Reno, NV – Sharron Angle (R-NV), a conservative former state legislator who leads over Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) by five percentage points in the January 2010 Mason-Dixon poll, released a statement today concerning revealed statements which came to light concerning Reid’s assessment of President Barack Obama’s skin color and speech dialect.
“Harry Reid’s remarks are offensive to all Americans. I am disgusted, though not surprised that Reid thinks like this. The idea that he would strategize a presidential race based on skin color and speech pattern only proves that he is out of touch. Apparently, Reid decides that all Americans are not created equal; deciding one skin color over another color for the basis of being qualified to win or not goes against everything that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hoped for, that one day his own children would ‘live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’”
Angle’s statement came on the heels of Reid’s admission that his private comments were “improper” and a “poor choice of words” when he based Obama’s ability to win a presidential election by assessing that Obama chances were amplified by the fact that Obama is “light-skinned” and had no “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
“Of course he used words that were improper and poorly chosen, but no doubt this is how Reid deliberates when he is behind closed doors, and the only reason he is apologizing is because he got caught,” concluded Angle. “Harry Reid is offensive in the many things he says and does, and it shows in his blatant regard just by the way he leads this country against the people’s will.”
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