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By
Carol Platt Liebau
TownHall.com
Look, it would be naive to believe that the press and the
left wing didn't hold a double standard between Democrats and Republicans when
it comes to race. Of course Harry Reid isn't going to be excoriated for his
unsavory racial comments the way Trent Lott was for his.
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”) and VP Biden's (Obama is "the first
mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a
nice-looking guy"). Question for the African American community: Shouldn't
someone be detecting a noxious stench of condescension emanating from the top
ranks of Democratic leadership about now?
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.