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January 15, 2010

What Harry Reid REALLY said. . .

By Cindy Allen, Managing Editor Enid News and Eagle

ENID — I don’t have much time right now to blog about the big topic of politics today -- Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comments about Obama when he was running for president.

But, I do have an observation.

As you are well aware, Reid basically said back in 2008 that Obama would be a good presidential contender because he is “light-skinned” and doesn’t speak with a “Negro dialect unless he wants to.”

Well, of course its perfectly OK with the old civil rights liberal war horses that Reid, one of their favorite Democrats, used these terms because, according to them, he was actually “praising” Obama’s run for president. He just said things in not-so-articulate way.

OK, fine. But, then, we should do what the liberal civil rights war horses would do if a conservative politician had uttered the same words about a black presidential nominee -- talked about what Reid DIDN’T say, but actually meant.

By saying what he did about Obama’s “light skin,” Reid basically said any black person with darker skin wouldn’t be as electable. And, by saying he doesn’t speak with a “Negro dialect unless he wants to” means Reid believes Obama can put on a show -- be fake,so to speak -- for the audience he wants to reach.

Seriously, I have a lot more to say on the topic of how illogical and hypocritical people are who want to agenda-ize race.

But, for the moment, just to be clear. . . .

Sen. Harry Reid believes a darker skinned black person who speaks a certain way couldn’t be elected president.

Anyone take offense to that? Anyone? Anyone?

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