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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Insensitive? A Democrat?!

Of interest in the latest Mike Allen Politico piece is his treatment of the admission by Reid that he spoke of the current president in a style largely considered condescending and insulting to Americans of African descent.
The book reports that Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had referred privately to Barack Obama early in his campaign as a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

True enough, but it certainly steps on the toes of the pc establishment. It's as bad as Joe Biden declaring Barrack Obama was the first well spoken, clean, african-american to run for president. Didn't go over too well with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and their rainbow coalition. Time for some major back-tracking.
Reid issued a statement of apology Saturday: “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans, for my improper comments. I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama’s legislative agenda.

Nice. Now time for the obligatory testimonial:
"Moreover, throughout my career, from efforts to integrate the Las Vegas strip and the gaming industry to opposing radical judges and promoting diversity in the Senate, I have worked hard to advance issues important to the African-American community.”

Don't worry Harry, your hooked up. No one's going to care.

21 comments:

  1. To be fair, it seems that Reid was actually discussing the acceptability of an African-American candidate to the voting public, in a style that is condescending and insulting to Americans.
    Cathy

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  2. The italics worked! :)

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  3. And the bold! I'm on a roll! Thanks, Nicholas.

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  4. Exactly. I look at Barrack Obama as a candidate for President. Harry looks at him as the black candidate for president.

    Nice job at the fancy styling. Now all you need is a link. That is a little more awkward. I can't write it out because the angle brackets will implement the instructions. Try this:

    Figure out what you want your link word or phrase to be, then before it type the angle bracket (<) followed by a href= Then paste in the address from the address line of the page, then the closing angle bracket (>). That gives you the page link. To close the link phrase you go behind the link word and close out the instruction with /a inside a pair of angle brackets, and you are link city, baby!

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  5. Woo-hoo!!
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    Woo-hoo Update -- This fancy stuff is all great, as long as you master the Submit button.

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  6. Okay, we are very close. It looks like a link but the link doesn't work, meaning the form is correct with the use of the angle brackets and the "a href=" instruction for a link, but there is a problem in the address submitted.

    Give it a couple more whirls. You are doing great!

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  7. It can be hard to follow what you have said when you are adding a page address because the code for the address is so long. Just remeber that everything contained in the link instruction disappears when you submit the message. You may very well already know this, but you can copy addresses easy by clicking them and then use Ctrl C. Ctrl V will paste it to where your cursor is. Ctrl X removes (cuts) the highlighted area.

    You can also link to a particular comment if you right click the comment and get the properties. The address of the comment should be there.

    Let's see if this works.

    Did you see Darrell's comment on APril's Oldie but goodie post? The guy is fast. He is the perfect foil for April.

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  8. Nope. The old Error #404.

    Oh well. Not all Blogs will support the same functions. (More likely operator error in this case however).

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  9. I am way confused. When I click on "Here goes nothin'" I get shot over to the Hyacinth Girl (my intended target). But you don't?
    Cathy

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  10. No. I get: Page Not Found.

    If it works for you than that means you must have done it either exactly right or pretty darn close. I don't know why I get the error note.

    Hmmm.

    Ilion!!

    Most of my links work, but sometimes not. That is why after a failed link I make a second attempt and then give the address as well, just in case there is a problem I am not catching.

    I think you've got it. Now to try it on a blog site that people read!

    Good for you, Cath.

    By the way, you are writing some great stuff. I am very glad you bumped into April's blog and have hung around to comment.

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  11. Hey, by the way, you can link to the site address, but if you want to link to a particular post on that site you need to use the post address - click on the post title and the address of the post pops up in the address bar - it is the site address plus the title or date of the post.

    If you get me, great. If not, just keep going like you are.

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  12. Hey, your link works for me from my other computer! Must have been a computer issue for some reason.

    Anyway, good stuff!

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  13. It's like a new toy! Thanks again,
    Cathy

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  14. And thank you for the encouragement. I'm glad I bumped into April's blog, too. Of course, it was very nice being 'specially invited over here.

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  15. Oh -- back to codes -- I clicked on your "Darrell's comment" link, and got the "page not found" message. I'm on a Mac, in Safari. Does that make any difference in this stuff?
    Cathy

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  16. I was trying to see if I could write a link that would take you directly to a comment in a post, rather than just to the post itself.

    I could not. I am not sure if that is because the properties of a particular comment are not described on April's blog, or if I need to define the comment I am selecting in some fashion. Wakefield knows this stuff pretty well, and has written links that take me directly to a comment he wrote. I will have to ask him about it.

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  17. Mac should not make a difference in my experience. In fact, Mac are said to be superior for stability, and if you're going to run into these "click-bang" type issues, it's more than likely you're on one of Bill Gates' babies. I went to MacCleans mag online the other days and could not have had a worse time when idiotic MS messages popped up and stalled out the whole page. That's Microsoft, not Mac.

    I'm thinking now of getting a Mac. Tis gettin' mightly old.

    Having said that, remember that hyperlinks like you described can break, or ONE character off and you're screwed. Check on the link and look for any variations.

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  18. All right then, how about trying to reach my comment on the bloody minded personality of a chess playing computer?

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  19. Yes, it does work Cathy.

    Go to the comment, right click on it and at the bottom you can click on properties, copy the address of the comment listed in the properties list and make that the link address.

    Very nice.

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