Who Reid was really criticizing

Brit Hume makes a good point here. It was us, the electorate, that Sen. Harry Reid was really disparaging when he made those remarks about Barack Obama.

“Harry Reid’s apology to President Obama and the president’s ready acceptance may have missed the point entirely.

In saying during the campaign last year that Mr. Obama was light-skinned and spoke in a “negro dialect” only when he wished, Senator Reid was in fact praising his fellow senator’s electability. But he was certainly not praising the American electorate, whom Senator Reid seems to view as still so infected by racism that only a black who doesn’t quite seem black could ever be elected president.”

Good point, and one everyone else in the media seems to have missed as they argue about every other aspect of this issue.

“Even today, liberal politicians and their allies in the media attribute criticism of President Obama’s policies to their inability to accept that a black man is president. There is doubtless some fringe in America who may feel that way, but the overwhelming majority of Americans seem to feel otherwise. They are pleased to see African-Americans getting ahead, and the fact that Barack Obama is black was actually an asset to him in his quest for the presidency, contributing to voter’s willingness to support a man with whom polls showed majorities disagreed on a range of issues.”

American citizens have evolved our thinking far ahead of some of our leading members of Congress.