"Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized on Saturday for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country's first black president because he was 'light-skinned' and had 'no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one'" ("Reid Apologizes for Remarks on Obama's Color and Dialect").
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook man." (Sen. Joseph Biden on then-Sen. Barack Obama CNN.com). Biden apologized.
"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. . . . Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future" (from the announcement of Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize). Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf apologized profusely and sent President Obama a fruit basket.
The Solipsist would also like to apologize for on several occasions calling President Obama "cool," as this was obviously a subconscious reference to the president's skin-color. We will try to refrain from such racist demagoguery in the future.
Actually he's the first president of any race in almost 10 years who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. And good catch, only African Americans can be cool, so watch it in future.
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