Since a lot of  liberal dems are playing politics and pulling a Roman Polanski over Harry Reid’s “negro dialect” comment (you know, having a big ol’ double standard), perhaps we should flesh out a working definition of “negro dialect” and see where that takes us..

Can we agree “negro dialect” is a euphemism for street talk? Ok, now that we have that out of the way, can we also agree Harry Reid was saying Obama is a good candidate for president because of his magic ability to toggle his street talk’ on and off?

If yes and yes, we can now agree it can be successfully argued Reid was indeed paying Obama a compliment.  This is the place where most liberal democrats are signaling the bus driver to stop. Trouble is, this aint the end of the line.  You see, in order to pay Obama this compliment, by default Reid degraded millions of African Americans. How? Because by saying Obama is a special candidate for his ability to toggle his street talk on and off, he is implying most African Americans would not be because they CAN’T.  In other words Reid is implying most black people would not be good candidates for president since they only know one dialect… negro dialect. He’s saying they can’t switch gears. He’s saying they are uneducated. If you want to take it all the way to its potential end, he’s saying they are.. well .. uncivilized. And that is an offensive, inappropriate and yes AUDACIOUS sweeping generalization that should not be falling out of the mouth of the senate majority leader of the United States!

Now Obama’s blind supporters want everyone to  move on.  The president has forgiven Reid, they reason, so by golly that should be good enough for the rest of us. What arrogance.  What nonsense. What ignorance. Again, Reid didn’t diss Obama, remember? It can be argued he actually paid him a compliment. Why the $#@% is he apologizing to Obama? He should be apologizing to the country for humiliating black folks and feeding stereotypes about white folks.  I’ll move on when I feel like moving on, thank you very much.

I’m also not fond of the way Obama handled this. Where are his handlers? Haven’t they learned the president should be sequestered whenever there is a race related gaffe in the media? How many times are they going to let him put his foot in his mouth?  It was bad enough to watch people throw shoes at Bush, but it’s even hardeer to watch Obama eat them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t prefer it this way. I like Obama and I’d like him even more if he grew a pair.  I would have preferred a more formal response like:  “Yo Harry, don’t apologize to me son, you need to apologize to the country!”

But no. Obama has closed the books on this and he now expects everyone else to, and his troops are falling right in line like they always do.  He’s even got Rev Al Sharpton on board (who miraculously  hasn’t even so much as recommended sensitivity training for Reid!)  Wow! Is Sharpton losing his edge, or is he in Obama’s pocket?  You gotta give Obama credit though; if you can get Rev Al to turn state’s you got some serious game. Oops.. please forgive that splash of negro dialect.

So why is it that some people get the gravity of Reid’s comments and some don’t? I think there’s a simple answer: politics. Obama’s staunch supporters know that if Reid was expelled for his audacious skinhead comment it would undermine Obama’s presidency greatly AND sink democrats to the level of infamous supremacist dolts like Trent Lott and other hate mongers, thus erasing the progressive PC edge they have enjoyed in the great liberal media for for so long now. Without that edge, they are no better than their barking dawgs across the aisle.

So yes, this is ALL political, and people defending Reid are SELLOUTS for their partisan loyalty. Period, End of story. Whatever.