Stephen A. Smith: If Lott had to go, Reid has to go
posted at 10:08 pm on January 11, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via the Right Scoop. As gratifying an expression of poetic justice as this is, I have to grit my teeth and side with Ramesh Ponnuru.
Republicans and conservatives are comparing Harry Reid’s comment about “Negro dialect” to Trent Lott’s remark about how we would have avoided a lot of problems if Strom Thurmond had been elected. Just as Republicans turned on Lott and forced him to give up the Senate majority leadership, they say, so Democrats should turn on Reid and make him resign his post.
But the comparison is off the mark. Lott’s comment implied that the country would have been better off keeping segregation and enforced white supremacy. What Reid said isn’t within a lightyear of that.
Yeah. Apparently Tucker Carlson came to Reid’s defense on Hannity tonight, too. As much as I’d like to club him, the most objectionable thing he said was his use of the word “negro” and evidently even that’s not all that objectionable anymore. (Although it will be tomorrow if a Republican uses it.) But don’t despair: As our friend Mr. Brown is proving tonight in the bluest of blue states, Reid’s time will come. Patience, patience. Exit question: Isn’t there another Democrat who’s getting off easy amid the uproar over Reid?
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Democrats aren’t racist, silly.
Denverslim on January 11, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Apparently Tucker Carlson came to Reid’s defense on Hannity tonight, too.
….
So much for his new site.
artist on January 11, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Democrats are monochromatic…
Seven Percent Solution on January 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM
I find Reid’s comment more funny than anything else.
And he’s a sitting duck for the election next year – I don’t want him to resign anything.
BadgerHawk on January 11, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Just a thought: try going into the office tommorrow and announcing how happy it would be to work with a light skinned african-american who’s clean and articulate without any of that negro dialect.
Better yet: try it on a college campus.
billy on January 11, 2010 at 10:15 PM
And I should clarify what I mean by funny, lest one of our lefties show up and hit the faux outrage button like a lab rat looking for a pill:
I find it funny than any national politician could say something so amazingly tone deaf. Reid officially joins Biden on the pinnacle of socially retarded people in high office.
BadgerHawk on January 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM
I’m confused. What am I supposed to call a person who was born and raised in New York, but who had two parents who were originally from South Africa, and who’s grandparents and great grandparents andgreat great grandparents were from South Africa, but were all white?
MikeA on January 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM
What are you talking about? What did Lott mean. Anyone who thinks that he was talking about segregation is downright goofy or has bought into one big lie.
CWforFreedom on January 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Agree.
JellyToast on January 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Might as well since I’m a racist teabagger.
Denverslim on January 11, 2010 at 10:19 PM
I’m confused. What am I supposed to call a person who was born and raised in New York, but who had two parents who were originally from South Africa, and who’s grandparents and great grandparents andgreat great grandparents were from South Africa, but were all white?
MikeA on January 11, 2010 at 10:18 PM
African-American crackers
txag92 on January 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Uhhh…no. Biden’s the king. Long live the king.
trapeze on January 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Well I guess I agree with Tucker. I mean, if we are ever are going to have an honest conversation on race/racism, it’s going to have to start on the right. Yes, if Lott had to go Reid should go, but the right can be the adults in the room.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Harry Reid is a lame schmuck.
fogw on January 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
It’s amazing that no one has come to Harry’s defense with the “we’re taking the comment out of context”, the usual excuse. Maybe Billy Clinton is holding onto that card.
I also mentioned this to a black friend of mine today and she was outraged by the comment.
Knucklehead on January 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM
The Dem/Lib that is getting off easy is BHO…..how come no inside baseball from his campaign?
d1carter on January 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
I don’t think Lott’s comment “implied” that. That idea was just able to be read into it.
ddrintn on January 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Oppressors?
Norman Blizter on January 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
*Oppressor
Norman Blizter on January 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
I’d say it’s our current Vice President who is getting off easy.
MayBee on January 11, 2010 at 10:25 PM
^ I should add, was able to be read into it by those who make their living sniffing around for possibly racist comments by conservatives.
ddrintn on January 11, 2010 at 10:25 PM
OT: Codepink advertising on Muslimm Brotherhood website to get Bush/Cheney!
