Posted on 01/10/2010 6:07:37 PM PST by Starman417
Contrast their embrace of Reid with the GOP effort led by President Bush to dump then Majority Leader Trent Lott!
I've often said that when it comes to scandals, the GOP likes to clean up the mess as quickly as possible (sometimes a bit too quickly). When it comes to Democrats, they like to leave the garbage in the living room and let it stink.
We're seeing another example of that with the Harry Reid scandal where the Senate Majority Leader spoke of then candidate Obama as appealing because he was "light skinned" and spoke "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
Harry Reid did a quick round of phone calls apologizing to every African-American leader in sight, including President Obama who "accepted Harry’s apology without question."
As a warning that there is perhaps more to Reid's comment than a slip of the tongue we have the Senator's own words from 2002 after Lott was forced to resign:
Asked if the episode would serve as a warning to weigh his own words carefully, Reid said: "You play how you practice...If you tell ethnic jokes in the backroom, it's that much easier to say ethnic things publicly. I've always practiced how I play."Contrast Reid's quickee apologies with the apology tour that Trent Lott undertook when he made a casual remark praising Strom Thurmond on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Lott apologized over and over and over and yet the perpetually offended grievance mongers in the Democrat Party refused to accept his apology. You would have thought Lott wanted to bring back the Jim Crow era of segregation which he clearly did not.
Lott was eventually driven from office by Senate Republicans with a big push from the White House. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called Lott's remarks "offensive and repugnant." President Bush called Lott's comments "offensive" and "wrong."
Read more at floppingaces.net ...
I'd Rather it wasn't true but the Truth is Blairing, if you trust the state controlled American media (SCAM) to report the news you're going to get Cooked.
That's not necessarily good news for the GOP, since he was damaged and beatable. Same with Dodd.
It would have been nice if this were an October Suprise...
Right on right on right on!
I hope Black Americans of the Democrat persuasion realize that the Democrat party leaders all hold these disturbing thoughts.
If you have not figured it out by now, the double standard of sexism and racism is the radical stragety plan of “hanging your opponent with his own standards and morals.” Democrats game Republicans with the race and sex witch hunts they run. Republicans fall for it every time and axe the Dem’s target, ie Trent Lott. Disgusting.
Well of courseracists always stick together! I hear they even have a club called the KKK, Sen Byrd used to be a leader in his younger days!
They’ll make excuses for them as long as the “redistribution” (something for nothing) keeps happening.
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