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But what's remarkable is to check out the stance of the President -- the same man who was ready preemptively to accuse a Cambridge cop of racism.
In contrast to his approach to the Lott affair, President Obama is ready to forgive and forget. That's fine, if that's really his genuine reaction to this sort of thing. But then he will have to spare us his indignation if, in the future, it emerges that some Republican has made some similarly repugnant remark.
After all, surely the President wouldn't have a differerent, higher standard for racial sensitivity for his adversaries than for his friends (or his own vice president!), would he? Because that would be hypocritical.
Note the obvious similarities between Reid's comments about the President (characterizing him as a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one
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Incidentally, one need be no fan of the President's agenda -- nor an African American -- to find it deeply satisfying that those two (Biden and Reid) are the President's waterboys now.
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