Senator Harry Reid apologized for saying, during
the 2008 presidential campaign, that Obama was a viable
candidate because he was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro
dialect, unless he wanted to have one." G.O.P. Chairman
Michael Steele called on Reid to step down as Senate
majority leader over his "anachronistic language"; Steele
also called the current Republican platform "one of the
best political documents that's been written in the last
25 years," adding, "honest Injun on that."