It all depends on what the meaning of ‘Negro’ and ‘coffee’ is.

Keep in mind, this is the same guy who said he was glad to spend billions on the new Capitol Visitors’ Center so that he wouldn’t be offended by the stench of Commoner tourists.

Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.

Out of context, I don’t see anything at all wrong with this statement. Obama would have and should have been getting them coffee a few years ago. At least then he’d be doing a job he’s actually qualified for.

I really don’t think Reid’s statement was unreasonable or even incorrect. President Obama didn’t speak like the cultural construct of a “black man” that you see on television or the movies. He just speaks like an American – although he can fake the ebonic slang when he speaks to a primarily black audience. That’s not racist to point out, I consider it praiseworthy.

Quite true. Obama’s lack of a stereotypical “black guy” accent and dialect is certainly a good thing. It would sound grossly unprofessional for a President to speak in anything remotely resembling ebonic slang, even in private, and the fact that Obama doesn’t do so shows that he’s smart enough to realize that. The only really “objectionable” thing about Reid’s statement is the fact that he used the politically incorrect word “negro”, and no doubt that’s just due to the fact that Reid is so damn old (my own grandmother often uses terms like negro, oriental, etc. just because that’s what she was brought up with).

However, there’s no getting around the fact that had a Republican said this he would be cleaning out his office by the next day.

Reid spoke the truth. Get over it.

Are Reid and Clinton racists? I doubt it.

Why? Why do you doubt it?

They’re members of the party that fought for slavery. They’re members of the party that instituted Jim Crow, segregation, ‘seperate but equal’. They party that founded the KKK.

And they say crap like this all the time.

And look–their policies keep black people poor and stupid. Yes, stupid. How could ANY intelligent person ever vote for politicians in the party that would rather have destroyed the nation instead of admitting that black people are thinking human beings? But black people just pull that Democrat lever over and over again.

And the ghettos get bigger and meaner–and ingrained as venerated tradition! A word that referred to places where jews were forced to live has now become how America’s stupid black people ‘keep it real’.

Of course Clinton and Reid are racists. Do you really believe that the Dems made a complete about face at some mythical moment in the 60′s and STILL make policies that destroy black lives?

Goddammit, ‘The Party of Slavery’ is the phrase that should follow every Republican mention of that party.

Kleagle Byrd was filibustering civil rights less than 50 years ago. Bill Clinton raised the Confederate battle flag over his statehouse–as did a plethora of democrat governors.

I know you’re a troll. Jack, but surely you don’t expect anyone to believe that the party that legitimised the abolitionist movement could ever degrade to the point where it became as bad as the party that fought to keep black people in the same class as farm animals.

That’s what you are, Jack. That’s what you champion. Deal with it.