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Harry Reid: I sure hope Republicans are opposed to Obama because of his policies and not his race
Hot Air ^ | August 9, 2013 | Allahpundit

Posted on 08/11/2013 7:02:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We’ll know that it was really about racism when Hillary’s elected in 2016 and GOP opposition to Democratic policies magically melts away.

Didn’t this guy once compare opposing ObamaCare to opposing the end of slavery?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told KNPR radio Friday that he hopes Republicans’ ongoing opposition to President Obama is driven by “substance” and not race.

“My counterpart, Mitch McConnell, said at the the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama that he had one goal — and that is to defeat Obama and make sure he wasn’t re-elected. And that’s how they legislate in the Senate,” he said. “It was really bad. And we’re now seven months into this second term of the president’s and they haven’t changed much.”

“It’s been obvious that they’re doing everything they can to make him fail,” Reid said. “And I hope, I hope — and I say this seriously — I hope that’s based on substance and not the fact that he’s African-American.”

Just Dingy being Dingy. There’s no one in Congress who relishes an effortless smear as much as he does, be it dumb racial demagoguery of his opponents, baselessly accusing Romney of not paying his taxes, or hint-hinting that John McCain, whom he can’t praise highly enough lately, might be borderline deranged and therefore unfit for the presidency. Too bad the the radio host didn’t ask him the obvious follow-up: Does he think, correspondingly, that Democrats support Obama in part because of his race? Before you dismiss that as a rhetorical question, remember that Reid allegedly once said that he thought O’s race was a net plus for him in the 2008 primary. But only because he had, ahem, “no Negro dialect.”

Let’s clear the air of his verbal farts with a little music, shall we?(continued)

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1 posted on 08/11/2013 7:02:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t like his cracka half.


2 posted on 08/11/2013 7:04:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberty offends the ‘Rats.


3 posted on 08/11/2013 7:06:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Hey Harry!

If it’s any consolation, you suck just as bad as he does.

Hope this answers your question.


4 posted on 08/11/2013 7:07:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: cripplecreek

If a white man or a green reptilian Martian were doing the same things, I’d oppose him just as much.


5 posted on 08/11/2013 7:07:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tim Scott and Rand Paul need to filibuster any budget that funds Obamacare.


6 posted on 08/11/2013 7:08:45 PM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you are white, this statement by Reid is very very insulting. Telling a white person that he is oppose to Obamacare because Obama is black is like telling a Jew that he is motivated purely by the love of money. If whites vote for Dems he deserves to be treated second class when he becomes a racial minority in the future. Ironic thing is a white Dem will be the one slapping his face if he protest the mistreatment.


7 posted on 08/11/2013 7:08:57 PM PDT by Fee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a good thing Obama is a “clean and articulate” black man, right Harry?


8 posted on 08/11/2013 7:09:06 PM PDT by struggle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ya mean the guy that’s focused on race baiting and division the whole time he’z fraudulently occupied our house?


9 posted on 08/11/2013 7:09:10 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: struggle

A few years ago he would have been bringing you your coffee,right Harry?Your idol Bill Clinton said so.


10 posted on 08/11/2013 7:11:59 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, Harry, if it’s any consolation to you, I can’t stand you for your policies, your race, your upbringing, your education, your life experience, your clothing, your glasses, your sneery, sour face, your ... well, you understand, Harry. I loathe you and everything that goes with you. Oh, and I also can’t stand you for your abuse and manipulation of our political system for your own personal gain.


11 posted on 08/11/2013 7:12:07 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whar are you trying to suggest Harry? Its not about his race. It has everything to do with his diviseness, circumventing constitutional law to get whatever he wants, numerous assaults on the 1st - 6th amendments, the “real” scandals, assasinations, sealed records, repeated lying to the American people, progressive agendas, leaking sensitive intel for political purposes that gets people killed, ties to the Muslim Brotherhood...hell we could go on all day. There’s never been a more attrocious president in power than this one. Its not the race, Harry, despite what you’re suggesting to create even more division...


12 posted on 08/11/2013 7:15:30 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reid has offered to buy Obama but Soros truned him down.

Harry Reid said:

“Obama could be successful thanks, in part, to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”


13 posted on 08/11/2013 7:17:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The reason we are where we are today is the belief that posting on a website will fix the nation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

14 posted on 08/11/2013 7:18:06 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh yes, the communist race. I guess communism, socialism, fascism are just one big government race now.


