January 11, 2010

Eric Holder, Dems Turn Their Bigoted Eyes to You

By Matt May
Because the current administration's existence seems infinite, it is striking to note that not even a calendar year has passed since Attorney General Eric Holder declared the United States "a nation of cowards," and that Americans "simply do not talk enough with each other about race."Well, if excerpts from a newly published book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are to be believed, then the Democratic Party is certainly in need of some straight race talk among its own. While it is tempting to dismiss the book as a compendium of axe-grinding gossip and rumor (Steve Schmidt is listed as a credible source), Sen. Harry Reid has already apologized for remarks appearing in the book which he thought were made in private regarding Barack Obama's lack of "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Although waiting days and days before commenting on the airline passenger with a bomb in his Super-Jihadist underoos (and then only calling him a...(Read Full Article)