Joe Biden is still vice president of the United States even though he called the first black president “clean” and “articulate.” Harry Reid is still Senate majority leader even though he said Obama was “light-skinned” and could drop his “Negro dialect” on cue. Until his death in 2010, Senator Robert Byrd was “a lion of the Senate” even though he was a former Kleagle in the KKK. If these had been Republicans, they would have been hounded from office. They’re Democrats, so they’re not.
