Let me explain something to you people. Harry Reid is not a racist. He also is a racist. This is because Harry Reid and many others like him from both parties, use what is convenient for their own purposes at any given point in time.
Politicians of certain levels view themselves as perfect, and EVERYONE else as somewhere below them. Some people are right below them and some people are way below them, but EVERYONE is below them. Not only do they have this mentally distorted view of reality, but they act on it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Every person on the planet has millions of discernable traits. The permutations of these traits dictate that no two people are exactly alike. It also dictates that you can take any two people and find lots of common traits. Dirt bag politicians like Reid take advantage of this in both directions. They are keenly aware of all their own traits but also know that nobody else knows everything about them. Reid might be about as smart as the average Canadian, but if you just met him he might be able to tell you he invented Yale. When Reid and people like him are with a group of people, they latch on to real or perceived common traits, and use them to denegrate people with different traits.
Reid essentially said:
Hey, we're all white here but we have to realize this Obama dude is not as black as some others.
He simultaneously propped up Obama and put him down. He did it based on race. This makes him a racist. Or does it? Not really. If Obama were a white jew, Reid could have used that or any of millions of other traits like:
education
profession
sex
sexual orientation
family
ethnicity
home town
personal hygiene
and on and on
Reid is a racist when it suits him, he is tolerant when it suits him. He is a dirt bag all of the time. Unfortunately, this does not make him unique.