When I first heard this story, I did not think it was worth spending time writing about. Then the Republicans got ahold of it. Reid said something regarding candidate Obama during the 2008 election that used questionable wordage, but was not malicious. The quote follows:
Reid “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ as he later put it privately.”
So now he’s apologizing, and apologizing, and apologizing. President Obama had forgiven him. Jessie Jackson has forgiven him. Al Sharpton has forgiven him. Every prominent black political figure has forgiven him (he called each one).
In fact, the only people who are upset are the Republicans. They are calling for him to resign. hm, sounds fishy.
B T Dub: The author of the book is a republican who still strongly supports Strom Thurmond.
