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A Pass For Harry Reid? Remember Trent Lott?
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Remember Trent Lott, the former GOP Senate Minority Leader who was forced by Democrat backlash to step down from his leadership post seven years ago after making a statement that was clearly twisted to make him look as though he actually regretted civil rights progress?
Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, insensitive statements of that caliber only warrant such serious repercussions when made by Republicans. When Democrats make them, hey, it’s no big deal. Just issue a half-hearted apology and everything is hunky-dory again.
Case in point: During Obama’s primary campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) described him as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect—unless he wanted to have one”!
Reid just recently apologized, saying, “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments.”
Why is he apologizing now if this statement occurred a while back? Don’t think for a minute that his callousness was haunting his sensitive conscience all this time. No, it was simply because he is about to be exposed. A book is about to be published this Monday with that statement in print (Game Change, by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann), so he figures he’ll preempt it with an apology. How clever. As if we don’t see right through that (by “we”, I mean level-headed conservatives; after all, the Democrats certainly aren’t going to see through that ruse!).
With hypocrisy being the Democrat party’s #1 strength, it’s no wonder Obama is so good at it!
Speaking of Obama, here’s what he actually said back when the Trent Lott story was unfolding (courtesy of Weekly Standard):
In light of President Obama’s decision to forgive Harry Reid’s remarks about Obama’s skin color and lack of a “Negro dialect,” check out what Obama said about Trent Lott in 2002:
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-13th), who hosted WVON’s Cliff Kelley Show, challenged the Republican Party to repudiate Lott’s remarks and to call for his resignation as senate leader.
“It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do,” said Obama.
He said: “The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”
–From the December 12, 2002 issue of the Chicago Defender.
And, speaking of presidents whose words can sure come back to bite them, here’s what Bill Clinton said of Obama (also to appear in the new book coming out):
A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee.
Priceless.