Yes Rachel, they were quick to ding Pres.Bill Clinton in order to smear Hillary Clinton.
Reid knew exactly what he was saying and candidate Obama knew and benefited from it; and of course, he is not any unhappy and can be overtly magnanimous in accepting Sen.Reid's sham apology.

Here's another good article on this.


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Harry Reid: Obama 'Light-Skinned’ 'with No Nego Dialect'

by Mike Flynn

Saturday is my favorite day to read the newspaper. That’s the day reporters and editors print stories they know they have to cover but don’t want to get wide attention. The latest evidence for this theory is the Washington Post’s treatment of the revelation of remarks made by Sen. Harry Reid during the 2008 Presidential campaign:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.

“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” said Reid in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”

Poor choice of words? Exactly what other combination of words could Sen. Reid have used to convey his point? And what, exactly, was his point anyway? What was the relevance of these observations? We don’t have the full context for the remark in the Post’s reporting. It simply notes that Reid’s comments are revealed in a new book, “Game Change”, authored by reporters from Time and New York magazines.

Interesting that the two magazine reporters, Mark Halperin and John Heileman, have been sitting on their knowledge of Reid’s remarks for so long. Holding onto such a scoop to promote book sales would be understandable, except that the incident doesn’t even make it into the promotional blurb for the book. Just move along, nothing to see here.

Which got me thinking about Trent Lott

You remember him, right? The former Mississippi Senator was Senate Majority Leader back in 2002. Attending a birthday party for then Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. Lott made an idiotic statement:

‘When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”

As you can imagine, a firestorm ensued. Kweisi Mfume, then President of the NAACP said that Lott’s remarks were:

“the kind of callous, calculated, hateful bigotry that has no place in the halls of Congress”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said:

“It was shocking…a piercing voice through the fabric of black America”

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) went even further:

”I simply do not believe the country can today afford to have someone who has made these statements again and again be the leader of the United States Senate”

It will be curious to see if Sen. Kerry thinks the country can afford to have Sen. Reid as leader of the Senate.

More . . .

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Can Harry get any more harried?