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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (119232)	12/23/2000 2:34:37 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Webster's Third New International Dictionary ... the big one ... the one that weighs 20 pounds ... has a surprisingly short definition of bigot: "1. A superstitious religious hypocrite." "2. one obstinately and irrationally, often intolerantly, devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion." Far more enlightening is the dictionary's definition of the adjective "bigoted": "Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion, or practice; unreasonably devoted to a system or party and illiberal, often intolerant, toward others' opinions." Note the use of the word "illiberal." Can one be a liberal and also a bigot? I don't think so.