Think, Harry, think!
Posted on 01/10/2010 4:41:04 PM PST by GOP_Lady
WASHINGTON -- Republicans called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign his leadership post over remarks he made in 2008 about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, adding to the Nevada Democrat's political troubles.
Harry Reid's Apology1:58President Obama accepts Senate majority leader Harry Reid's apology for his racial remarks. Video courtesy of Fox News. . Mr. Reid, who supported Mr. Obama's candidacy, said in private remarks during the campaign that the country was ready for a "light-skinned" African-American president with "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." The remarks are recounted in a new book, "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime."
A spokesman for Mr. Reid said the senator wouldn't resign his leadership post. "He has no intention of stepping down," Jim Manley said. "Unlike others who advocate moving our nation backwards and viewing this moment for political gain, he's working...to move our country forward."
The controversy comes at a critical moment for Mr. Reid, who is facing an uphill battle for re-election this year and is trying to shepherd Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul through the Senate.
In a refrain echoed by other Republicans, party chairman Michael Steele said Mr. Reid should be held to the same standard as former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Mr. Lott was forced to resign his leadership post in 2002 after suggesting the nation would have been better off had it embraced the segregationist policies of presidential candidate Strom Thurmond more than a half century ago.
European Pressphoto Agency Republicans called on Harry Reid to resign his leadership post. . "There's a big double standard here," Mr. Steele said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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Duck. It’s hitting the fan.
Nah keep him busy in the house,if he quits he wiil have alot of time to spend getting reelected in Nevada...
Is that some sort of Bible verse? Only the Messiah would know.
Hey! Why is everyone jumping all over Reid just because he thought Barry was one of the nice Negroes? /sarc
No, Trent Lot didn't say "the nation would have been better off had it embraced the segregationist policies of presidential candidate Strom Thurmond more than a half century ago".
Just what are we going to do when even the WSJ "newsies" can't figure out how to tell a story without editorial BS.
Sadly, I agree with Reid. Obama would turn on his 1/2 Negroidness (is that even a word) to serve his purpose..but he is an elitist that doesn’t get down with his homies. I am thinking about that pic of him doing some gangster sign...or maybe it isn’t even a gangster sign..an urban sign..with his hands.
Charlatan.
It's all about the agenda.
Even if the story gets legs, all His Majesty has to say is "Health Care, Cap & Trade, Card-Check", etc. and Goofy Harry will skate.
(NOTE: I know the literary Uncle Tom was an OK guy, but time and circumstances have created a new type of Uncle Tom who uses every opportunity to sell out to The Man at the expense of the black people. We are not discussing a literary Uncle Tom in this case.)
That ought to pretty well put the Democrats in the dumper comes the next several elections.
Harry’s “macacca” moment couldn’t come at a better time. May Almighty God continue to trip him with his own tongue, Amen.
Reid is a big RAT. He ain’t going anywhere no matter what anybody says or does.
Common sense dictates his next House will be a pine box.
A Socialist is a Socialist, first and foremost-regardless of skin color.
This story will disappear tomorrow and there will never be any consequences.
OMG..I nearly literally spit out my coke looking at that pic..Very funny
Obama's an Uncle Tom, and Harry Reid hates blacks.
I'm sure others can improve on that, but it should be possible to get both concepts into a short, pithy phrase, readily understood by even Democrats,
Breitbart’s already tweeting this is an inside Dem job- someone wants him out.
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