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/01/11/code-pink-to-muslims-help-us-cleanse-our-country/#more-22748
H/T Bar @TheBlogmocracy
theTarCzar on January 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM
If Reid’s comment is harmless, Clinton’s is even more so.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM
Simply being white makes one an oppressor?
ddrintn on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
C’mon, give this guy Reid a break. He just got out of surgery. Plastic surgery, but what the hell.
GnuBreed on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Look at the comments over there… swarming with America-hating leftist fascist liberals.
BPD on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Codepink was a big fund raiser for Obama hmm…
theTarCzar on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
You keep proving me right…almost sad.
CWforFreedom on January 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Norman is a proud racist
CWforFreedom on January 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Nah, Treacher is cool.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Keep Reid right where he is. Every single non-democrat in every election across the country can run against him.
fronclynne on January 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Lott didn’t say a word about race in his praise of Thurman’s decades in the Senate while Reid mentioned race directly, referencing Obama. So, if Lott was racially ‘insensitive’ in his statement, how much more should Reid be held to the same accusation? If Lott had to go for his racial insensitivity, so should Reid.
Liam on January 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
They’re both harmless. Just tone deaf.
It has to suck going through life feeling guilty about your skin color all the time.
BadgerHawk on January 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Trent Lott said some nice words to Strom Thurmond on one of his last birthdays of his life.
And what did he say? Something like … “Hey wouldn’t it have been great if Strom had won the race for President?”
There’s not even the slightest twinge of racism in that remark. There’s not even the slightest twinge of Trent Lott suggesting that segregation was a good thing. Strom Thurmond stood for a lot more than segregation.
Republican elitist snobs still won’t defend Lott. And if there is a lesson in all this – it’s that Republicans eat their own while Democrats don’t. Bush’s condemnation of Lott was the deathknell for him.
And all because Lott tried to make a 100 year old man feel good. For crying out loud.
And yes – if Lott had to go – with his benign comments – then Reid should go too.
But I hope he doesn’t. I want this to be one more reminder to people that the Democrats are a bunch of Double Standarding corruptocrats.
And Tucker Carlson’s an idiot.
HondaV65 on January 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Why are we letting the Dims dump all their racial baggage on us? In 1948 Strom was a Democrat who was friends with Al Gore’s daddy.
Speedwagon82 on January 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Hi, Knuckle.
TXMomof3 on January 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM
AP has bought into the lies about Lott. Don’t bother.
CWforFreedom on January 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM
A Travesty brought on by BS, Lies, and WEAK Gop types. Screw em.
CWforFreedom on January 11, 2010 at 10:32 PM
I wonder why so many “conservatives”suffer from this strange compulsion to join the libs in making excuses for stupid/insensitive/racist remarks from other libs.
So Reid’s transgression isn’t as bad as Lott’s, eh, Tucker? Nice of you to say so, but I maintain that we need to hold public figures to a single standard, and if Senator Slimeball’s cracks would have gotten him flaming attacks (and calls for his resignation) from lefties if spoken by a Republican — and you know damn well they would have — than Reid deserves no less.
For too long, we’ve taken this holier-than-thou path, and it has brought us an America-hating president and a totalitarian congress.
It’s time to demand equality!
MrScribbler on January 11, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Not the least of which was George Bush. Man, did he hang Lott out to dry.
ddrintn on January 11, 2010 at 10:34 PM
That’s so true. The whole comparison is invalid if the GOP would stop letting the DNC run/heavily influence the party. Some lines are better fought on then retreated from.
Clearly. Because, um, nevermind.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Moron!!
BigWyo on January 11, 2010 at 10:36 PM
That’s BS AP/Ramesh. The keyword there is “implied.” But the implication is within the eye of the beholder. If you look at the circumstances under which Lott made his remarks, it defies reason to suggest that he supports segregation. In like manner, it would defy reason to suggest that Sen. Dodd supported racist policies and the filibustering of the 1964 Civil Rights Act when he did the very same thing ON THE SENATE FLOOR in honoring KKK Byrd’s billionth vote. Dodd said the following:
“I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment. He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation.”
