Obama code switches [Reader Post]
Harry Reid once observed Barack Obama’s ability to shift between common English and what Reid called “Negro dialect.”
“He [Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ ” Halperin and Heilemann say.
Reid was right, but he was dunned into apologizing for it.