Obama forgives Harry Reid’s racist comments, yet in 2002 demanded Trent Lott’s ouster

obama_snobAs the revelations of Harry Reid’s racist negro dialect remark spreads like wildfire around the ‘net, Harry Reid was forced to call up and apologize to Obama in Saturday afternoon. Obama seemed to have no problem with Reid’s racism:

“I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” Obama said in a written statement. “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”

Yet in 2002, as the Washington Examiner notes, then Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., was hounded out of his majority leader position after he remarked favorably on former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1948 run for president on a segregationist third-party line. Obama whined and complained at the time and said this:

“It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator (Thurmond) 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.”

Hypocrisy much Obama?

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January 9, 2010 · Filed Under General Politics


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  • http://beyond-the-political-spectrum.blogspot.com/ Beyond-The-Political-Spectrum.blogspot

    As an African-American, it’s sad that we’ve become a nation of PC crybabies! We have become so emotionally-thin-skinned that virtually anyone can say anything at anytime and “offend” anybody’s “sensitivities.” I was not offended by Reid’s statement, and I thought the uproar over Don Imus’ remarks were blown way out of proportion! “Freedom of Speech” means the free and uninhibited exchange of ideas, even those we may not agree with. However, can we really compare the remarks of Reid to Lott?