Reid Apologizes for Obama Remarks: ; Book About Primary Brings Controversy to Leader of Senate

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WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying Barack Obama should seek - and could win - the White House because Obama was a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Obama quickly accepted, saying "As far as I am concerned, the book is closed."

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Reid Apologizes for Obama Remarks: ; Book About Primary Brings Controversy to Leader of Senate

Reid made the comments in private during the long 2008 campaign, according to a new book about the election, which elevated Obama from first-term Illinois senator to the first black president.

After excerpts from the book appeared on the W...

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