The Racial Hypocrisy of the Democrats

The latest Harry Reid flap over his 2008 remarks about Barack Obama are once again showing that when it comes to racial matters, the Democrats are phonies and hypocrites. It all goes back to the remarks Trent Lott made on the occasion of Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday (that the country would have been a whole lot better off had Thurmond been president way a half century ago when Thurmond-then a segregationist-ran as a Dixiecrat.) Lott was forced to resign from his position in the midst of a media circus and Democrat outrage.)

This is what Barack Obama had to say about Lott back then:

“It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do,” said Obama.
He said: “The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”

And now regarding Reid?

"As far as I am concerned, the book is closed."

Trent Lott said nothing about the segregation issue in his botched compliment to Thurmond. Obama was making an inference. The important thing here is that when it comes to protecting fellow Democrats, it doesn't matter what Reid had said. Reid could have used the N-word in referring to Obama, and the Dems-including the hypocritical Black Congressional Caucus and the Democratic-supporting NAACP would find a way to downplay it. It's only when Republicans make a stupid, ill-advised statement that all this racial outrage emerges.

Ditto that for ex-President Bill Clinton. The same book ("Game Change") that outs Reid's comments is also reporting that when Bill Clinton was pleading for Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillary for president, he told the Senator that "he (Obama) would have been serving us coffee a few years ago." Imagine if a Republican had made such an offensive comment. There would have been outrage and calls for his/her head. Not so with Clinton. All you hear is, "it's time to move on", which I have already heard from one Democrat whose name I forget. (That was referring to Reid).

Will Harry Reid resign? Of course not. Why not? He doesn't have to.