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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Reid Apologizes for Remarks on Obama’s Color and ‘Dialect’

From The New York Times:
Published: January 9, 2010

WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized on Saturday for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

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What more can one say? How about "idiot"?

The Rev. Al Sharpton of New York offered his support for Mr. Reid after receiving a telephone call from him. He said that while Mr. Reid “did not select the best word choice in this instance,” the comments should not distract Congress or the White House.

Now about any Republican who might say something like that....

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