Over the weekend it was in released excerpts of the upcoming book "Game Change," by Time magazine's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann it was revealed that during the 2008 presidential campaign Senator Harry Reid (D – Nevada) made a comment – off the record in a private conversation – that he was “wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and 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”.
Detractors of the Democrat Party and of the current administration immediately jumped on the bandwagon to label this a disgrace by Sen. Reid and howled calls for his immediate resignation.
Why? Can anyone tell me what is wrong with the above statement? I, myself, could not have said it any better!
On another note: I am getting a really, REALLY deep seated hatred for officials and elected members of the Republican Party and members of the so-called conservative base because they are no longer operating in the interest of the country as they like to claim; they are only out to destroy the country and take everyone down with them. Where is the party of the 1950s where the Republicans were seen as a bunch of ‘miserly old men who believed in conservative fiscal policies’? Where are the Republicans that believed in small-ER government and a robust market that encouraged a robust and FAIR competition?
The current Republican Party is an organization over-run by racist, war-mongering, greedy fascists who have no qualms about sending young innocent Americans to their deaths in an unnecessary war – and hell and damnation to those ‘un-Americans’ who dare to disagree with them.
They are a party that up to a few years ago PRAISED segregation champion and racist Sen. Strom Thurmond by stating that if he had been elected in his presidential bid in the 1940s America would be in a better place today.
This is a party that up to last year labeled Obama a man who “pal’d around with terrorists” and generated rumors about Obama being un-Christian and “possibly a Muslim”…not that there is anything wrong with that but they had previously labeled Muslims as ‘bad’ and ‘un-trustworthy’.
But an even bigger problem this country faces that is worse than the antics of the Republican Party is: the media.
For they are the ones that blew this story out of proportion and drew focus away from more important issues such as healthcare reform, job creation, and the obscene bonuses being awarded to employees of Wall Street banks.
And the number of media houses that carry any news on events outside the borders of the United States can be counted on one hand; the lack of diversity in the substance of the news outlets and the level of ignorance of current events in Europe, Asia and the East is appalling; it never fails to amaze me that this country is so self-involved and introverted that they forget that there is an entire world out there that has political views and economies that pose competition – and possibly a risk – to the American economy and GDP…and it’s national security.
That is until there is another attack similar to 9/11.
Or until China calls in their loans made to the American government to get them through this current economic mess we’re in.
Maybe then a factual statement made by a sitting U.S. senator may not seem such a big deal after all.
