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Okay, it’s true, and it was entirely relevant to Obama’s campaign and election chances. Obama has finely calibrated his racial presentation since adolescence.
Reid is seventy years old, and “Negro” was the polite term of his youth.
So bleeping what? Just once I would like to see these guys find their balls and refuse to apologize.
It's not the thought that counts, just the words you use to express them. /s
“Light skinned?” I think “thin skinned” is more accurate and to the point.
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Media?......media?.....*crickets*
“I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans .. . and especially medium-skinned Nigerian African Americans with ants in their pants, for disrupting their innocent vacations to this country.
(How was that? I meant to call him a neutered high yella
octaroon!
Heh heh heh. Wait a second—tapping mike—Is this thing on?!)
Unreal. Imagine if a conservative said this.
Harry Reid was just speaking from the heart, as he may still be among the minority of Mormons who believe that people of darker skins are under the “Curse of Ham”, forever to be regarded as slaves by the rest of mankind.
Since Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, is of clearly much lighter skin tone than the majority of Americans of African descent, and did not have ancestors who were held in bondage, he apparently escapes this “Curse of Ham”, or at least it lies upon him much more lightly.
In his heart, Harry Reid (along with a number of other liberals) may despise the descendents of the natives of the African continent, and appears to curry Presidential favor with the faintest of praise.
This is the “swim with the fishes” from the White House.
Reid is done.
Those are probably the only true statements Harry Reid has uttered in the past 15 years.
So, he said this in private conversations a year ago... to who? When Halperin writes it, is he there? If he was, he saves it for a book to be published a year later? Did the book just come out?
January 4, 2010, 8:58 am
Obama Faces Full Plate Upon Return
By JEFF ZELENY
EXCERPT
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/obama-faces-full-plate-upon-return/
Mr. Obama had planned to make a stop on the way back to Washington – a visit to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada – but his aides concluded that it was better to return to the White House where a full agenda awaits.
surely this will be on keith’s “worst persons”.....not
The Juiciest Revelations In "Game Change"
Game Change, the long-awaited and very gossipy chronicle of the 2008 campaign by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, is chock full of revelations that are bound to stir the folks who live within ten miles of the Beltway -- and perhaps even reverberate beyond Washington.
The book doesn't officially go on sale until next Tuesday. The authors are slated to appear on 60 Minutes Sunday to preview it. I found it available for purchase at a Washington, D.C. bookstore tonight.
Among the more fascinating items:
On page 37, a remark, said "privately" by Sen. Harry Reid, about Barack Obama's racial appeal.
E-mails sent late Friday to Reid staffers were not immediately answered.
The authors write on page 50 about the "war room within a war room" that Hillary Clinton put together to deal with questions about her husband's "libido." The circle of trust included media strategist Howard Wolfson, lawyer Cheryl Mills and confidant Patti Solis Doyle.
The war room within a war room dismissed or discredited much of the gossip floating around, but not all of it. 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. .... For months, thereafter, the war room within a war room braced for the explosion, which her aides knew could come at any moment.
(I think this was Enquirer story' Bill Clinton and a petite blond)
The authors do not identify the woman.
I don't want to give away the whole book... but I would be remiss if I did not point to the chapters about the unbelievably dysfunctional husband and wife team of John and Elizabeth Edwards. Not only, it turns out, did many senior Edwards staffer suspect that John was having an affair, several confronted John Edwards about it, and came away believing the rumors. At least three campaign aides resigned because of their knowledge of the affair well before the national media picked up on those early National Enquirer stories.
And John and Elizabeth (who the book says was known to Edwards insiders as "abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending, crazywoman") fought, in front of staffers, about the affair. The authors describe a moment where Elizabeth, in a such a state of fury, deliberately tears her blouse in the parking lot of a Raleigh airport terminal, "exposing herself. 'Look at me," she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground." (That's page 142.) (This was in October, by the way, well before the media took the reports of the Hunter affair seriously.)
About Obama himself the book includes plenty of observations about his manner and temperament, many astute and some original, though no earth-shattering revelations. The chapters about John and Cindy McCain's relationship are fascinating; the coverage of McCain's selection of Sarah Palin is mostly familiar ground. There are insights about the way the Bush White House perceived the McCain campaign, although they can be summed up as: not very well.
There are telling anecdotes, such as when Ed Goeas, a pollster for Rudy Giuliani, responds to Judith Giuliani's query about how she could best help his campaign: "First of all, you're his third wife. What you should try to be is humble." (Page 290).
Political scientists aren't going to like this book, because it portrays politics as it is actually lived by the candidates, their staff and the press, which is to say -- a messy, sweaty, ugly, arduous competition between flawed human beings -- a universe away from numbers and probabilities and theories.
“President Bush is a liar,” Reid, the Senate’s Assistant Majority Leader, said. “He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.”
“And people may not like what I said, but I said it, and I don’t back off one bit.”
“The man’s father is a wonderful human being,” Reid, D-Nev., told students at Del Sol High School when asked about the president’s policies. “I think this guy is a loser.”
Shortly after the event Reid called the White House to apologize...
RS: You’ve called Bush a loser.
HR: And a liar.
RS: You apologized for the loser comment.
HR: But never for the liar, have I?
“It should be noted that Reid did apologize for calling Bush a loser. But it’s also true that Reid called Bush a liar and never apologized, and that his fellow Democrats were not outraged.
Harry Reid called President George W. Bush a “loser” and a “liar. Reid subsequently apologized for calling Bush a loser, but he refused to apologize for calling him a liar.
I don't know, ask Senator Byrd.