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WASHINGTON — Is a double standard going on in the Senate?

To some Republicans, there's a clear double standard in the reactions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's racially insensitive remarks and to those of Trent Lott, who was forced out as Senate majority leader in 2002 after saying that the country might have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948.


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Yes. I think both issues we're clearly over blown.

That being said, Lott's remarks were noticeably more insensitive and most people would disagree. On the other hand, no matter how poorly worded, would many disagree with what Reid said?

How were Lott's comments so insensitive? How many "human race loving libs" still lock their doors at night and hole themselves up in their gated compounds away from "those people". Let's go into the prisons and start counting. Bottom line, Trent Lott's comments shed the light onto rich, white americans everywhere but only the libs were the ones to say "oh no, not me" when they've been in the same boat all along.

Bottom line, blacks and whites will never truly live with each other in peace and we need to quit acting like we ever will. Somebody wanna explain the lack of blacks in northwest states as compared to northern and southern states? It can't be all of us "racist southern folk" now could it?

I've got to break ranks with a lot of people on this, but quite frankly I see a difference in the Trent Lott affair and the Reid comments. I don't have my head in the sand over what Lott was talking about. That being said, I didn't think he should have lost his leadership position over it, and I don't think Reid should lose his.

Yes, there is a double standard, and the Democrats are being hypocrites. So what else is new? OF COURSE they are going to trot out Al Sharpton to protect the guy. Sharpton is the biggest "HOUSE/PORCH YOU KNOW WHAT" in this country. He peddles government dependency for an extra slice of the pie for himself. He is nothing more than Toby on the porch, taking largesse from the Massa (the Democratic Party) and in return he keeps the field hands on the plantation with the occasional extra clothes and dancin' on Sattidays.

All that being said, this is a golden opportunity to point out the discrepancy, and then move on and shut up about it. The Republican Party can choose to harp over this crap, making them no better than the Democrats, or they can register their disapproval and then move on to more important things. It is a waste of time to go after Harry Reid, because he is protected by a COngressional majority, and no amount of yelling and screaming is going to change it. Quite frankly, I don't think what he said was that bad, anyway. He was simply saying what every goddamn person in this country was thinking anyway. It is stupid to be so afraid of telling the truth.

CID1990 wrote:I've got to break ranks with a lot of people on this, but quite frankly I see a difference in the Trent Lott affair and the Reid comments. I don't have my head in the sand over what Lott was talking about. That being said, I didn't think he should have lost his leadership position over it, and I don't think Reid should lose his.

Yes, there is a double standard, and the Democrats are being hypocrites. So what else is new? OF COURSE they are going to trot out Al Sharpton to protect the guy. Sharpton is the biggest "HOUSE/PORCH YOU KNOW WHAT" in this country. He peddles government dependency for an extra slice of the pie for himself. He is nothing more than Toby on the porch, taking largesse from the Massa (the Democratic Party) and in return he keeps the field hands on the plantation with the occasional extra clothes and dancin' on Sattidays.

All that being said, this is a golden opportunity to point out the discrepancy, and then move on and shut up about it. The Republican Party can choose to harp over this crap, making them no better than the Democrats, or they can register their disapproval and then move on to more important things. It is a waste of time to go after Harry Reid, because he is protected by a COngressional majority, and no amount of yelling and screaming is going to change it. Quite frankly, I don't think what he said was that bad, anyway. He was simply saying what every goddamn person in this country was thinking anyway. It is stupid to be so afraid of telling the truth.

I guess it isn't as obvious as it seems to me. It's not about what he said. He was just pointing out the obvious. It's the reaction of the Democrats. There can be no denial that if a leader of the Republican party made the same comments, with the same good intentions, there would be a march of some sort, Reid and Pelosi would be calling for their head, and Obama would be less than so gracious. Hypocrisy. Again, it was supposed to be different this time, right? Well, so far it's a huge failure, and I don't see it getting any better. It's all bullshit.

And I will point out that I am not a member of the Republican party. If truth be known, I am probably farther to the true left than anyone on this board.

What I didn't like is Obama's comment that Reid "is on the right side of the issues" - like that somehow makes the situation better if you start with the premise that Reid's comments were anti-black (which they weren't). What Obama is basically saying is that because he is a democrat, he automatically gets a pass. It's nothing new. During the 2003 recall election in California Gray Davis made a comment that you should not be able to be the governer of California unless you could pronounce the name of the state properly. You can't tell me if a republican said that he or she would not be tarred and feathered by the PC police.

This situation demonstrates both that PC is out-of-control (Reid's comment is really anti-white) and that there's a double standard that donks will always get the benefit of the doubt in these type of situations whereas republicans will be asked to resign. It sucks.

Democrats don't have to have morals. They don't campaign on a morals platform, remember?

death dealer wrote:

CID1990 wrote:I've got to break ranks with a lot of people on this, but quite frankly I see a difference in the Trent Lott affair and the Reid comments. I don't have my head in the sand over what Lott was talking about. That being said, I didn't think he should have lost his leadership position over it, and I don't think Reid should lose his.

Yes, there is a double standard, and the Democrats are being hypocrites. So what else is new? OF COURSE they are going to trot out Al Sharpton to protect the guy. Sharpton is the biggest "HOUSE/PORCH YOU KNOW WHAT" in this country. He peddles government dependency for an extra slice of the pie for himself. He is nothing more than Toby on the porch, taking largesse from the Massa (the Democratic Party) and in return he keeps the field hands on the plantation with the occasional extra clothes and dancin' on Sattidays.

All that being said, this is a golden opportunity to point out the discrepancy, and then move on and shut up about it. The Republican Party can choose to harp over this crap, making them no better than the Democrats, or they can register their disapproval and then move on to more important things. It is a waste of time to go after Harry Reid, because he is protected by a COngressional majority, and no amount of yelling and screaming is going to change it. Quite frankly, I don't think what he said was that bad, anyway. He was simply saying what every goddamn person in this country was thinking anyway. It is stupid to be so afraid of telling the truth.

I guess it isn't as obvious as it seems to me. It's not about what he said. He was just pointing out the obvious. It's the reaction of the Democrats. There can be no denial that if a leader of the Republican party made the same comments, with the same good intentions, there would be a march of some sort, Reid and Pelosi would be calling for their head, and Obama would be less than so gracious. Hypocrisy. Again, it was supposed to be different this time, right? Well, so far it's a huge failure, and I don't see it getting any better. It's all bullshit.

And I will point out that I am not a member of the Republican party. If truth be known, I am probably farther to the true left than anyone on this board.

Nailed it....

Appaholic wrote:

death dealer wrote: I guess it isn't as obvious as it seems to me. It's not about what he said. He was just pointing out the obvious. It's the reaction of the Democrats. There can be no denial that if a leader of the Republican party made the same comments, with the same good intentions, there would be a march of some sort, Reid and Pelosi would be calling for their head, and Obama would be less than so gracious. Hypocrisy. Again, it was supposed to be different this time, right? Well, so far it's a huge failure, and I don't see it getting any better. It's all bullshit.

And I will point out that I am not a member of the Republican party. If truth be known, I am probably farther to the true left than anyone on this board.

Nailed it....

As death dealer usually does...