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

To: jlallen who wrote (520454)	1/6/2004 5:33:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

Lott's comments were way over-hyped, given an importance they probably shouldn't have been given. Likely, Lott was just 'easy and comfortable' in dealing with Thurmond from their many years in the Senate. Because of that 'institutional bond', Lott's political instincts were not as sharp as they should have been in this case --- it's understandable that he failed to remember or give weight to Thurmond's Dixiecrat segregationist past when he made those birthday party comments, given the many years that have passed --- but in the South (the 'bloody South'), memories run long, and racial discord... pain, discrimination, and violence are still close to the surface... and not distant at all in time. For a Southern politician to say that America would have been better if a Dixiecrat had won the Presidency --- that was a remarkable gaffe. (Wonder what they had to drink at that party????)