By now you all know about Harry Reid’s racist comments about then Senator Barack Obama; now RNC Chairman Michael Steele says Harry Reid needs to step down. Steele says that Reid should suffer the same fate as that of former Republican Senator Trent Lott. Back in 2002 Lott raised a ruckus by stating that if the United States had voted for Strom Thurmond [a segregationist] that it wouldn’t face all of these problems.
If you’ll remember, Lott was forced out of his position in the Senate, the same position that Reid now holds. But that was then and this is now, Michael Steele. Harry Reid is a democrat; all of their perceived sins are forgiven them. As Beth posted earlier, Reid quickly apologized and Barack Obama forgave him with no questions asked. The President said the book on the incident was closed. From Bloomberg:
“I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” Obama said yesterday. “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”
The democrats didn’t allow Trent Lott’s book to be closed until the Senator was humiliated and forced out of his leadership position and permanently labeled a racist. We know that Michael Steele asking Harry Reid to step aside is what he should do, but it’s essentially the equivalent of asking a question you know the answer to. Reid isn’t going anywhere. Until November that is.
Michael Steele was on Fox News Sunday where he said that a double standard was being applied; democrats can say racist remarks and then beg forgiveness with accolades being thrown their way about how much social justice work they’ve done over the years. Republicans who say such things are immediately labeled racist and ostracized from the party.
Not only was it Michael Steele, Harry Reid should go according to Jon Kyl of Arizona. Kyl said that Harry Reid should be treated no different than the former Senator from Mississippi. As for Reid, he has no intention of stepping down. He’d prefer to have his clock cleaned the old fashioned way at the ballot box in November. A recent poll has him down by 10 points with huge negatives.
January 10th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
shannon, Lott said something far mor controversal and mean spirited than anything Reid was punditing about. He was an Obama supporter and in his own pundit way trying to guestimate on his best approach with the populace. It might offend some who are never in the real world, but I am sure if I were to be an actor in a movie part the directors would be telling me to act this way and not that way, dress this way, and not that way. So to conflate what reid said with some big racist attack on all black Americans is just overdoing it. Debate is one thing, But hype is just lame. This is hype. Its all about taking numbers and badges for reids exemplary performance in getting Obama’s health care reform thru the predominantly white senate. Its made you all look unstable to so overreact to this unearthed up little punditry comment. This all goes to the heart of your need to spin and twist the truth to get outsized gains your not entitled too, in other words, cheating in politics.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Yeah Brian – he said ‘Happy Birthday’ to Strom Thurmond.
Meanwhile, the democrats keep wheeling in a drooling Robert Byrd and singing his praises even though he was a former leader of the KKK.
Double-standards or hypocrites?
January 10th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
can’t even an old man like robert byrd grow out of being a member of the kkk in a lifetime? labeling someone who made a choice once to belong to them who then made a choice to quit them, perhaps in total head shaking disgust as they mature and see the fuller meaning of what the world has to offer should allow them to walk free of them. I was a cub scout once, so you think all i try and do is earn cub badges now and thats it? Some people outgrow their former affiliations. Now byrd is old and infirmed to a point, so sure you can ask isn’t it time for a new face to take over the seat? I am not from the south, but I do bear some of its burdens in the troubled race and police relations of today that affect all of us. I wonder do you label one who once belonged to an organization, one for life? I think its a mistake to simple red letter people for life for something they did in youth and grew out of. isn’t that a type of racism as well, failing to see the human being inside growing and changing?
January 10th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
well if your simply going to censor what I say and hold it in moderation till you delete it, again, as this has happened before, you are simply cheating some more.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
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January 10th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
This double standard is not new but it never ceases to get under my skin when it is displayed so blatantly. Liberals have long held Republicans to a standard they cannot achieve. What is more disturbing is they hold themselves above the people they govern in the same manner. They can fly around on jets and keep the thermostat at 65 eating cheeseburgers and smoking, but the rest of us have to abandon these luxuries in the name of “Common Good”. I’ll be glad when liberalism is a distant memory.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I will be glad if you every learn to think like a fair person.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Brian, quit sitting on your thinker so that you may express a coherent thought. What Trent Lott said was twisted and distorted by the Democrats (and you) to make it sound racist. This is only to promote the tired meme that Republicans are racists and disguise the Democrats own putrid record on civil rights.
Who freed the slaves Brian? Republicans! Who created the Jim Crow laws to keep blacks segregated? Democrats!
Who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Republicans! Who repealed the 14th amendment when they gained control of congress? Democrats!
Ever heard of forty acres and a mule Brian? That was Lincoln’s plan for reperations for slavery. When he was assassinated his Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, scrapped the plan.
