Harry Reid is Hilarious

[Bond]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, already facing tanking poll numbers in his home state of Nevada, decided to make this remark retroactively during the 2008 presidential campaign:

... in 2008 he said he thought that Barack Obama could win the presidency because he was "light-skinned" and did not use a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Source: USA Today

Oh, how progressive of you Mr. Reid, who, coincidentally, is somehow a Mormon? That one makes sense.

Of course, his remarks unmistakably have an air of truth to them. From Huffington Post columnist Earl Ofari:

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama's light skin and non-Negro dialect stood him well with him and by implication other whites. President Obama graciously accepted his apology and applauded him as a supporter and friend. But the embattled leader spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass. The pass did not win the White House for him; money, timing, a skillful campaign, and most importantly Bush blunders and GOP disgrace ultimately tipped the White House his way. But Obama's racial pass made a difference, maybe a crucial difference.

Source: The Huffington Post

Thoughts?

[Professor S]

Of everything Harry Reid has said in the last year, this might be the least controversial.

Seriously, his comments could be about his opinion on how racially narrow minded white people are on race, not a slight against blacks or Barack's "blackness".