If Harry “stinky” Reid was a republican, would dems be calling for him to resign for his racists comments?
Democrats on Sunday defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his private remarks during the 2008 campaign describing then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect.”
Something similar happened to Trent Lott and you called for him to resign. Why the double standard?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_go_co/us_obama_reid_32
Trent Lott’s:
Lott had cheered the 1948 presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond — a segregationist Democrat opposing President Harry Truman — during a 100th birthday tribute to Thurmond, by then a longtime Republican senator.
Lott, R-Miss., eventually apologized but resigned nearly two weeks later after a growing number of Republicans questioned his effectiveness, especially after he told Black Entertainment Television he supported affirmative action, no longer opposed the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and would back programs aimed at minorities. He resigned from the Senate in 2007.
So why can Democrats make racist remarks and be forgiven but Republican’s cannot? Can someone explain this to me?
Democrats defend Stinky Reid’s comments.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/10/top-democrat-defends-reid/?feat=home_headlines
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