Posted on 01/11/2010 3:46:55 AM PST by Scanian
Democrats are preparing to throw the race card back in the laps of Republicans as part of a counter attack designed to help save Harry Reid’s political career.
First, Reid’s allies plan to distribute the NAACP vote ratings of Republican senators who have scolded him. The data will be made available to editorial boards, cable programs and the blogosphere — including votes on minimum wage, community-oriented policing, education funding and HIV/AIDS programs.
Separately, the Congressional Black Caucus plans to issue a new statement Monday, defending Reid and brushing back Republicans.
“Senator Reid’s record provides a stark contrast to actions of Republicans to block legislation that would benefit poor and minority communities – most recently reflected in Republican opposition to the health bill now under consideration,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said. “I look forward to Senator Reid continuing to serve as Majority Leader to guide this important agenda through the Senate.”
These moves to turn the race issue back onto Republicans is risky, yet it shows how Reid and his allies are ready to pull out all the stops to help the majority leader recover from his disastrous comments about Barack Obama being “light-skinned” and having no “Negro dialect.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I love it! I hope they continue to defend this guy. Harry, continue to fight you are only helping your Party drive over the cliff faster.
he he he
Very good points. Didn't Obama cut off the funds that were allowing some low income students to attend charter school in DC making them return to public schools?
I expect Rush to launch Operation Chaos part 2. A trick he has had planned to agree with the MSM. This is the perfect opportunity.
Sen. Macaca (D-NV) should simply resign rather than try to change the subject.
You are correct.
Any pubbie says a word about race not politically correct and the dems hound him out of office.
Dems do the same and it is ignored or excused.
It is just ONE of the many things about the pubbies that irk my rear end.
Why do the pubbies not hold dems to the same levals of political correctness?
Why do they not force them out when the likes of the kennedy dopper run his car in to crap while he is doped up?
Etc.
Harry Reid on Trent Lott: “I think what he said is not good for America; it’s repugnant...” -Las Vegas Review-Journal, (12-02)
Reid...in 2002 agreed with former Sen. Trent Lott’s (R-Miss.) decision to resign his leadership role after Lott made what some felt were racist remarks at former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.
“He had no alternative,” said Reid at the time claiming, “If you tell ethnic jokes in the backroom, it’s that much easier to say ethnic things publicly. I’ve always practiced how I play.”
“He had no alternative”
“Senator Lott dug himself a hole and he didn’t dig it all in one setting. He dug it over the years. And he couldn’t figure out a way to get out of it.”
In 2002, Harry Reid 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.”
- and -
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (C-13th), 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.
*** Fast forward to 2010 ***
Obama’s comments on Harry Reid:
“Harry Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today. I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart. As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”
It’s maddening to watch them trot out Sharpton to be an apologist every time a Dem puts a racial foot in its mouth. Also, he holds on to long ago mistakes of the same nature made by Republicans and shrilly makes it sound like it happened yesterday (Trent Lott, something about wanting a segregationist in office? 1994?)
...Watching he and Steve Doocy on FOX this morning, it was odd to see him raise his voice in anger over the Trent Lott comments made long ago and sticking up for the stupid and blatantly racist remarks recently made by Reed. A glaring double standard which showed to me just how much they need to hold “Liar’s anonymous” meetings in the Democratic (Chicago) party.
If what Reed said is true, I can just see Obama with some of his home boys, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and laughing and slapping each other’s hands in jive talk at the stupid white honky Americans.
Please take a look at how you are being used and how race is being used merely as a weapon. You don't mean anything to them other than a club to use on their enemies.
From now on, I don't want to hear about how "offended" you are at words, I don't want to hear how "bad" anyone is for saying something. It won't work anymore just like acting like discrimination is still real won't work. Sorry, it's over.
The Democrat theory of acquiring and staying in power is totally opposite of the Republican. The Rats will defend any elected Rat to their dying breath. The Republicans will throw people overboard at the first sign of trouble, hoping to keep the brand name from being smeared. Whether it's correct or not, the strategy is very consistent.
Then go all the way back to before the civil rights movement, and show which part supported the bill.
Show Byrd as the grand dragon of the KKK, and his interview on the Tony Snow show where he used the "N" word.
As if white people do not work for minimum wage, desire police protection, want education and catch AIDS.
Their so-called solution and support is just another layer of racial pandering. It's an ultimate insult to black people, because they are defining a race of human beings by their challenges.
Thereby they ignore the first step in extracting oneself from a hole - They keep digging.
Harry Reid has restored the word “negro” to acceptable use
Will the congressional black caucus change its name to show support?
One has to give the demonRATS credit when and where it is due.
They can take ONE unknown word and turn it into a campaign to destroy someone. Of course they generally get a lot of help from the republicans.
We have no inkling as to what Mr. Allen meant by “Macaca,” though we rather doubt his campaign’s imaginative explanation that it was somehow an allusion to Mr. Sidarth’s hairstyle, a mullet. Mr. Allen said last night that no slur was intended, though he failed to explain what, exactly, he did have in mind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081401114.html
Allen said, “In singling out the Webb campaign’s cameraman, I was trying to make the point that Jim Webb had never been to that part of Virginia — and I encouraged him to bring the tape back to Jim and welcome him to the real world of Virginia and America, outside the Beltway, where he has rarely visited.
“I also made up a nickname for the cameraman, which was in no way intended to be racially derogatory. Any insinuations to the contrary are completely false.”
Allen said it “was certainly not my intent” to offend anyone by the remark.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/16/allen.volunteer/index.html
Forget the macaca “moment” — the Post has tried to turn this into Macaca Month.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/node/7367#ixzz0cJCdNsrJ
\”It is unacceptable that Senator Allen used a racial slur to refer to a twenty-year old native Virginian of Indian descent. Senator Allen needs to explain himself and owes the Indian American community an apology.\”
WE THE UNDERSIGNED DEMAND A CLARIFICATION AND A FORMAL APOLOGY FROM THE ALLEN CAMPAIGN TO THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/macaca/
Allen’s use of the word “macaca” in referring to a Webb campaign volunteer of Indian descent in August prompted an outcry. The word denotes a genus of monkeys and, in some cultures, is considered an ethnic slur. But the senator insisted he did not know that and had simply made up the word.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/26/politics/main2039589.shtml
SEN. GEORGE ALLEN’S macaca moment has granted the nation a few days’ reprieve from thoughts of mass murder and provided a new vocab word for the zeitgeist.
Doubtless no one present knew what “macaca” meant but subsequently those three syllables have caused a tectonic shift in the political plates. Literally it’s the name of a monkey common to North Africa and Asia; figuratively it’s a racial slur in some parts of the world.
And in the U.S. effective last Friday it’s an eponym for “major political boo-boo.”
http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-08-20/opinion/17308777_1_sidarth-macaca-racial-slur
It is truly an amazing sight to behold. Utter and total corruption.
Before long, it will be "We don't mind giving you that health care as long as you vote the way we want you to".....
Ah, well, it's important to specify what TYPE of minority children they were. I mean, if they were light skinned children that didn't speak with a Nergo dialect, then that is definitely more a problem then if they had darker skin and spoke...Negro?
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