harry?
“Light skinned?” I think “thin skinned” is more accurate and to the point.
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Media?......media?.....*crickets*
“I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans .. . and especially medium-skinned Nigerian African Americans with ants in their pants, for disrupting their innocent vacations to this country.
(How was that? I meant to call him a neutered high yella
octaroon!
Heh heh heh. Wait a second—tapping mike—Is this thing on?!)
Yeah, but they (Dims) do distribute the money and I guess that’s what counts.
Unreal. Imagine if a conservative said this.
I think the WH is leaking this old news on Reid to force him to walk since he has become radioactive in Nevada, like Daschle in his home state. They probably want Schumer to be the Majority Leader going forward.
But as to the comment, right, Obama says as much about himself but he also wrote he did blow and pals around with Marxists, but no one else can say such things. No one. Not even Uncle Harry.
Go Tark! I wish I lived in NV so I could vote for him!
Look at how his speech patterns change when he’s in front of an “urban” crowd (such as an SEIU rally); all of the sudden, he’s trying to keep it real...
Harry Reid was just speaking from the heart, as he may still be among the minority of Mormons who believe that people of darker skins are under the “Curse of Ham”, forever to be regarded as slaves by the rest of mankind.
Since Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, is of clearly much lighter skin tone than the majority of Americans of African descent, and did not have ancestors who were held in bondage, he apparently escapes this “Curse of Ham”, or at least it lies upon him much more lightly.
In his heart, Harry Reid (along with a number of other liberals) may despise the descendents of the natives of the African continent, and appears to curry Presidential favor with the faintest of praise.
To be fair there are at least two and likely more "black communities." One is indeed beyond redemption and simply needs to die off. There is hope for the others.
This is the “swim with the fishes” from the White House.
Reid is done.
Dems use racism, welfare and entitlements to get minority votes. When the one thing that will lift them up is education and personal achievements. Republicans need to show this in their campaigns that under democrats it is only elite politicians who get a better life. Obama is enriching everyone in his party and his cronies with taxpayer funding he has robbed from us all.
The Hope and change is keep Hoping, maybe change will happen for you. Maybe not.
Those are probably the only true statements Harry Reid has uttered in the past 15 years.
As with the entire parasitic "base" of the Democrat party, that's ALL that matters. It's why Democrats running for election (or re-election) are never effected by scandal, dishonesty, sleaziness, or incompetence. There is absolutely no shame in the Democrat party as long as the "free money" continues to flow. Generally, only Republican scoundrels are forced to resign in disgrace.
So, he said this in private conversations a year ago... to who? When Halperin writes it, is he there? If he was, he saves it for a book to be published a year later? Did the book just come out?
January 4, 2010, 8:58 am
Obama Faces Full Plate Upon Return
By JEFF ZELENY
EXCERPT
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/obama-faces-full-plate-upon-return/
Mr. Obama had planned to make a stop on the way back to Washington – a visit to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada – but his aides concluded that it was better to return to the White House where a full agenda awaits.
surely this will be on keith’s “worst persons”.....not
The Juiciest Revelations In "Game Change"
Game Change, the long-awaited and very gossipy chronicle of the 2008 campaign by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, is chock full of revelations that are bound to stir the folks who live within ten miles of the Beltway -- and perhaps even reverberate beyond Washington.
The book doesn't officially go on sale until next Tuesday. The authors are slated to appear on 60 Minutes Sunday to preview it. I found it available for purchase at a Washington, D.C. bookstore tonight.
Among the more fascinating items:
On page 37, a remark, said "privately" by Sen. Harry Reid, about Barack Obama's racial appeal.
E-mails sent late Friday to Reid staffers were not immediately answered.
The authors write on page 50 about the "war room within a war room" that Hillary Clinton put together to deal with questions about her husband's "libido." The circle of trust included media strategist Howard Wolfson, lawyer Cheryl Mills and confidant Patti Solis Doyle.
The war room within a war room dismissed or discredited much of the gossip floating around, but not all of it. The stories about one woman were more concrete, and after some discreet fact-finding, the group concluded that they were true: that BIll was indeed having an affair -- and not a frivolous one-night stand but a sustained romantic relationship. .... For months, thereafter, the war room within a war room braced for the explosion, which her aides knew could come at any moment.
(I think this was Enquirer story' Bill Clinton and a petite blond)
The authors do not identify the woman.
I don't want to give away the whole book... but I would be remiss if I did not point to the chapters about the unbelievably dysfunctional husband and wife team of John and Elizabeth Edwards. Not only, it turns out, did many senior Edwards staffer suspect that John was having an affair, several confronted John Edwards about it, and came away believing the rumors. At least three campaign aides resigned because of their knowledge of the affair well before the national media picked up on those early National Enquirer stories.
And John and Elizabeth (who the book says was known to Edwards insiders as "abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending, crazywoman") fought, in front of staffers, about the affair. The authors describe a moment where Elizabeth, in a such a state of fury, deliberately tears her blouse in the parking lot of a Raleigh airport terminal, "exposing herself. 'Look at me," she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground." (That's page 142.) (This was in October, by the way, well before the media took the reports of the Hunter affair seriously.)
About Obama himself the book includes plenty of observations about his manner and temperament, many astute and some original, though no earth-shattering revelations. The chapters about John and Cindy McCain's relationship are fascinating; the coverage of McCain's selection of Sarah Palin is mostly familiar ground. There are insights about the way the Bush White House perceived the McCain campaign, although they can be summed up as: not very well.
There are telling anecdotes, such as when Ed Goeas, a pollster for Rudy Giuliani, responds to Judith Giuliani's query about how she could best help his campaign: "First of all, you're his third wife. What you should try to be is humble." (Page 290).
Political scientists aren't going to like this book, because it portrays politics as it is actually lived by the candidates, their staff and the press, which is to say -- a messy, sweaty, ugly, arduous competition between flawed human beings -- a universe away from numbers and probabilities and theories.
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