Harry Reid regrets

Poor Harry Reid! Not only does he have to face Nevada voters annoyed at him for ramming a despised healthcare bill through the Senate, but now he must walk the walk of shame in what was supposed to be our ‘post-racial’ nation.

‘I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,’ as he is quoted in the New York Times. ‘I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans, for my improper comments.’

Omigod, what could the senator possibly have said? Did he use what we now call the N-word? Did he speculate on the reasons for minority school performance? Did he, could he, have argued that blacks have a special talent for basketball? No, much worse than that: he seems to have told a journo that Barack Obama could become president because he is ‘light-skinned’ and has ‘no Negro dialect, unless he want[s] to have one’.

Well, duh. Here is a truth, and everyone in the United States and most of the rest of the world knows it’s the truth, but in America it simply can’t be said. ‘Improper comments’! I am reminded of the 1930s show trials in the Soviet Union, and the mea culpas, more recently, of erring apparatchiks in Saddam’s Iraq and the People’s Republic of China. Blue skies! – Dan Ford