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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:16:32 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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"RGrew176" wrote in message
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'Harry[_2_ Wrote:
;774817']What ever happened after his terrible remarks?

Not much. The dems are rallying around him. It's OK for them to make
such comments but if you sit on the other side of the aisle, heaven
help you.


Come on... he said something in a clumsy way that's probably got some
truth
to it. He's got a long history of civil rights.

I think what Clinton said (about serving coffee) was much more
mean-spirited, and he should have known better.


I agree. Reid probably talks a lot more candidly around his white
friends back in Nevada and this just slipped out. It wasn't really
that long ago that Nevada was Jim Crow. About as long ago as Alabama.


I don't think it was a matter of being more or less candid. I think it was
just a poor choice of words. If you're in someone's mobile home, would you
go out of your way to claim that the white trash who live in trailer are
more prone to tornado attacks or would you say that people who live in
mobile homes are more prone to tornado attacks? See the difference. He was
inarticulate.

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