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Harry Reid apologizes for "light skinned" ["with no Negro dialect"] remark about Obama
The Washington Post ^ | 1/9/10 | Chris Cillizza

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 111th; apology; bigot; biracial; colorofhisskin; elections; highyellow; martinlutherking; mississippiofthewest; negrodialect; nevada; reid; servingcoffee; skin
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To: LdSentinal

Apparently, Reid thinks that light-skin African-Americans are worth more in the eyes of God than darker ones. Unbelievable.


101 posted on 01/09/2010 2:41:54 PM PST by Dementio
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To: LdSentinal
Elitist busturd slips up again on his own excrement.
102 posted on 01/09/2010 2:42:47 PM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: LdSentinal

Talk like that could land Harry as the next Dem VP.

Since he is a lib: No Harm, No Foul


103 posted on 01/09/2010 2:43:49 PM PST by Jazz1968
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To: Morgana
Of course you know we're not supposed to say "colored" these days...but the NAACP can get away with it.

From Wikapedia:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States.(snip)

Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term "colored people". This is now generally viewed as dated and derogatory. In the historical context of the NAACP, however, the term is not considered offensive.

104 posted on 01/09/2010 2:45:25 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife (11/02/10)
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To: Miss Didi

Excellent post, Miss Didi!


105 posted on 01/09/2010 2:45:47 PM PST by onyx
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To: Dementio

Yup.


106 posted on 01/09/2010 2:47:55 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: LdSentinal

107 posted on 01/09/2010 2:48:41 PM PST by GinaLolaB
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To: jennyjenny

Actually, that’s what the representative in the district adjacent to mine does. Alcee “Buckwheat” Hastings (Idiot, Florida) speaks “white” when addressing the press or a predominantly white audience. Then he speaks like a jive-ass mo-fo when addressing his constituents. I’ve seen it happen. You can also hear it on the phone taps that were used to impeach and convict him as a disgraced federal judge (yet he’s re-elected without serious opposition).


108 posted on 01/09/2010 2:48:58 PM PST by clintonh8r (Proud member of America's "cadre of prickly conservatives.")
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To: onyx

Thanks, onyx...thanks to Matt Drudge!


109 posted on 01/09/2010 2:49:49 PM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: LdSentinal

If Sheets Byrd wasn’t forced to resign for saying the “n-word” twice on a cable news program, then I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Hairy Greed to resign.


111 posted on 01/09/2010 2:53:02 PM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Miss Didi

I might have to buy this book and I didn’t want to! LOL.


112 posted on 01/09/2010 2:54:29 PM PST by onyx
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To: LdSentinal
the fourth paragraph from the reuters story:

Reid said he has been a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Obama and has throughout his career worked to promote adversity in his home state of Nevada and in the Senate.

unintentional truth alert.

113 posted on 01/09/2010 2:55:54 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: LdSentinal

Admitted cocaine and pot user, Barack 0bama, is clean, articulate, light-skinned and doesn’t speak in the negro dialect unless he wants to. What’s not to like? Even a pasty-faced northeastern liberal could vote for him. - DNC talking points memo circa 2007


114 posted on 01/09/2010 2:57:31 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Prisons are full of people like that.Oh,and the DNC too...


115 posted on 01/09/2010 3:03:21 PM PST by Farmer Dean (every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains)
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To: LdSentinal

116 posted on 01/09/2010 3:08:52 PM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: LdSentinal
C'mon. What are you talkin' about? Have some perspective already!

Harry only used demeaning "minstrel show" racial stereotypes to refer to a black, sitting U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate.

It's not like he did anything that rises to the level of a resigning offense! You know, really bad stuff, like uttering a nonsense word, "macaca," or referring favorably to an inconsequential political contest and party from the 1940's!

117 posted on 01/09/2010 3:11:16 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: LdSentinal
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned"

He meant to say "thin skinned".

118 posted on 01/09/2010 3:12:36 PM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: LdSentinal

If you’re a dem and/or African American, the rules are different.


119 posted on 01/09/2010 3:17:52 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: jennyjenny
Would it matter to you if Ronald Reagan was a "dark skinned African American"? Would you have voted for Jimmy Carter if that was the case?

"Of course not" is the answer to both questions. Well put.

120 posted on 01/09/2010 3:20:41 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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