15 posted on 08/11/2013 7:21:16 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even the racist Reid “light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” Democrat is now playing the race card?


16 posted on 08/11/2013 7:24:25 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: jsanders2001
circumventing constitutional law to get whatever he wants, numerous assaults on the 1st - 6th amendments, the “real” scandals, assasinations, sealed records, repeated lying to the American people, progressive agendas, leaking sensitive intel for political purposes that gets people killed, ties to the Muslim Brotherhood...hell we could go on all day. There’s never been a more attrocious president in power than this one.

And Harry, anything that was missed but will doubtlessly turn up later, you and your fellow RATs can wear it too.

17 posted on 08/11/2013 7:26:37 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't oppose Obama because I'm a racist....I oppose him because I'm a sexist.


18 posted on 08/11/2013 7:29:59 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. Don’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since implementation of Commune-Style Obama’care’ is a privacy violation to the US Constitution, then an injunction needs to be filed with SCOTUS by the Esteemed Speaker of the House, John “Cave-In” Boehner.

The key to success is to bypass all Administration Bureaus.

Oh wait, I forgot that “Cave-In” Boehner is on vaycay for 5 weeks - - - - !


19 posted on 08/11/2013 7:31:08 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Belteshazzar

I like your attitude!


20 posted on 08/11/2013 7:32:58 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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21 posted on 08/11/2013 7:34:06 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rest assured Harry , we hate you too and your color is sallow.


22 posted on 08/11/2013 7:36:50 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: cripplecreek

ditto


23 posted on 08/11/2013 7:38:55 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sad thing is, A-Holes like McCain, Boner, Cantor, McConnell, Cornyn and other such spineless maggots are seriously considering Reid's Bull Sh*t.

The GOPe and RINOs are as big a threat to our nation as the Democrats and Obama.

A country full of fools!

24 posted on 08/11/2013 7:40:23 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To quote the Hildabeast: “What does it matter?” Obama is to be despised because he is a traitor intent on destroying America. Anything else, like his race, is entirely secondary.


25 posted on 08/11/2013 7:40:30 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll say this much, my contempt and loathing for “Dingy Harry” at least equals that I feel for the poseur and his pogroms.

Is that contempt equally based on Harry’s race?


26 posted on 08/11/2013 7:44:12 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reid is an absolute jackass. Party and person.


27 posted on 08/11/2013 7:50:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reid = moron.


28 posted on 08/11/2013 7:51:08 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'll put it this way. Obama sucks rooster. Reid is Obama's bitch.

He's worse.

29 posted on 08/11/2013 7:52:04 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

on NPR, natch....


30 posted on 08/11/2013 7:57:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (white Caucasian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I oppose Obama because of the newly defined 30 hour week for wage earners. I oppose Obama because of the 40% excise tax on “Cadillac” policies for union workers and early retirees. I oppose Obama for taking $700 BILLION from Medicare and subjecting seniors to death panels.

I oppose Obama for not rescuing the Ambassador of Libya and the other three Americans.

I oppose Obama for ordering (yes ordering) the IRS to target my fellow Americans.

I oppose Obama for signing the Patriot Act in 2011 in the dark of night and then ordering the NSA to spy on Americans without probable cause and warrant and then pass that information to other Government Agencies.

I oppose Obama for targeting journalists even though most of MSM are his poodle.

Mr. Reid, you are a blemish to the Senate, to this country.

31 posted on 08/11/2013 7:59:37 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nah, it’s all about race Reid you nitwit. We conservatives love Marxism and actually can’t wait to establish a socialist republic to rival the old Soviet Union. What a dope.


32 posted on 08/11/2013 8:07:27 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WE DON'T CARE ABOUT HIS COLOR. WE SIMPLY DON'T CARE.

Here are the things we DO have against him: Obama is a disciple of an astoundingly and incredibly amoral and immoral author like Saul Alinsky who dedicated the pinnacle of his life’s work (Rules for Radicals) to, amongst other things, Satan.

