If you didn't know, Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is on the hot seat for using less than politically correct language in an attempt to praise president Barack Obama.
In A new book, “Game Change,” about the 2008 presidential campaign, Reid was reported to have given Obama his stamp approval, believing that America was ready for a black presidential candidate, certainly one like Obama "a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
His comments raised debate all across the country, even the ladies of The View had a heated debate over his turn of phrase. But it doesn't appear that he meant anything he said in any kind of negative way. This is a guy who has always stood on the side of democrats for goodness' sake.
Of course, Republicans have begun the call for Reid's resignation (one more democrat gone, the better for the GOP). However, democrats including Obama himself don't believe Reid should step down as Majority Leader.
Obama said,
"Harry Reid is a friend of mine. He has been a stalwart champion of voting rights, civil rights. This is a good man who has always been on the right side of history, for him to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me and for people to try to make hay out of that makes absolutely no sense."
Reid issued an apology to the President, who accepted wholeheartedly but the fallout won't truly be known until the conclusion of the election. In Reid's home state of Nevada, he is currently trailing the leading Republican candidates in the race for the Senate.
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