Huh??? A great Senator at any moment? Does that include the moments he spent filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Right during the Civil War? Are you kidding me??? You mean he would have been right fighting for the South? And yet we heard nothing from the same Civil Rights leaders that were hootin’ and hollerin’ over Lott’s remarks. As Ed said, Reid’s remarks were more egregious because he explicitly mentioned Obama’s skin color and lack of negro dialect. AP and Ramesh know very well that this would have ended McConnell’s career.
ncconservative on January 11, 2010 at 10:39 PM
If the Democrats are such a forgiving group to pardon Dingy Harry for his Bozo-bucket racial comment, then why don’t we have these same Democrats explain why they got their undies all in a bunch when George Allen made his “macaca” statement during the last election?
I’d love to hear their answer….provided they had one.
pilamaye on January 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM
I’m not talking about the contributors…. the commenters appear to have been sent by Ariana.
BPD on January 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Amen to your comments on Lott. He was railroaded by the left and the Repubs did nothing to support him. For contrast look at how the Dems support and make excuses for Reid.
docdave on January 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM
No need to grit your teeth at all.
Racist is racist. “Racist idiocy . . . .” You got that right. Not step down? I think a racist idiot should step down. How twisted these illiberals.
Ya don`t have to know someone to want the person booted.
Besides, Reid should step down for being a damned liar anyway.
And yes we make mistakes. Does not mean we are “entitled” to them . . . . A difference here.
This vid shows the creepiness of the illiberals in general and their utter confusion. Highlights it.
Besides, race is always the dem card.
Always.
Sherman1864 on January 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM
“Lott’s comment implied that the country would have been better off keeping segregation and enforced white supremacy.”
Really? That’s what he meant? So, you guys can read minds now? I’d call that statement an outright lie but I’ll just stick with stupid and ignorant. What he “meant” in my opinion was not much of anything, just trying to make a 100 year old feel good on his birthday. To insinuate anything else is racist in and of itself.
Capitalist Infidel on January 11, 2010 at 10:41 PM
I was just joking. Some of the commentors over there I recognized for here and Ace and other right places. I’m sure their are/will be a ton of lefties to try to crap on the new place. Oh, and Killgore Trout over course.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Eh, it’s worse than what Lott said… I don’t think Lott meant what people think Lott meant… Reid’s was much more insulting…
ninjapirate on January 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Allah is omnipotent or something
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Being results-oriented like preschoolers, the Left doesn’t care how logic or memory fail them on the way to their desired conclusion. I’d also like seeing Clinton mentioned in any pundit’s column about his “…getting us coffee…” comment.
The Dems own this one all the way.
Liam on January 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Don’t forget that blacks threw a fit because the word “negro” was on the Census form.
uknowmorethanme on January 11, 2010 at 10:43 PM
I think double standard is a given in the elite corners and the MSM. I do not think that the people are all going to let it go away as easily this time. People are definitely seeing how the Democrats and the MSM are in lockstep these days.
bluemarlin on January 11, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Clinton’s wasn’t racial at all… how is he getting off easy?
DaveS on January 11, 2010 at 10:53 PM
You’re awesomely right.
I’m am soooo sick of elitist Conservatives refusing to defend Lott on this issue.
You’re exactly right about what he meant. You’re at a 100 year old man’s birthday party (a historic man by the way) … he’s at the end of his life.
What do you say?
“Hey buddy – yeah we’d have been screwed blue if you had won that election!”
Lets get serious here. It was an offhand comment meant to make a 100 year old man feel good.
HondaV65 on January 11, 2010 at 10:53 PM
As gratifying an expression of poetic justice as this is, I have to grit my teeth and side with Ramesh Ponnuru.
What are you talking about? What did Lott mean. Anyone who thinks that he was talking about segregation is downright goofy or has bought into one big lie.CWforFreedom on January 11, 201]
Yes, well, sounds like you just described AP…
fabrexe on January 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Reid must resign!!
canopfor on January 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Is anyone else disturbed that country club republicans like Allah and Ramesh Ponnuru would believe hook line and sinker the lefts propaganda about the Lott comment?
Capitalist Infidel on January 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Only if the people keep the heat on them, I would guess a serious sounding document drop comes soon that will redirect the discussion. Said document drop will turn out to be fairly innocuous once looked into.
bluemarlin on January 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Anyone remember this? Reid once rushed to declare Justice Thomas to be “an embarrassment to the Supreme Court.” When pressed for specifics, Reid declared that one of Thomas’s opinions was similar to “an eighth-grade dissertation” — far inferior, Reid said, to the opinion of Justice Scalia in the same case. Except that Thomas’s short opinion was perfectly logical . . . and Scalia hadn’t even written an opinion in the case.
