The first distraction are the comments he made about Obama in 2008, which by the way, aren’t racist:
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) apologized Saturday for referring to President Obama in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as “light-skinned” and as having “no Negro dialect.”
The second one, which seems to be popping up in outlets like Drudge Report, is the rumor that Reid had plastic surgery:
While this is going on, the real unemployment keeps rising, the wars goes on and the U.S. government is getting further into debt. Who cares?!
But did you see that Simon Cowell left Idol?
Phydeau, I think it’s safe to say the GOP isn’t really that crazy. She’s their Hillary…put her on the ticket only to guarantee a loss. The real GOP power knows this.
And now that she’s on Fox she’s going to get hammered a couple times in front of her base fans…if they ever let her on live.
And speaking of bimbo alerts… from the above link:
6. McCain Staffers Were Worried About Their Own Spousal Indiscretions: It got to the point that Cindy McCain was confronted by Sen. McCain’s aides. “The man was said to be her long-term boyfriend; the pair had been sighted all over town in the last few years. Members of McCain’s senior staff discussed the unsettling news, and their growing concerns that Cindy’s behavior had been increasingly erratic of late. [Senior political adviser John] Weaver and others suspected that the Cindy rumor was rooted in truth. It was upsetting, Weaver believed, but not a threat.”
And the wingnuts just can’t let go of Bill…
4. … And [Bill]Might Still Be Having Affairs: Hillary Rodham Clinton set up “a war room within a war room” to counter allegations of her husband’s philandering. And one of the ongoing rumors looked like it would pan out. “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.” But the story never broke.
Reid was saying this to other Democrats as an endorsement of Obama. So either Reid is racist, or he feels that Democrats consider blacks to be too dark-skinned and not bright enough.
Reid grew up in an era when “Negro” was the preferred term. United Negro College Fund, Negro Spirituals, even the 2010 Census Form has it for comfort so older African Americans who identify with the term won’t feel slighted. The anthropological term, “Negroid,” is still used along with “Caucasoid” and “Mongoloid” to broadly categorize the human races.
What we really need most is a quick two-syllable word that pins down aging, unhip white guys who have zero chops as anthropologists.
Am I the only one that thinks the guys that wrote “Game Change” come off as complete douche bags?
About the only amazing thing about this “issue” is that the GOP appears ‘outraged’ of a racial remark.
LOL. The public is rolling their eyes.
#26, Well, they do have their own token Negro as the party head, so of course they are upset.
#27 I believe the term is “magic negro”.
Get with the program.
# 19 Phydeau
“According to the authors, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin thought Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.”
As opposed to Dems who insist it was the work of Bush.
“she seemed ready to call her opponent Senator “O’Biden”
That would have been clever, though. Unfortunately she only “seemed ready.”
chin on her chest, arms folded, eyes cast to the floor, speechless and motionless”
Sort of like the silhouette Kennedy looking out the window. Yes, really bad.
“his aides were planning to reduce Palin’s role “to the largely ceremonial role”
Who knew aides had so much power?
But that’s it, huh? Since you evidently listen to anything anybody tells you, it’s all untrue. Now you can vote for her.
RBG
RBG…she called him O’Biden during the debate.
This is pretty much in the same category of George Allen’s macaca comment.
The only difference here is which party someone making the comment is affiliated with and which double standard is being applied.
#24 – the term is “cracker”.
Bill Clinton referred to Obama should be getting them coffee. Somehow Al Sharpton thinks that’s the worse remark.
I’d say Reid’s remarks exposes the Democrats’ view of blacks. The word Negro is not that important, given his age. Bobbo is right on this point. Instead, it is his focus on being light-skinned, articulate, etc. Biden referred to him as clean and articulate. Before Reid said Clarence Thomas was not an intellectual. We are seeing a pattern of thinking blacks are dumb as a default.
Reid has added skin-whitening to the health care bill.
http://tinyurl.com/y9pphz7
Doesn’t say anything about anus bleaching.
I agree with #1. Reid didn’t say he cared about any of the “raciest” things he mentioned. He said other people do and that Obama was in a good position to deal with those issues.
Refer back to Bush and articulate. If Obama hadn’t been a great Orator he would not have been elected and if McCain had been a great Orator he would have done much better.