Reid's Misjudgment

You have to love it. Senator Reid got caught in the glare of political correctness. During the heat of the 2008 elections, he observed that Mr. Obama's light skin and ability to speak proper English made him a viable candidate. It was an accurate assessment.

Reid misjudged the impact of skin color on the voters' reception of Obama. It dates him. He has spent so many years telling minorities that whites are their enemies that he actually believes that nothing has changed since the Sixties.

But, Obama would still be a community organizer if he had delivered his campaign messages in the dialect common to inner city inhabitants. Black, vernacular English (Ebonics) is near universally equated with a sorry education and all the tangential shortcomings associated with this static environment.

Political correctness is a weapon that liberals rarely encounter, as it's designed to squelch the objective truth by besmirching conservative proponents. It's used to smear the subject when an accurate observation challenges the flimsy facade of the Democrats' propaganda. They always resort to personal attacks.

Naturally when a liberal is inadvertently caught telling an obvious truth, which contradicts the liberal message, the offender is excused and the incident is ignored. Had Sarah Palin or Senator McCain made the same statement as Reid, the Left Wing would have unleashed the dogs of war to destroy their reputations and careers.

This conclusion is supported by the willingness of the two most infamous, anti-truth scoundrels in politics to forgive and forget the transgression. There hasn't been a negative peep from either of the nation's two notorious race-baiting slugs, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. And the Black Caucus must be in hibernation.

Now read between the lines of Reid's statement in the context of the political campaign environment. Reid accurately concluded that an articulate and charismatic black had a better chance of winning the presidency than a woman with negatives as high as the Rockies. Obama offered the best opportunity for the Democrats.

And note Reid never mentioned Obama's inexperience, nor his associations with anti-American preachers, Marxists and terrorists. He correctly pinpointed Obama's strengths, and the opportunity to harness white guilt. It was an accurate assessment.

Now analyze Reid's decision to support Obama. Reid knew that Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate. Obama was a true believer, and black.

Thus, Reid could safely assume that Obama blamed the wealthy for the misery of minorities. And Obama's devotion to income redistribution, the green agenda, higher taxes on the wealthy, his anti-military and anti-business stances and his rejection of school vouchers were indicators that proved Obama had swallowed all the liberal propaganda.

Reid saw the ring in Obama's nose that would allow the Democrats to set an agenda that Obama would enthusiastically follow with a simple tug. It was an accurate assessment.

But Reid's judgment was flawed. He believed that an articulate, charismatic, black president could persuade the majority of Americans that socialism was superior to capitalism; that the nation's security would be improved with a smile; and, that Americans didn't care about deficits. He misjudged America, but not Obama.