Stole from Patterico
So, while our betters defend a racist because the left told them to we’ll just provide more proof that Reid is indeed a racist.
Capitalist Infidel on January 11, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Keep up the pressure. You never know what rewards you will reap.
BetseyRoss on January 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Yeah, what Reid said about Thomas is outrageous.
Spirit of 1776 on January 11, 2010 at 11:07 PM
exactly. The obtuseness over this is incredible.
rrpjr on January 11, 2010 at 11:14 PM
c’mon AP, some of the rest of us can’t go there… tucker’s a good boy and does good work and wears his hair all nice and stuff. Let’s stick to our agreements, how do we say, bilaterally…
ted c on January 11, 2010 at 11:16 PM
A cracker. A cracker with an accent, but still a cracker.
Bob's Kid on January 11, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Treacher is going to be out of a job.
csdeven on January 11, 2010 at 11:17 PM
circlin’ the wagons helps all them cowboys don’t it? Not just the one with his crank caught in the saddle ….
ted c on January 11, 2010 at 11:17 PM
No, they’re on exactly the same level– they indicate the Majority Leader of the Senate lives in a bubble where race relations run 50 years slow. That’s why Harry Reid thinks of blacks as Negroes. That’s why Trent Lott looks at a man who ran on a segregationist ticket and –as he told BET–thought of his campaign in terms of communism and street crime.
Chris_Balsz on January 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Jimmy Carter could live to be 150 and never hear anybody is sorry Reagan won.
Chris_Balsz on January 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Ol’ Harry got himself a “Tuck and ‘Tox Two-Fer”? Why, doesn’t that make him unpatriotic since he clearly intended to avoid paying the upcoming Botox Tax in ObamaCare?
ya2daup on January 11, 2010 at 11:33 PM
The only reason Reid hasn’t been ash-canned is the fact the dummie Dems can’t afford another hole in their leaky sieve. They’re up on a rock and it’s a hard place.
LarryG on January 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM
Ummm, why not just call them by their name? People don’t refer to my as “white guy” even though I am, or “Limey”, or Hitlerite” even though I’m German and Irish. The truth is, it doesn’t matter what color a person is. What matters is what a person does.
hawksruleva on January 11, 2010 at 11:39 PM
where’s the post about blago saying “i’m blacker than obama”?
or did i miss it?
homesickamerican on January 11, 2010 at 11:39 PM
What party is the chosen party of the Klan?
Which party supported slavery before and during the civil war?
(Both Northern and Southern Factions)
What party endorsed and practiced “Jim Crow” segregation laws after the civil war?
Which party was in control of the Senate and Congress in 1964? But it took a large number of the opposing party to pass the 1964 Civil Rights law?
Which party has had the most”Slippage of the Tongues”?
Answer:
DEMOCRATS
BruceB on January 11, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Reid had nothing to apologize to Obama for. He was laudatory toward Obama.
He should apologize to all the blacks who are darker than Obama, and for using the N-word.
Why are so many not reading his comment in the spirit it was delivered? Go read it carefully.
Schadenfreude on January 11, 2010 at 11:44 PM
It is worse. Lott was talking about ancient history. Maybe, at the time, Lott really did want Strom to win. But you know what, he and Strom both moved beyond race politics.
Harry Reid uses race as a tool. To him, a black politician, particularly a relatively inexperienced one like Obama, is a pawn to be used in the pursuit of power. To Reid, Obama is a House Negro, an educated supporter of the plantation owner against the wishes of the Field Negros.
If you don’t believe me, look at Obama’s record. He sided with the unions and against the black parents on vouchers. He sided against Gov. Paterson. He’s siding against Harold Ford. Hell, the Congressional Black Caucus is already asking why he isn’t doing somethign for “his people”.
And it’s not because Obama is color-blind. It’s because Obama and the people who think they control him believe that the African-American community is already locked up, so there’s no reason to pay them off. Reid’s comments betray the worst sort of manipulation, the kind that destroys men and communities in the naked pursuit of power.
hawksruleva on January 11, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Trent Lott also didn’t use an offensive terminology like ‘negro’.
