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Home Front: Politix
Steele calls Sen. Reid's slavery remark 'ignorant'
2009-12-09
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is renewing his demand that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologize for likening health care overhaul opponents to those who resisted putting an end to slavery.

The Nevada Democrat made the assertion in a statement Monday as the Senate worked on legislation to remake the health care system, President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

Steele said on CBS's "The Early Show" Tuesday "it was an ignorant moment for Harry Reid." He said that when Democrats get in trouble, "they play that race card, that slavery card, that civil rights card." Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley, responded to Steele's initial statement Monday by calling his remarks "feigned outrage."
Posted by:Fred

#5  CF, that's because the country club Trunks think history is self evident and have failed for generations to hammer home the message. Another reason for that in-party group to be led to the door.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-12-09 09:06  

#4  Proof once again that one should pick his own cotton. It simply never ends.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-12-09 08:00  

#3  Ried knows that 95% of the general population think [thanks to our noneducation system and the media] that it was the Democrats who freed the slaves, gave them Civil Rights and Voting Rights, etc... And the Trunks who want to enslave everyone.

Heck I thought so until a few years ago. Kennedy is still often given credit for the Civil Rights Act.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-12-09 06:55  

#2  It's not the Trunks who are trying to reduce the citizenry to serfs of the state and one party. Note to Reid, being in the party that opposed the Civil War through which the Trunks got the 13th [end involuntary servitude], 14th [equal rights before the law] and 15th [voting rights] Amendments added to the Constitution, shows either gross ignorance of the historical record or pathetic partisanship in which no lie is unreasonable [or in your case, both].
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-12-09 05:09  

#1  All non-democrats and non-democratic thinking is racist.... isn't it?
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-12-09 01:49  

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