"Harry Reid, Byrds of a Feather!!"

Since the beginning of the Barack Obama administration any person who opposes a position of Obama has been branded un-American or a racist. This has become standard practice among "demoncrats" used in an attempt to separate honest dissenters from what people consider the "norm". A few years ago Trent Lott lost his position in congress because he made a remark at the 100th. birthday of Strom Thurmond's presidential bid fifty years earlier. It was an attempt to make a 100 year old man feel good and it cost Lott his career. Last week "Dingy" Harry Reid was caught with his pants down. In a new book Reid was quoted as saying Americans could accept Obama as a viable presidential candidate because he was "light-skinned, and spoke without a Negro dialect, unless he wanted to". Thus far there has been a deluge of comments from both parties over, some saying it was racist and others saying it was not a big deal. I'll let you guess which party said what.I don't know how many of you know the name Robert Byrd, he is the oldest senator in Washington, serving since 1959. Among the senate democrats he is known as an "elder statesman". As an elder in my church I am a man who must live a transparent and exemplary life, as I am supposed to set a standard for other members of our congregation. Senator Byrd, the "Elder" is a man with a very questionable past which the democrats happily ignore. At the age of 24 Mr. Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan, he held the "offices" of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops, obviously not just a flunky, but a member of some power and influence in the Klan. He is quoted as saying"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side...Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimens from the wilds". Senator Byrd happily sits in the senate today, forgiven by his fellow democrats for his "faux paux" of previous years. Now we have Harry Reid again showing what is okay for democrats is different than what is okay for republicans. This hypocrisy among the democrats is enough to turn the stomachs of those of us who are tired of the labeling of honest dissenters as racists when they refuse to see the blatant racism that it tolerated in their own party. Mr. Obama has accepted Reid's apology with little comment. I wonder if an apology would be so freely accepted if this statement was made by a republican senator? The real man is the one who utters under his breath and in the privacy of close companions. Who is Harry Reid? Maybe he is the next "Elder Statesman"!