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Reid questions Obama’s blackness. Liberals blow a gasket in outrage.

I totally made up the latter statement, and shame on you if you fell for it!    The former, however, is true.  But if not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

Anywho, details about Reid’s racial remarks:

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect.” Obama is the nation’s first African-American president.

2008?  Why is this just now coming to light?

Reid’s comments are included in a book set to be published on Monday. “Game Change” was written by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann; the pair describe the book in interviews during Sunday’s “60 Minutes” on CBS.

Reid, facing a tough 2010 re-election bid, needs the White House’s help if he wants to keep his seat. Obama’s administration has dispatched officials on dozens of trip to buoy his bid and Obama has raised money for his campaign.

As if Reid’s numbers in NV weren’t pitiful enough as it were.

By the way, to his credit, Obama said that the Senate Majority Leader needs to be “driven out” for such racial insensitivity.

Oh yes he did say it…except that it was in 2002, when the soon-to-be-Senate Majority Leader was Trent Lott.  Lott, as sheer luck would have it, just so happens to be a Republican…which I’m sure is a total coinkidink and has jack squat to do with B.O.’s outrage back then which is conspicuously absent now.  As Cuffy points out, B.O. reacted to Reid’s racial remark a helluva lot quicker than he reacted to the Underwear Bomber.  Priorities, priorities, right?

So, to recap:  Reid makes a racially insensitive comment that would have branded any Republican as a racist.

B.O.’s one-sided forgiveness?  Check.

Sharpton’s one-sided forgiveness?  Check.

Joe Biden’s “Barry’s a clean articulate brutha” statement?  Lands him on said brutha’s ticket as VP.

The left’s favorite Klansman, Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd (D-WV), was unavailable for comment.

January 11, 2010 - Posted by crushliberalism | Al Sharpton, bigotry, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful