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To: jlallen who wrote (328534)	12/12/2002 4:01:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Right. That makes it all better. It was a 'reasonable explanation'. But, distilling plain truth from his plain words, what he said was: America would be better off if the Dixiecrat segregationists had won the Presidency... and then he said he was 'proud' his State had voted for them in the Electoral College (leaving out the salient fact that Blacks couldn't vote in his State in that election). And he has said nearly the exact same words before in public.... Which leads many to believe he only spoke what was in his heart, and that he is down deep, an unreconstructed segregationist. Why apologize for speaking his true mind? (Only because the winds of political expediency were howling, that's why.) If Lott thinks that America would be better off to have continued it's embrace of segregation, Jim Crow laws and poll taxes and lynchings... then I have very BIG problems with him.

To: jlallen who wrote (328534)	12/12/2002 4:27:03 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Lott's out because W wants him out. W is cleaning house. He can't afford DeLay and Lott gumming up the works as he moves more towards center. (In press releases and talking points, only.) When did the Democrats' "destruction machine" ever work for them? This is from the right, not the left. Lott is out. The Fix is In.

To: jlallen who wrote (328534)	12/12/2002 7:59:44 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769670

I watch NYPD Blue on the satellite and they flash pictures of the Twin Towers at times. I watched how those towers were built and saw and heard the people leaping out of those towers. Horror and fear and pain and death beyond belief. This was done on the order of some nut 1,000 years ago? I'm getting a whole lot less PC as the years wear on. Iraq has nerve gas in artillery shells but it's not for war and left over? Passing out VX gas. Lets start cracking some real ass before 9/11 happens again.

To: jlallen who wrote (328534)	12/13/2002 3:57:37 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<And it was a reasonable explanation, nothwithstanding the attempted lynching of Lott, by pinheads like yourself.>> Don't forget pinheads like Charles Krauthammer: washingtonpost.com Trent Lott must resign as Senate majority leader. It's not just that no one who has said this can lead an American political party. It's that no one who could say something like this should be an American leader. It is a pity that a long and distinguished career such as Lott's should come to this. But there is nothing you can do to Lott's statement -- turn it, twist it, flip it, spin it -- to make it any less appalling. It was not "a poor choice of words," as he later pleaded. It was a perfectly clear choice of words articulating a perfectly clear idea. Had Lott stopped with Thurmond-for-president, 1948, this might have been written off as idle and presumably insincere birthday flattery for a very, very old man. But Lott did not stop there. He added, fatally, that America would have been better off had it embraced Dixiecrat segregation. With that, Lott cut off any retreat. This is not just the kind of eruption of moronic bias or racial insensitivity that cost baseball executive Al Campanis and sports commentator Jimmy the Greek Snyder their careers. This is something far more important. This is about getting wrong the most important political phenomenon in the past half-century of American history: the civil rights movement. Getting wrong its importance is not an issue of political correctness. It is evidence of a historical blindness that is utterly disqualifying for national office. Steve