« The UCC Constantly Gives Into Sin | Main | Huff (Showtime Original Series) »
December 07, 2004
Reid's Ignorant Attacks on Thomas
You'd think the dems would have gotten a clue. They have a clueless, arrogant, whacko as the head of the DNC, and now they have a new minority leader who is whacko as well. Daschle, the former leader, who was defeated this year, spoke of out both sides of his mouth- he was one man in S.D. and a totally different man in DC. That made him a poor leader. The new minority leader is Sen. Harry Reid from Nevada.
I don't know a thing about Reid, but his first comments in his new position paint him as the idiot he almost surely is. He semi-praised Justice Scalia, tho he claimed that there are ethics problems going on with him (that's silly), but he said the following of Clarence Thomas:
(more here)
Keeping the democratic tradition of bashing black conservatives, for merely being black conservatives alive, Reid's comments are downright ludicrous. No reasonable American would ever say Thomas is an "embarrassment" to the court, and no serious legal scholar would ever claim that Thomas' legal opinions are poorly written- his opinions are some of the best written of all the justices!
This is simply the democratic party's constant attack of blacks on the right. Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas- all three of them have been attacked by members of the democratic party time and time again. For a minority leader to come out with these ignorant statements calling Thomas an embarrassment to the court is shameful. The guy has made it clear he is nowhere near the mainstream of America, and like most democrats, he simply sees black Americans as a herd of sheep that are every year so easily herded into voting democratic for the sole reason that that's just what blacks do.
I have discussed the problem with black America and its blind loyalty to the left before. Reid gave no reason why Thomas is such an embarassment, and Tim Russert never followed up on Reid's attack (Russert is often praised as being fair, but I think he's almost always unfair...this interview proves that he won't ask the tough questions and he's really wasting his time by not doing so.) So many blacks in the U.S. vote democratic, tho so many have no idea what the democrats have supposedly done for them. They divide the issues into race- as if white and black americans have 2 completely different sets of concerns, which is just silly. There is no such thing as a black issue in the USA in 2004. There are just American issues, and sometimes we can break those down into rich problems and not-as-rich problems.
The democrats take blacks for granted, and I'm confused as to why blacks aren't fed up with it. Bush has done much for so-called minorities (I say "so-called" because I find it silly to divide by race as we do so often in this country)...home ownership among blacks is at record levels, wages for that same group are up, and the difference between what whites in general make and what minorities in general make is becoming smaller everyday. Bush's cabinet is 1/5 black, plus there are asian and hispanic Americans in cabinet level offices as well. No one can say that Bush hasn't taken this vital group into consideration. Unlike the left, the right feels that it should do all it can for ALL Americans, and that one group isn't just a given when it comes to votes.
Reid's comments show the common lack of sensitivity to black Americans that the left often shows. He refuses to see Thomas as anything but a black CONSERVATIVE. If Thomas was a leftist in his opinions and rulings, Reid would have praised him, this I guarantee...but, Thomas is, in fact, a conservative member of the court, appointed by a republican president, and in Reid's mind- that just doesn't cut it. He's clearly an embarrassment only because he's black AND conservative. It shows the sad state of affairs within the democratic party, and I don't see anything changing anytime soon.
Comments like these should be a wake up call to all black Americans. Is the democratic party really a friend, and the republicans such an enemy? Doesn't the record prove just the opposite? Doesn't the history of the republican party prove the opposite as well? Is blindly following one party because that's the status quo make any sense? Isn't it about time to start paying attention to this vital matter?
Posted by Josh at December 7, 2004 11:32 PM