By Douglas V. Gibbs
In 2002 Trent Lott was the U.S. Senate Majority leader. He attended Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party that year. Strom Thurmond had been in the Senate nearly 48 years, and was fixing to retire. Thurmond's political career included a run for president in 1948, during which time he was a segregationist.
Lott, asked to say something about Strom did what anyone does at the birthday party of another person. He tried to say something nice, not realizing the firestorm he was about to unleash. Trent Lott said in 2002: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
He was referring to the continuance of many of FDR's socialist programs through the Truman Presidency.
The Democrat Party leaped on Lott's statement, calling it racist and insensitive because of Strom Thurmond's segregationist history. Jesse Jackson, and other Black leaders, called for Lott's dismissal. Even a state senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, had harsh words for Trent Lott, saying: "It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do."
Under the pressure from the Left to get rid of Lott, the Republican Party acquiesced.
Fast forward to a book: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - by veteran journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
The book gives insight to the political game the outside world rarely gets a chance to see. The truth about Palin's dislike of the McCain campaign's control over her is discussed, as is racist statements by Democrats.
The racist comments discussed in the book by Democrats, if uttered by a Republican, would create a firestorm as did Lott's statement. Except the comments by the Democrats seem to have more of a racial motivation than Lott's was.
The Harry Reid comment was pretty blatant in its racist overtones. He referred to Barack Obama early in his presidential campaign as a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect." Forget Lott for a moment. Could you imagine what would have happened if a Republican had said such a thing? The Democrats would have been calling for the head of such a member of the GOP.
How about Bill Clinton's remark to Ted Kennedy in reference to Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."
Would Democrats have let a Republican live that one down? I'm surprised Sharpton has come out and said something against Clinton for his tasteless remark.
Then there is Rod Blagojevich's comment in Esquire Magazine: "I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little Laundromat in a black community not far from where he lived. I saw it all growing up."
These statements are testimony to the fact that the Democrats are liars and have racist tendencies. They project their racism onto Republicans when in reality the Democrats are truly the racists. They are intellectually dishonest, and apply a double standard by shrugging off these remarks by Democrats when they know damn-well that if a Republican had dared to say any of it, his head would have been on a stick.
Then, to further show how racist the left is, an aide, in defense of Reid's "light skinned - negro dialect" comment, says: "There's not that many African-Americans in the state anyway."
This is how these people think. They put Americans into groups. They talk about how they are able to gain the black votes, and the Hispanic votes, and so on. They don't get it. They are the racists, and they have been all along. The Democrat Party still has a plantation mentality, while the Right is less race conscious, and more about doing what is best for "Americans" - as a whole.
Obama said something about how he accepts Reid's apology because of Harry's history on "social justice." If the Left's "social justice" is so awesome, then how come in the big cities, where the local governments have been decidedly liberal, and where liberal entitlement programs have been in place for decades, is it that poverty has not been eliminated? Why is it that in the inner-cities people aren't any better off? Why is it that the poverty-stricken in these liberal areas of the country have increased in number, and the misery persists?
While the Democrats separate Americans into groups, take away our drive for self-reliance with socialist entitlement programs, and foster racism while talking out of the other sides of their mouths like they are some kind of saints to the races, the conservatives have been treating everyone as Americans, regardless of color, race, or culture. It was a conservative movement that was pushing for the abolition of slavery, it was Republicans that were overwhelmingly voting for civil rights legislation while the Democrats were filibustering such bills until finally in the sixties they gave in, and it is the Right that has continually treated all Americans as Americans, refusing to foster the same kind of racism the Democrats have.
And then, while claiming to be above the fray, the Democrats have been caught being who they really are: Racists.
Sotomayor claimed she would be a better judge than a white male because of her Hispanic heritage, Reid claims Obama did well because he is "light skinned" and doesn't use a "negro dialect," Bill Clinton says Obama would have been fetching his coffee only a decade before, and Blago claims he's blacker than Obama because of his neighborhood.
And everyone looks the other way because they apologized.
Lott's remark wasn't even remotely racist, and he apologized, and he lost everything.
Racial hypocrisy, and a double standard.
This is why Americans will be kicking the Democrats out of power in November.
The People are sick of the lies, the hypocrisy, the double-standards, and the Marxism.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Lott apologizes for Thurmond comment - CNN
Obama in '02: 'The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott' - Weekly Standard
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - Amazon
Reid's 'no Negro dialect' remarks about Obama - American Thinker
Sharpton: Clinton 'Coffee' Remark About Obama 'Disturbing' - Fox News
Blagojevich: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama' - CBS News Chicago
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