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Over the weekend, a storm broke over Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid surrounding comments made prior to the last Presidential election.  The conversation was revealed in a book called “Game Change” about the 2008 election.  Apparently, the Senate Majority Leader believed that the President was an attractive candidate for … well… those that can’t think before they speak.  Judging Obama a good candidate, Reid opined that the future President was a good candidate as he was “light-skinned with no Negro dialect unless he wants one. “

Of course the GOP, having seen one of its former leaders go down in flames for poorly chosen remarks at a birthday party, cried foul.  Democrats tried to laugh off the firestorm and brought in the Prez to help cool things down.  Unfortunately, the President simply confirmed the existence of the double standard although too few in the formerly main stream media realized it.

In rising to Reid’s defense, the President said that Harry Reid is:
“A good man”  (he would be better as a hardware store owner in Searchlight, NV), and
 “A Stalwart Champion of Civil Rights” (as were most Democrats in the 1960s)

Obama added that “there was nothing mean-spirited in what Reid had to say and he’s always been on the right side of the issues.” (meaning that Reid is a reliable liberal).  Obama proceeded to accept Reid’s apology and to chastise those that would criticize either the President or the current Majority Leader.

Taking a closer look at the President’s remarks confirms the double standard that emerged when a leftist like Harry Reid made a racially tinged gaffe.  This as compared to when someone like former Senate Majority Leader Trend Lott makes the similar misstep.  There are actually three confirmations of the double standard found in the President’s comments.

The term “a good man” used as an excuse for inappropriate behavior was also utilized by leftists in defense of Bill Clinton.  It is the Democrat’s ‘bread and butter’ defense.. It has also been used recently for such liberal stalwarts as Turbo Tax Tim Geithner.    Liberals rarely extend the term ‘good man’ to anyone outside of their leftist dreamland, so this shouldn’t be surprising.  What Obama revealed in use of this term though, is that Harry Reid can be classified as a ‘Good Man’ and therefore be exempt from criticism because he is a Democrat.  It naturally follows then that non-Democrats have a different set of rules.

“A stalwart champion of civil rights” was also used by Obama to describe Reid’s character and to mitigate the damage.  Of course as anyone in the DC Press Corps understands, a champion of civil rights is always exempt from personal responsibility.  Jesse Jackson with his history of shakedowns and other personal indiscretions is never held to account for his treatment of others.  And just remember the good Reverend Al Sharpton in his balanced and peace-making approach to the 1987 Tawana Brawley fraud? 

As Democrats are the Holy determiners of who actually is a ‘champion of civil rights,’ Obama was just exercising His divine right to pardon someone He politically agrees with.  If His Excellency the Prez doesn’t agree with you, you are morally condemned.   If you are “on the right side of history,” as determined by the Chosen One, you can make racist comments and get off with an apology.  Obama just issued His decision and the press validated the claim.

All this relies on the complicity of the formerly free American Press Corps.  All too quick to point out any hint of hypocrisy should a Conservative make a misstatement, the Press has emerged as a willing accomplice to the Divine Right of Democrats to chose who is morally superior.  And from that morally superior class emerges the right to determine right from wrong and apply rules without regard to consistency or fairness.

The right to determine virtue in others is the Democrat’s self-proclaimed entitlement.  With the assistance of the formerly free press, the Democrats are now defining a favored class of people by applying rules and protocol according to who is impacted regardless of what was said or done.  Of course they reserved the judge’s chair for themselves.  And in their actions, Democrats have revealed in themselves a belief in their new societal role – the Ruling Class.