This is what Democratic Senator Harry Reid wanted.
Issue an apology. Then wait while his party and its supporters defend the indefensible, justify what cannot be justified, forgive what cannot be forgiven.
Reid didn’t have to wait long. After all, liberals are quick to defend wicked behavior that comes from within.
It’s the double standard in which we live.
Perhaps you don’t remember. Maybe haven’t heard of the story. It’s been a month since Reid’s unpardonable racial insults were revealed. And the protector of all things liberal, the extraneous media, quickly washed their hands of it.
So I’ll provide a refresher.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Reid’s racial commentary is found in the recently-released book, “Game Change.” Reid said that he thought Barack Obama could win the presidency because he was “light-skinned” with no “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Reid’s antediluvian convictions bring me to this conclusion. Reid believes many Americans don’t consider a candidate’s position on the issues; rather, votes are cast based on a sliding skin color scale and whether a candidate speaks using Ebonics. In “Reid’s way,” the lighter skin tone wins as long as the candidate doesn’t talk ghetto.
Could Reid be more insulting to a majority of Americans – and more wrong?
There is no place for Reid’s archaic and apocryphal assessment of the citizenry. Racist statements made by a political leader, whether the result of ignorance or arrogance, should not be defended.
But they are, if they drip from liberal lips.
Liberal Democrats didn’t call for Reid’s censure. Instead, they quickly justified Reid’s racist insults. Watching liberals react led me to three additional conclusions:
- The “It’s OK if the racism come from one of ours” hypocrisy permeates the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
- The Democratic Party keeps the race card tucked in the deck to be played when convenient.
- Conservatives opposing the liberal agenda run the risk of being called a racist for no other reason than they breathe.
There is history to support my conclusions.
Reid’s “I’m sorry” still hung in the air and already President Obama forgave him. Case closed. Never happened. Forget about it Harry. Now get back to work and ram government-controlled health care down the throats of Americans.
However, in 2002, it was (then) Senator Obama that demanded (then) Republican Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, resign after Lott made racial statements at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.
Senator Obama said the Republican Party had to “drive out” Lott and “stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”
A few years ago, an incensed Obama demanded a Republican leader resign for making racially insensitive statements. Today, a forgiving Obama tolerates racial invectives from a Democratic leader.
A teachable moment, as Barack Obama demonstrates his use of racial politics.
(Blogger’s note: It was the Republican Party led by Republicans on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that forced Lott’s resignation.)
There are more examples Democratic Party hypocrisy when it comes to race.
Racial justice didn’t seem to concern the Democratic Party when it came to Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd’s roots with the Ku Klux Klan didn’t stop him from becoming the longest serving Senator in Congress.
But disagree with liberal policies and you just might be called a racist.
Former President Jimmy Carter said people opposed President Obama because “he is a black man, that he’s African American.” Of course mounting debt and out-of-control spending have nothing to do with it. Rather than debate the issues, Carter ties the racist label to anyone that disagrees with a liberal president.
Liberals will also play the race card when expedient. The renowned race baiters, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, pulled it on Rush Limbaugh.
Earlier this year, Limbaugh contemplated applying to become a part owner of the NFL team, the St Louis Rams. Jackson and Sharpton would have none of it.
In a letter to the NFL commissioner, Jackson and Sharpton demanded Limbaugh be denied consideration. Sharpton said that Limbaugh was “divisive and “anti-NFL.” Jackson said Limbaugh “appealed to the fears of whites.”
Divisive? Are there more disruptive people than Sharpton and Jackson? And the fear I have is the Obama Administration’s attacks on my liberty and freedom. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
Yet after trying to stop a talk show host from engaging in a private venture, who is defending Harry Reid’s racist tutorial? None other than Al Sharpton.
Attack Limbaugh. Defend Reid. It’s liberal duplicity in action.
Michael Steele, a black man who is the current head of the Republican National Committee, received constant reminders about how liberals view race.
Steele served as Maryland’s Lt Governor and later ran for a Maryland Senate seat. I don’t know of another person that’s been treated more unfairly.
During various debates, liberals barraged Steele with racial slurs, calling him a “sell out” and “Uncle Tom.” It was reported that hecklers threw Oreo cookies at him.
Stepping up the attacks, opponents turned to crime. Caught, an operative of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pled guilty to attempting to fraudulently obtain Steele’s personal credit information.
Liberals didn’t condemn the crimes committed against Steele – they justified them.
Baltimore delegate, Democrat Salima Siler Marriott, reportedly said Steele got what he deserves because he is “black on the outside and white inside.”
Maryland State Senator, Democrat Lisa Gladden, justified the mistreatment of Steele with the flippant statement, “party trumps race.”
How dare Steele engage in independent thought that runs counter to the liberal mantra! And because he thinks differently, because he is a conservative, Steele felt the wrath of liberal racism.
Which brings me back to Harry Reid.
Some Republicans have called for Reid to step down as leader of the Senate because of his racially offense and bigoted statements.
I disagree. I want Senator Reid to remain a leader of the Democratic Party.
Keep Reid around to remind Americans that he represents the party of pretence and duplicity. A party that justifies racial slurs uttered by one their own. An intolerant party whose idea of racial justice is to launch racial slurs at any person, black of white, that disagrees with the liberal agenda.
Keep Reid around to remind us that when it comes to his party, it is party that trumps race.
God Bless our troops in harm’s way.
Poz
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