Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot

To be fair, Harry Reid — the way we look at dingy Harry’s statement that Obama spoke with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one, is as a cynical manipulative politician. He meant this with all due respect for Obama. Reid was complimenting Obama’s ability to act a part, to play a role, when it was politically expedient. See, in Harry Reid’s view and in Joe Biden’s view, the problem with Jesse Jackson and Reverend Shapton as Democrat presidential candidates was that they had black dialect, and they weren’t light-skinned enough. That was a problem. But Obama comes along — he’s light-skinned and when he doesn’t want to he doesn’t have a Negro dialect, and so that’s a home run. He was complimenting Obama’s being able to hide his half-blackness.