Reid to Obama: Sorry for 'no Negro dialect' remark

Imagine the firestorm of controversy if it had been Sarah Palin (or any conservative Republican) who had uttered these words. It turns out, it is liberal dems who view the world in black and white, rich and poor, haves and have not’s. Conservatives understand that a rising tide raises all boats. It's a shame no one from the liberal "state run" fringe media will cover this....<br>
Reid to Obama: Sorry for 'no Negro dialect' remark

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying Barack Obama should seek—and could win—the White House because Obama was a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Obama in '02: 'The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott'
5:28 PM, Jan 9, 2010 · BY John McCormack

In light of President Obama's decision to forgive Harry Reid's remarks about Obama's skin color and lack of a "Negro dialect," check out what Obama said about Trent Lott in 2002:

Oh, the hypocrisy....

Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-13th), who hosted WVON's Cliff Kelley Show, challenged the Republican Party to repudiate Lott's remarks and to call for his resignation as senate leader.

"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."

--From the December 12, 2002 issue of the Chicago Defender.

And even the dem godfather....

...Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.