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

To: Poet who wrote (329893)	12/17/2002 11:57:22 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The problem is the double standard. I did not see any calls for Clinton to resign when he made what is obviously an insensitive ethnic comment. (I remember another one he made about Italians too so he hit both sides of my family tree). The media still quotes J. Jackson extensively despite his "hymietown" and other lapses. No one called on Byrd to resign when he used the "n" word. There are many other examples. Lott is also guilty of insensitivity and I do think he should step down from his leadership position because we should expect more from our leadership, i.e., the comment was inexcusably stupid and also he is generally ineffective as a leader and this incident is unilkeyl to improve the situation. This is a good excuse to remove him and keep the Bush agenda on track. JLA

To: Poet who wrote (329893)	12/17/2002 12:03:04 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I was insulted by the reference, as were many of my friends and family. My grandfather was barred from working (NINA) after he immigrated here because he was Irish. He had to lie about his heritage to get carpentry jobs. He worked his ass off til the day he died trying to make enough to live in a world that overtly discriminated against him. Years later, a President, a vermin the world had never seen before, comes along and publicly slurs him and his countrymen. Personally, I don't care if you were insulted. I was. And so were other Irish. That's why Clinton apologized. But then, he said it again, reminding all of us just how disingenuous he really was.