This defense of Reid among conservatives is flat out ridiculous. Reid implied that he could support Obama because he was ‘light skinned’ and didn’t have a ‘negro dialect…unless he wants one”.
So if Obama was dark skinned and DID have a ‘negro dialect’ he would be unworthy of support? Judging someone by the color of their skin and treating them accordingly is absolutely RACSIM. I do not see any argument against that.
In this particular case, Reid gives Obama a pass because his skin color is ‘white enough’ and he sounds ‘white enough’.
So – he was saying nice things about Barack – while telling every dark skinned American with a ‘negro dialect’ they were unfit to be POTUS because of their skin color and they don’t talk like Ward Cleaver.
That should be offensive as hell to everyone, regardless of their skin color or political affiliation.
Mr Purple on January 11, 2010 at 11:47 PM
RACSIM = RACISM
Mr Purple on January 11, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Which party continues to woo African-Americans with empty promises, while destroying their communities with inferior education, opressive taxation, and an odius welfare system that suffocates ambition?
DEMOCRATS.
hawksruleva on January 11, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Exactly…
This is the quote from Lott:
To get that Lott supported segregation out of that quote takes quite a bit of “implication”.
Does Lott have a history of supporting segregation?
Has he introduced any bills or put forth any policies that were racist or supported segregation?
Quite frankly, I have not seen one single quote that Lott has made that states…”I support segregation”.
Remember,the Black Caucus defends Reid based on his background in supporting causes for the black community.
If we are going to use background as a basis for defense, then it appears to me there is no background of Lott supporting segregation except for some “implied” opinions from political,partisan rivals.
Thurmond had a long political career that included much more than segregation.
Lott certainly could have been more specific and stated that he did not support “all” of Thurmonds policies but to imply that he supports segregation because he gave an encouraging endorsement to an aging politician at his birthday is something that has to be “implied” or “assumed”.
We have liberals bending over backwards and turning themselves into rhetorical pretzels giving Reid the benefit of the doubt when he makes a statement that does not “assume” but states that Obama could be President because he is not as black and does not talk like those other n#gros….unless he has to.
The biggest mistake is when Republicans turned into jellyfish by forcing Lott out under the pressure of typical liberal race hustling that has turned into nothing but a political tool for the left.
Republicans need to keep the pressure on this to neuter the liberals next episode of their typical faux,selective, outrage.
Keep making the Black Caucus,liberal groups, and leadership on the hill defend these racist remarks so that the country can see them in all the hypocritical glory.
Baxter Greene on January 11, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Yea…
……….You would think a party that has a Klan member as one of it’s senior democratic senators would be a little bit more open minded about “moving beyond racial politics”.
But then moving beyond racial politics kind of goes against the race hustling that democrats enjoy so much.
Baxter Greene on January 12, 2010 at 12:04 AM
If Lott had to go, Reid goes.
Lott was saying he appreciated his friend in the Senate. He wasn’t saying segregation is good.
Democrats praise former KKK Klansman Robert Bird, (D) W. Virginia in similar fashion.
Reid was saying the only electable black is a light skinned proper English speaking one.
Reid must go.
scotash on January 12, 2010 at 12:04 AM
You’re exactly right. Lanny Davis made a great point. The way these incidents were handled says a lot about the loyalty of GOP and Democrat party members. The Dems will defend their own. The GOP is always willing to throw their own to the wolves, in order to win acceptance from… somebody.
It was the same with the Macaca un-election of George Allen. As soon as he apologized, he gave the Dems the opening to destroy him. The truth is a weapon. But apologizing is not. This was one truth that Bush understood. He would not admit defeat, or error, because doing so would have given the Dems the noose for his neck. And you know many in the GOP would’ve been helping to build the gallows, just to seem “enlightened”.
hawksruleva on January 12, 2010 at 12:11 AM
Reid implied that, if you’re black, you better dye your skin and take voice lessons to make it anywhere. You’re right AP, I can’t imagine why that would bother someone like Stephen A. Smith.
Erich66 on January 12, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Dam# that was well stated.
I agree 100%.
