A while back, I had to read Harry Reid’s book — a 300-page patchwork of pointless political score-settling with little redeeming value. However, today’s apology from Reid regarding his racist remarks does bring to mind this quote from the book:
“I speak bluntly. Sometimes I can be impulsive. I believe something to be right and do it. And then I don’t worry about it. This has not always served me well, but it is who I am. I can be no else.”
Reid said that in the in the process of making an emphatic point about how he would not apologize for his wildly inappropriate — and as it turned out erroneous — 2007 remark about the war in Iraq being lost. I don’t have any reason to doubt the sincerity of Reid’s apology today, but I do find it interesting that not all that long ago Reid was insisting that his impulsive statements are “who I am.” And that came just a few pages after where the Senate Majority Leader insulted President George W. Bush’s by way of calling his mother a “b-tch.”
If nothing else, this incident calls into question Reid’s woeful lack of judgment, both for uttering the remarks about Obama in the first place and for previously being so arrogant as to think that he didn’t have to apologize for the litany of mean and ill-considered things he has said over the
