by Katrina Douglas
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December 9, 2009

Senator McCain Rips Democrats for Double Standard in Reid Comments

January 12, 2010 04:06 PM UTC
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Senator John McCain, ripped into Democrats for having a double standard over racist remarks made by Sen. Harry Reid.  Sen. Reid is up for re-election, but it is not a run away.  He has some serious competition.

Jay Leno made fun of Harry Reid by having Kevin Eubanks, and another black man in the audience have their cell phones ring with (Harry Reid) supposedly on the line, apologizing.

According to CNN, "The GOP's 2008 presidential candidate decried Tuesday what he called a "stunning double standard" between the treatment of a top Democrat and Republican leader caught making racially insensitive remarks.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona ripped the decision among most leading Democrats largely to dismiss the recent revelation that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said in 2008 that Barack Obama could succeed as a black presidential candidate partly because of his "light-skinned" appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'"

Since the release of the new book, "Game Change" old wounds have opened up, and maybe President Obama has forgiven Reid, the GOP cannot and will not forget the treatmen to Republicans who have made insensitive remarks getting slammed. 

The Democrats cannot have it both ways.  If racist remarks are wrong, for one candidate than the remarks are hurtful for all candidates, and in this day and age, such remarks as made by Sen. Reid are unthinkable.

So, is there a double standard?  It would appear so, and maybe, Senator Harry Reid should just go away quietly, and stop apologizing.  It's just that he said what he said, and he meant what he said, or he wouldn't have said it.  So?

CNN reports that the GOP critics have noted that former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, lost his post as Senate majority leader in 2002 after saying that the nation would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 when he ran on a pro-segregation platform as a Dixiecrat.

"There has been a "stunning double standard as far as the treatment of Sen. Lott, who also made unfortunate and inopportune remarks, and the treatment of Harry Reid by the liberal left," McCain said on NBC's "Today" show."

 

 

Comments: 17

Kevin L. Jan 12, 2010, 4:09pm UTC
What is our country coming to?
Loquacious Linda Jan 12, 2010, 4:21pm UTC
It's time for McCain to go too. We've had enough of these career politicians stealing from us and only doing what they are told (intimidation is alive and well in the halls of congress).
Kevin L. Jan 12, 2010, 4:27pm UTC
The pork fest that we call Congress needs to be held accountable to the people of America. As well as the corruption taking place on Wall Street. The people must rise above the chatter and demand change!

Linda Keep Posting...

Thanks for the article Kent!

Bicker, Bicker, Bicker -The creation of smoke and mirrors to cloud reality - before long no one will know which way up is...and everyone will be above the law. Can someone tell me how to get back to Main Street.
Mooch -. Jan 12, 2010, 4:26pm UTC
McCaiin needs to go, Mikulski needs to go, Pelosi needs to go, they all need to go....

But yes there is a double standard in politics, always will be....and whoever has the office has the edge.
Obama pulled the race card enough during the campaign to make it known htat's how he would win the election. I do not and never will like him as a politician, and I hope I never meet him as a person.

I do not like McCain, however, he still blames Palin for 'his loss' when it was the fact he tried to do what he was told to do, look more liberal and that's what cost him the election.

Mooch
Col. George W. Jan 12, 2010, 4:29pm UTC
It would be nice to have a complete turn over in Congress a couple of times, one in 2010 and again in 2012, All offices up for re-election. Maybe then they will realize who is in chagre.
Col. George W. Jan 12, 2010, 4:27pm UTC
McCain has a good point, Reid needs to go and he soon will anyway since he will not get re-elected.
Kevin L. Jan 12, 2010, 4:30pm UTC
Bicker, Bicker, Bicker - see my above post.

This has nothing to do with what was said and who said it - smoke and mirrors and the clouding of reality. Before long the average American will not know who is who or what is what! The Game is being played with the precision of a master marksmen.
Char H. Jan 14, 2010, 12:17am UTC
Before long the average American will not know who is who or what is what! As you get older, you realize they all talk the talk while they are campaigning, Dems and Reps too. Then they get into office, and somehow it looks like business as usual. Usual liberal, or usual conservative, both not ready to serve all the people together. The people hoped this time they would work together-NOT.
Col. George W. Jan 14, 2010, 1:00am UTC
That's the reason to go by their record of how they vote and what they do as well as what they write or say when not on the campaign trail. It they are campaigning they are lieing. Never vote for someone who mentions the New World Order in a good light, it's a neocon and has no interest in this country only world government.
Rory H. Jan 12, 2010, 6:59pm UTC
All Senator Reid's activities is a side show. Meant to delay legislation and disenfranchise the Black base in his election. Those same hypocrites and bigots have no problem bringing up ever increasingly white hick stereotypes of pregnant mom's with already two kids and the third on the way with no intention of working or the Corbin, Ky. IHOP interview (supposedly) of a toothless guy who is too ignorant to know and too lazy to care. The white hick bashing has been used in my State of Kentucky since the 1900's to OK the stealing of folk's land from under them, the polluting of our streams and the under paying of miners for years.

So, I see Reid's choice of word's bad, but what he said accurate. "Obama would be electable, because he didn't fit the black stereotype, which would have made him less electable to some. The same thinking occurs every day in business a young boy comes in wearing a little scruff on his face. He is called in and told that he would be more presentable if he shaved and please shave. (Clean shaven = good guy stereotype created by Gillette and Hollywood) a concept that is part of our culture today.

I am getting really peeved about is the continuous "White Hick" bashing coming from the right wing lie makers showing anyone white hicks as white trash!. Folks from Kentucky, Tennessee, North & South Carolina and Pennsylvania as this stereotype. They think they are safe if they use whites, but bigotry is bigotry, no matter who it is!

Thank you for this Post
shelvon banks Jan 12, 2010, 8:54pm UTC
this is how it works, divide and conquer. The folks in positions of power play all of the middle class and lower class people of all colors against each other while they do nothing and steal all of the $. This has been the same throughout the history of this planet and i do not see it changing until the majority of Americans ( non-rich ) ban together and stop letting them do this to us. We should not have to beg for basic human rights.
Col. George W. Jan 14, 2010, 1:02am UTC
Exactly Shelvon.
Rude D. Jan 12, 2010, 8:24pm UTC
Wha the ????

Is this the same John McCain who favored the Jewish equivalent of a Swastica, the Confederate Battle flag.

The same Senator who opposed MLK day????
Not only that, McCain Supported Republican AZ Governor’s Decision To Rescind MLK Holiday?

Now he is appaled by Reid's comments?
HE MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, Republicans are looking out for the black man?
Marilyn M. Jan 12, 2010, 11:02pm UTC
He's absolutely right. There is a double standard.
Baby J. Jan 13, 2010, 9:37am UTC
Double Standard? McCain was certainly quiet when his running mate was spewing lies about "death panels" and "stopping the bridge to nowhere". Before McCain starts opening his mouth, maybe he can explain how he could select a running mate that did not know the difference between North and South Korea, who did not know role of the FED, who believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. When it comes to double standards McCain has plenty to keep quiet about.
Col. George W. Jan 14, 2010, 1:07am UTC
That's not double standards Baby, that is plain ordinary dumb.
Spencer T. Jan 14, 2010, 7:12am UTC
Anyone who feels that what Reid said and what happened to Trent Lott are the same has a comprehension problem. How in the world can one compare a person wishing we lived under a segregationist government with one who told the truth about American's race situation.

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