As is shown by my April 9, 2008, post entitled Kerr's Excellent Adventure with Lightweight Harry Reid (which can be accessed in the Older Posts section below) few, if any, people detest our sorry senate majority leader more than I do.
However Senator Reid currently is receiving a good bit of undeserved cudgeling for remarks he made in the course of the nation's most recent presidential campaign. He is being berated for having referred to certain racial and ethnic characteristics of Barack Obama.
The resulting uproar did serve a couple of useful purpose: It again demonstrated that liberals and Democrats circle the wagons and rush to defend any of their number who has said or done something that is perceived as being untoward -- a marked contrast to conservatives and Republicans who in such situations quickly cast the transgressor from their ranks and distance themselves from him. The incident also illustrates again the continuing social and political unacceptability of publicly discussing any racial matters openly and honestly.
Notwithstanding his apology for his utterances, there was nothing whatsoever wrong with the remarks by Senator Reid that started the uproar, which at this writing shows no signs of abating. What the otherwise loathsome Lightweight Harry said in this instance was accurate, relevant to the Obama candidacy, and, except for being politically incorrect, unobjectionable.
However Senator Reid currently is receiving a good bit of undeserved cudgeling for remarks he made in the course of the nation's most recent presidential campaign. He is being berated for having referred to certain racial and ethnic characteristics of Barack Obama.
The resulting uproar did serve a couple of useful purpose: It again demonstrated that liberals and Democrats circle the wagons and rush to defend any of their number who has said or done something that is perceived as being untoward -- a marked contrast to conservatives and Republicans who in such situations quickly cast the transgressor from their ranks and distance themselves from him. The incident also illustrates again the continuing social and political unacceptability of publicly discussing any racial matters openly and honestly.
Notwithstanding his apology for his utterances, there was nothing whatsoever wrong with the remarks by Senator Reid that started the uproar, which at this writing shows no signs of abating. What the otherwise loathsome Lightweight Harry said in this instance was accurate, relevant to the Obama candidacy, and, except for being politically incorrect, unobjectionable.
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