Reid's Racial Political Profiling And The Obama's

I just recovered from smashing my head on the floor I was so taken aback by Sen.Majority leader Harry Reid's racial comments. Ahem. Cough. Whizz. Wink.

Fedora tip to Chris's Commons.

Pointing to Obama's racial appeal here's a quote from the book Game Change:

encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. 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," as he said privately.  Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.

Well. So much for liberals being much more tolerant and progressive than the rest of us. That the Democrats were and are somehow more compassionate and intellectual than the GOP is an absurd and abstract joke.

It is and will always be a myth. There are just politicians.

Note: It's interesting to note, in the last week or so, how some liberal experts don't think this to be a racial problem. They feel this was taken out of context. It was in fact, a compliment to Obama.

Either way, how would they feel if, say, I don't know, Sarah Palin said it?

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Stuff I'd like to see more investigative reporting on. Mostly on conservative blogs, there are allegations as to why the Obama's no longer have a license to practice law in Illinois (the belief is there were some serious laws broken. One blog claims extortion) and did Michelle Obama start a "patient dumping" program at the University of Chicago? Right now, all I see are reports from Fox and conservative blogs. Is this in the same category as the birther movement?

Every time I come across this sort of stuff, and there was plenty of it during Bush's reign as well, I wonder is it because it's much ado about nothing since it's not covered or is it a case of the media not curious enough to do its job?

"For the first time I'm proud of my country." That quote from Michelle will always leave me wondering.

Italics mine.