Reid calls language proposal racist (Dingy Harry steps in it)

Washington Times ^ | 5/19/06 | Charles Hurt

[teddyballgame]

ol' Dingy showin' off his IQ again. The thought of him as leader of the Senate and Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House should do more to energize the base than anything.

[ZULU]

Harry Reid reminds me of that inkblot test joke.

No matter what the ink blot is shped like, it looks racist to him.

Are most people in Nevada as screwy as he is?

Who is his constitutency? The bordellos and gambling Casinos?

I didn't think even THEY were screwy enough to elect this loon.

[teddyballgame]

Searchlight Harry in search of a clue.

[AmishDude]

Cool! Yo hablo un poco de español. I'm an oppressed minority!

[massgopguy]

Harry needs to spend a weekend in Quebec.

[Roccus]

The 63-34 vote did NOT make English the official language' The Dems won another one!

[.cnI redruM]

Back in 1993, Congressman Reid seemed to understand these things. He brought up a tough-minded immigration bill back then. It's too bad Newt never stole that from him and tacked it on as point 11 of The Contract With America.

[Bahbah]

Earlier this year, Mr. Reid confessed on the Senate floor that his anti-immigrant fervor "mostly lasted about a week or two" before his wife brought him around to the more open position he holds today. But nearly a year after his "freeloaders" statement, Mr. Reid was on the Senate floor criticizing immigrants again and worrying about their cultural impact. "We must reduce the annual admissions of legal immigrants to more moderate levels in order to provide for a better country -- both environmentally and socially -- in the years to come," Mr. Reid said

So what have I learned about Harry Ried? Why, that he is an open and notorious LIAR.

[ExTexasRedhead]

In talking to people from Nevada, Harry baby is an embarrassment to the state. His lunacy in DC isn't going over so well at home. Too bad he doesn't know it yet.

[carrier-aviator]

So, English is racist?

English is the official language of the world's largest black country: Nigeria. Are those 100+ million blacks racist?

English is also the official language of the Asian powerhouse of Singapore. Are all those Asians racist?

I presume Reid must think "Hispanics" are a separate race. The OMB defines Hispanic or Latino as "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

And the last time I looked, Vicente Fox was white (as are all the ruling class in Mexico).

If it is thw white oppressive majority in the US that would be foisting English as the official language on others, why would the numero uno Mexican, Vicente Fox, a white man, be offended?

[Old Seadog]

[Tanniker Smith]

Dingy should take a walk along Brighton Beach sometime. And a quick train ride will leave him in Chinatown. There are over 100 languages spoken in Brooklyn. Add dialects, and it climbs to nearly 200. Just about every nation in the UN is represented here, and I'm not talking about diplomats.

[depressed in 06]

When you are holding zip, play the race card.

[Exit148]

Just because the whole immigration (think latino) issue, which is a mess and getting worse, brought this to the table, then we ARE speaking of one group. That is simply a fact. If he chooses to use 'race' terms then he is showing his own stupidity, and his peers should come down on him.

Anyone or any group that is against having a country choose its official language should have his/their motives examined.

[ZULU]

Actually, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, Algore, and Diane Frankenfeinstein are secret Republican weapons.

With leaders like them, the Dems are sure to remain marginalized.

[RightWhale]

This amendment is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish

The Spanish language is not a race. Amazing a Senator would use an argument already thoroughly discredited on the street and in the communications media.

[seamusnh]

I don't favor doing anything because some other nation does it, but France has an official language - French. Is the French government racist for having this? Harry?

[retarmy]

I strongly endorse your sentiments. When my people arrived here from the Russian Empire, the first thing that was forbidden was speaking Russian with the children, regardless if they were born there or here and English became, as best as possible, the household language. Only the “Mustache Joes” spoke together in Russian, Polish, or Turkic when they played cards and the Babuski (grandmothers) when they played Mah Zhong.

My people, like yours and everyone else who immigrated to this wonderful country came here to enjoy the liberties that are guaranteed under the Constitution and to be able to achieve whatever they could achieve as Americans. Never have I ever heard any foreign-born relative call himself or herself a Russian-American, for to do so meant to them that they were second-class citizens, not real Americans.

My wife and mother-in-law are naturalized Americans who had to go through years of waiting and strenuous testing to get both their “green card” and citizenship, but they too do not consider themselves German-Americans and they react unkindly to anyone who calls them that.

What I think is the real issue in this case of a “national language” is not immigration, it is assimilation. Regardless if the immigrants are Latino, Haitian, German, Swiss, Vietnamese, or Russian, they came here to become Americans, so American (English) should be the language we all speak when we are in a business or governmental environment.

[RightWhale]

Is the French government racist

They are definitely something, if not racist.

[seamusnh]

It is ironic that Spain has an official language and it is Spanish. As does Mexico. I think that I am going to go to Spain and demand that they have everything in English and Gaelic. I am a dual Irish and American citizen and can legally live in Spain with my Irish passport. How do you think they'll react to my demands that stop having an official language...