Sunday, January 10, 2010

Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part II

Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part II

The winds of rage from Democrats over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racist remarks about Obama have already subsided.

They were more like zephyrs, anyway, since it is widely known that Democrats can say virtually anything–racially insensitive, sedititiously un-American, drunkenly raucous– and they’re always welcomed back into the fold, into that huge Democratic tent where everyone from Jesse Jackson to Robert Byrd are “family.”

Sunday morning, less than a day after Harry’s comments hit the fan, Donna Brazile in a debate with Liz Cheney on CNN was already saying that Reid’s commendable record on civil rights affords him a pass on racial slurs and that she will campaign for his re-election.

Besides, Brazile noted, Harry was bloviating in the context of praising candidate Obama meaning, I presume, that racist comments are fine and dandy as long as the commentator makes nice to the subject of his racism.

And, as long as the commentator is a Democrat.

The capacity for Black Democrats to forgive their fellow Democrats . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1419)

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