Baxter Greene on January 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM
And Allah here would have been first in line
Capitalist Infidel on January 12, 2010 at 1:01 AM
anyone know the last words of the video from 5:53 to 5:56
disillusioned on January 12, 2010 at 1:16 AM
If you take an African Elephant from Africa and put him in an American zoo, would be he be an African American Elephant? Or an American African Elephant? Well, is he really an African Elephant or just a plan ol’ Elephant to begin with? After all, does he even know he’s IN Africa, or America for that matter? If the zookeeper is African American, does that change anything?
I mean, c’mon. My question is about as insightful as anything the press is tossing out there these days. ;-)
cannonball on January 12, 2010 at 1:18 AM
Steven A should get his own show on FoxNews.
lavell12 on January 12, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Comparing Lott and Reid is apples and legos.
Lott’s crime was vapidly/stupidly stepping on a land mine he could have easily avoided.
Harry’s crime was swimming in machiavellian revel at the prospect of winning, by latching onto a candidate with the proper combination of flexible ‘race’ attributes to win an election, by exploiting the groundwork of The Hate and Grievance Theater™
Is Lott a racist? Maybe, maybe not.
Is Harry a racist? Damn skippy.
Wind Rider on January 12, 2010 at 2:00 AM
LOL.
johnnyU on January 12, 2010 at 4:49 AM
Harry (I just got a new liver) Reid? LOL. Yeah they all look good on their healthcare. Their doctors come over and wipe their butts for them if needed for goodness sakes.
johnnyU on January 12, 2010 at 4:52 AM
Harry Reid should resign as Majority Leader, but not for clumsily articulating political reality. He should resign for being a poor excuse of a politician who wouldn’t understand the concepts of liberty and freedom if they both came up to him and offered him coffee.
itzWicks on January 12, 2010 at 6:08 AM
lott’s statement was to make a drooling 100 year old man in his last days feel good. It was pounced on and twisted and the the meaning above inferred in order to destroy lott and further the lefts drive to destroy the Republic. The fact that so called conservatives either swallow whole the lefts narrative on history or even worse, may be aiding and abetting the left in their tactics is a sure and scarey sign. In my estimation, the left has already succeeded and it is only a matter of time until their control is complete and secure. However this country is too big to be able to handle the fullblown move to a socialist society and everything will collapse in chaos. Things are going to get very ugly in the next few years. Here’s a prediction, sooner or later don’t be surprised to hear about people with the means scouting out “vacation” homes in Australia and New Zealand.
peacenprosperity on January 12, 2010 at 6:28 AM
What is worse for the Democrats, anyway? Having a totally ignorant Senate Majority Leader who used several anachronistic terms like ‘Negro accent” and “Light skinned” or a Senate Majority Leader who uttered race based comments that some would equate with racism?
I’m going with ignorant being worse. It is much easier to define and harder to defend.
Hey Dems: Keep your seventy year old ignorant white guy in a position of leadership. Let Harry Reid the Ignorant, be the face of your party. I’m just sitting down here in little ole North Kakalacky laughing at your party trying to reconcile all this to save a guy who is getting his pink slip come November. Bawahahahahah . . .
BigAlSouth on January 12, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Oh, and hey Norman!
(Moron)
BigAlSouth on January 12, 2010 at 6:36 AM
Sen. Reid isn’t racist and Sen. Lott wasn’t waxing nostalgic for segregation. I do have a problem with Democrats embracing Sen. Byrd’s walk through life and his growth out of his prejudices but ignoring the same walk taken by Sen Thurmond. According to Jonathon Alder on Laura Ingraham yesterday, Sen. Allen could not overcome Maccawcaw (sic?) because sometime in his life he had a Confederate flag in a room. Now I have a different theory on that loss and Elizabeth Doles’ loss but that’s for a different thread. The point to remember is only Democrats can grow and learn from their mistakes. Ask them.
Cindy Munford on January 12, 2010 at 6:49 AM
VP NAACP said yesterday on Fox News that “negro” is perfectly acceptable to describe blacks.
crash72 on January 12, 2010 at 6:57 AM
Boy…it seems like the obama’s are squeaky clean huh? That’s why I’d never buy this book.
LtE126 on January 12, 2010 at 7:11 AM
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