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, only 60% of the Democrat controlled Senate voted for it. If not for the 80% Republicans who voted for it, it never would have passed.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:23 am
Reid called Obama a “light-skinned” black man “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”
He called him the phony he is.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:30 am
what lott said was far more r’td than what reid said, and at the time I wouldn’t have advocated that be used to disbarr him from the senate anyways. It was just typical of that kind of thinking, nothing earth shattering. so why should we use that example to justify the much milder thing reid said as an excuse to boot him. its just dirty politics. besides I encourage free speech so we can really discuss things instead of hiding them in the shadows. If you got an issue, say it, and then we can debate it at least. Isn’t a good state college or university education a bit more than a few acreas and a mule? besides that should only have affected slave owners and businesses that profiteered off of slavery, not working class northern yankees. Modern civil rights, the 60′’s era etc and Kennedy were democrats as I recall and obama was helped handily by democrats, so the republicans have morphed a lot over the last 150 years. It took both parties. reid should be given free speech and the right to politically pundit things which is all he was doing to try and find the right way for obama to run and win. He helped obama get in and being a pundit he sized up his chances realistically to figure out the best plan. it worked.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:36 am
besides it wasn’t the republicans who freed the slaves other than a repub president was head of the northern union at the time. it was the blood of many apolitical young northern men that was spilt on the battle field simply because they were in the northern union army. people forget how the US lost a whooe generation and a half of young men,north and south,in the civil war which still affects us today. thousands died a day at times in close quarter musket volleys on real killing fields leaving their families and farms without any men to carry on. four times that number were permanently wounded with little hope of good medical care or rehabilitation or financial help. it was a real horror show. nobody talks about them. it wasn’t the arm chair republicans who freed the slaves at all.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:45 am
Bill Clinton trying to coax an endorsement for Hillary out of Ted Kennedy:
“This guy (Obama) would have been getting us coffee”
January 11th, 2010 at 3:47 am
Rev. Jesse Jackson, called Barack Obama a “n*gger” on television.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:58 am
“I will be glad if you every learn to think like a fair person.”
So Brian, are we all supposed to go by what your determination of fair is? What Harry Reid did was judge Obama’s qualifications by how light skinned he was and whether or not he was capable of controlling his “jive” talk.
What part of that don’t you understand?
I too will be glad when you learn how to think like a fair person.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:46 am
These Democrats can’t control themselves.
Blagojevich, referring to the president as “this guy,” says Obama was elected based simply on hope.
“What the (expletive)? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter,” Blagojevich told the magazine…
Blagojevich: I’m ‘blacker than Barack Obama’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34799784/ns/politics-more_politics
January 11th, 2010 at 5:27 am
[...] Michael Steele: Harry Reid Needs To Step Down Because Of Racist By now you all know about Harry Reid’s racist comments about then Senator Barack Obama; now RNC Chairman Michael Steele says Harry Reid needs to step down. Steele says that Reid should suffer the same fate as that of former Republican… [...]
January 11th, 2010 at 7:08 am
see how we interpret things diff? I took reidss statement as guestimating how to run obama and deal with the race issue, and its always an issue to lots of people. But isn’t obama turning out to be a good rationale President for a change? Isn’t biden a lot easier to take than cheyney? you guys have too much observer bias and it contaminates your analytic field consequently lowering your horse sense acumen.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:17 am
“But isn’t obama turning out to be a good rationale President for a change? Isn’t biden a lot easier to take than cheyney?”
No and No!!!
January 11th, 2010 at 7:44 am
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Dream on–they will have to pry Dingy Harry’s fingers off the podium and drag him out on Nov. 3, 2012. Ditto for SanFranNan in the House.
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Rocketman
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January 11th, 2010 at 8:14 am
[...] Michael Steele: Harry Reid Needs To Step Down Because Of Racist … (rightpundits.com) – January 10, 2010By now you all know about Harry Reid’s racist comments about then Senator Barack Obama; now RNC Chairman Michael Steele says Harry Reid needs to step down. Steele says that Reid should suffer the same… [...]
January 11th, 2010 at 10:05 am
They say that a pretty good test of how racist you are is to ask yourself if you have a preference for the skin color of your daughter’s future husband.
January 11th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Sense we “Light Skinned Negros without the dialect” are apparently In Vogue, let me remind you of the origins of such twisted thinking.
Take a moment and Google slave owner “Willy Lynch”. You will discover that his diabolical ideas have plagued African Americans for centuries. Reid is simply tipping his hand to show what many Whites still carry in their hearts.
President Obama has done the honorable thing to set it aside and concentrate on the pressing issues of the Presidency. This does however help my friends who claim racism is dead in the American public sector to take inventory.
Reid should be sent packing and allow his office to be taken by someone who has emerged from the middle ages!
January 11th, 2010 at 10:32 am
It’s not exactly racists. It’s just that the overly sensitive and politically correct super police have to get involved and you get instant controversy over someone’s opinion simply pointing out a fact.
Far Infrared Sauans
January 11th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Actually what Reid said was pretty much right on target.
Obama is a great orator, no doubt, with a prompter.
I’ve seen him turn on the “homey lingo” before, when its expedient to do so.
And yes, the country was ready for a black(light skinned negro) as president.
Just not as stupid as the one we ended up with.
Double standard ?
Even though I think what reid said was no big deal theres no doubt liberals love to embrace the r*ce card and use any pedatic mismention or r*cial/cultural reference to their benefit.
Pay attention black America.
You’ve been voting democrat for the last 50 years. Hows that working for ya ?
January 11th, 2010 at 11:42 am
“you guys have too much observer bias and it contaminates your analytic field consequently lowering your horse sense acumen”
And you’re so far gone into your “ANALytic” slices of the univeres that you need to make sht up no one could ever prove.
You think all your scripts of granduer can hide the fact that your about as clueless as they come when it comes to the real world and common freeking sense.
Dems are crashing, presidents ratings are diving since day one, unemployment keeps rising, inflation, terrorism a bigger threat than ever, almost every campaign promise was a lie, shoving the most massive legislation in history ever down our throats in secret…
And you come off saying something as utterly fckng r*tarded as;
“But isn’t obama turning out to be a good rationale President for a change? Isn’t biden a lot easier to take than cheyney?”
You need your head examined, seriously, no sarcasm here buddy, see a shrink.