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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127411)	2/16/2001 12:44:10 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Democrats were on both sides of the civil rights issue. Remember George Wallace? He was a Democrat. Most Southern racists were Democrats, in fact. Republicans were still associated with Lincoln. (By the way, it was a Republican, Earl Warren, who led the Supreme Court to ban segregation, and it was a Republican, Eisenhower, who enforced integration at Central High in Little Rock by federalizing the National Guard and posting them to restrain rioting and protect the children). Republicans have not aligned themselves with the Aryan Nation or David Duke. When Duke ran as a Republican, the chairman of the Louisiana Republican party and various national officials called on Louisiana Republicans to vote for his opponent, a Democrat. You are woefully misinformed. In the is country, one can register as anything, but that doesn't mean that the party approves. One of the main quasi- Nazi groups in this country, the Larouchites, are submerged in the Democratic Party, as a matter of fact, and their leader has run for president as a Democrat in election after election......

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127411)	2/16/2001 12:49:09 AM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Patricia it a fact that Lyndon Johnson would not have passed the civil rights laws without the Republican minority leader who helped pass it through. In terms of voting as a percentage the Republicans voted in favor of the passing of the bill with a higher percentage of vote for than the Democrats. You can go through some disgusting Democrat redneck areas that are the same as what you described. Go ask any person on this board if they feel that they think like the Aryan nation or know anyone that does. This is the problem with the liberal treatment of conservatives. You always equate conservatives with the most extreme of the element. Is it fair to say that because you belive in the environment you are all UNI BOMBERS? Is it right for me to say that liberals believe that having 50 different sexual partners in a month is the standard because some radical gays live that life style. This has been a very effective technique of the press in linking all conservative thought to the most extreme of the right but of course never trotting out the far left extremists. There are women who say any sex between a husband and wife is rape and they voted for CLinton. Your side has as many whackos and extremists but they just don't get paraded out in the same manner as the conservative extremists do. As far as kicking back I can walk down the streets of SanFrancisco and see plenty of wretched souls who tuned in turned on and are permanently dropped out.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127411)	2/16/2001 10:12:02 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as opposed to 80% of Republicans. In the Senate, 69% of Democrats voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans were in favor. In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party. Moreover, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, an Illinois Republican, collaborated with the White House and the Senate leadership of both parties to draft acceptable compromise amendments to end the southern Democrats' filibuster of the Act. It was Dirksen who often took to the Senate floor to declare, "This is an idea whose time has come. It will not be denied." Dirksen's work earned him the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Award, presented by then-NAACP Chairman Roy Wilkins, for his remarkable civil rights leadership. - June 1964 issues of Congressional Quarterly. btw, Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed. In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, Clinton's political mentor, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for the racist amendment. So Al Gore the Junior lied when he said his dad lost the election because he stood for the Civil Rights Bill. The son lied to cover up the racist background. Dems know it's easy to control the minds of people by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee and his mythical "support" of civil rights.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127411)	2/16/2001 4:27:18 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Dear Patrica, How stupid are you. Well stupid is as stupid does. Stupid is trying to use a label and then citing some examples of individuals connected with that label to make a point. This is the way of words of truly stupid people. Currently their are a lot of folks who carry or espouse that they are democrats. When any of those or any who do not see how despicable the last acts of clinton were and still support or try to defend the scummy pardon of fugitive Marc Rich given with the clear appearance of bribery then they are indeed acting stupidly or as just plain clinton scum. So Patricia as you continue to post when I see you repeating the same stupid methodology of nonsense I will let ya know. Tom Watson tosiwmee