Obama is a close associate of a terrorist like Bill Ayers and his like in the Weathermen, a group who killed AMERICANS with bombs, a POS who wished he had done more violence, whose most public moments in print are accompanied by a picture of him proudly and triumphantly standing on top of an American flag, the same flag I and my father served under, and my father was buried under. This man is one of Obama’s principal patrons, who by his own admission is “guilty as sin-free as a bird”, and quite proud of that.who thought a reasonable price to pay would be to kill millions of Americans who wouldn’t buy into their radical plans once they took power, not to mention Bernadine Dohrn who thought the sticking of a fork by murderers into the slain body of a pregnant woman was a fabulous thing. Do any of YOU out there have friends like this? Do you even KNOW anyone like this? THESE people are close friends and associates of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Think about that for a minute.

Obama is a close personal friend with a Black Theologian racist “Reverend” Wright who thinks the white people in this country invented AIDS to kill black people, donated thousands of dollars to this man’s “church” as he sat in the pews for twenty years nodding with agreement all those years before the light of the public shined for a fleeting instant on that rathole.

Obama has vowed on recorded film to gut our military

Obama is corrupt to the core, steered money towards his family (wife) and friends.

Obama is an avowed socialist who believes in redistribution of wealth. In his own words: "One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that." And also, this: "But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf." And this: "...but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts..."

Obama thinks higher taxes are the way to fix our problems.

Obama thinks higher gasoline prices are good for us.

Obama thinks guns should be banned.

Obama has dishonorably bowed at the waist as a supplicant a la POW Dick Stratton (who did it bravely and honorably to his captors) to a Saudi King, something NEVER before done by a US President. As such, he has clearly telegraphed one of two things to the leaders and intelligence agencies both friend and foe: He is either incredibly stupid and naive, or he is deliberately sending a signal to those who are paying attention of his view of America’s new place in the world and his desire to set that place at the table for us.

THAT is just a sample of why we despise this clown. It has NOTHING to do with the pigmentation of his skin. And, Harry...these are many of the same things we have against YOU.

33 posted on 08/11/2013 8:25:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sure hope Democrats like him because he is an American hating communist, and not because he is black enough for the leftist plantation.


34 posted on 08/11/2013 8:35:02 PM PDT by pallis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is being a communist a race?


35 posted on 08/11/2013 8:48:28 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Harry Reid studied back when he was in school about America’s ascent to freedom, he would recognize Zer0 for the Marxist he is. However, I suspect Harry Reid was more concerned about people calling him “Pinky” because of his red face than studying American history. Maybe that is why he took up street fighting as a kid rather than opening up that civics book.

The nickname Pinky is appropriate for Harry Reid because that is also the name people gave to Communists: Pinko. Pinky Reid is also a pinko. We should call him Pinko Pinky Reid. Such an appropriate name for a member of Zer0s cheerleader squad.


36 posted on 08/11/2013 10:06:40 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These guy are getting bolder and more aggressive all the time.

One can assume that they are under pressure and all in on their anti American middle class agenda.

All they care about are the low infos and the takers


37 posted on 08/11/2013 10:08:26 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Harry Reid: I sure hope Republicans are opposed to Obama because of his policies and not his race

You can take it to the bank and deposit it with your criminal real estate loot, Pinky Reid, that the American People oppose Obama because of his lying Marxist policies as well as his divisive racial agenda.

38 posted on 08/12/2013 1:17:41 AM PDT by Amagi (Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
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To: Amagi
Now, now......Harry just wants to make sure our opposition isn't due to Obama being a clean, articulate, light-skinned black man with no negro dialect unless he wanted one........
39 posted on 08/12/2013 1:22:43 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope no one dislikes Harry Reid because he’s an idiot rather than his politics...


40 posted on 08/12/2013 2:00:50 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: al_c

Harry Reid. Too stupid to be an idiot.


41 posted on 08/12/2013 3:23:55 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: rlmorel

On this forum, it’s so great -
the way you can articulate.
That post of yours is straight-up fine
and PROVES there is no color line.


42 posted on 08/12/2013 7:39:44 AM PDT by b9 (II Timothy 1:7)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I once saw Harry Reid take the hand of a small boy and walk him across a busy street. And I hope, I hope — and I say this seriously — I hope that’s because he wanted to keep the boy safe, and not because he just wanted to touch a young boy that day.

/s

Harry Reid is despicable.


43 posted on 08/12/2013 11:22:29 AM PDT by Fletcher J
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I sure hope Republicans are opposed to Obama because of his policies and not his race

One seems to have a lot to do with the other.

44 posted on 08/12/2013 1:37:51 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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