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View Poll Results: Should Trent Lott resign as Senate Majority Leader? | |
Yes, he and all his KKK buddies gotta go!
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Yes, he no longer has the moral strength to lead.
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No, his apologies were genuine and should be accepted at face value.
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No, the liberals are just making hay of this whole thing.
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12-12-2002, 07:21 AM
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Trent Lott Poll
Should Trent Lott resign for making off-handed comments, admittedly stupid ones, about Strom Thurmond?
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12-12-2002, 07:37 AM
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Guess I fall into the making hay category.
Clinton has skeletons in his closet.
Gore has his.
Democrats make nothing of those. and attack pubs on theirs.
Lot does not have a record that indicates he is a racist.
Several other dixiecrats show a record of voting against integration. Sooooooo, make of it what you will .
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12-12-2002, 07:38 AM
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GWB is clean as fresh snow. Nothing to hide.
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12-12-2002, 07:57 AM
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What gets me is what all the news channels add Strom Thurmond the "segregationist" now. Lott didn't say that. The media has now added to Strom a new last name. Since Lott gave a compliment to a hundred year old man. The news media are very good at propaganda IE-find a sound byte that sticks and run it into the ground. Is that the only thing Strom is known for after all his years in office? Was that the only platform on his ticket? I think not. Although I can't tell you much about him either. Now I know he was a segregationist. So were a lot of people 60 years ago.
What about Al Gore's dad. One of the fervant anti-intergration people also. Robert Byrd etc. Give it a rest Dem's. 
edit: Should all the news media now refer to
Clinton the adulterer
Clinton the liar
Clinton the take advantage of a 20 year old subordinant
Clinton the(insert proper or improper name here)
swamp
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12-12-2002, 08:01 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by swamp-fox
What gets me is what all the news channels add Strom Thurmond the "segregationist" now. Lott didn't say that..... The news media are very good at propaganda, i.e.,--find a sound byte that sticks and run it into the ground.... | SO TRUE.  | |
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12-12-2002, 08:25 AM
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In 1980, at a rally for Ronald Reagan, Lott also said that if Thurmond had been elected President in 1948, "we wouldn't be in the mess we are today". Lott's claim that he was talking about Thurmond's support for a strong national defense is nothing short of ludicrous; the 1948 campaign was about segregation and nothing else.
This was not an inadvertent slip by Trent Lott; it is part and parcel of his long history of sympathy for segregationist causes.
In 1981, Trent Lott, then a congressman, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Bob Jones University case (BJU was trying to keep its tax-exempt status despite forbidding interracial dating). In it, he said in part, "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy." BJU is in South Carolina, not Mississippi, so this was a matter of principle, not constituent services, for Lott.
Lott has also expressed sympathy for reinstating the citizenship of Jefferson Davis and been a guest speaker at meetings of the Council of Conservative Citizens (the successor to the White Citizens Council, a segregationist group).
The man is an unreconstructed bigot. But he's not quite enough of a fool to admit it outright.
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12-12-2002, 08:32 AM
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So Theophylact, where were the outraged Black liberals when President Clinton bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on William Fulbright, the pro-segregationist senator who signed the "Southern Manifesto" condemning Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision making segregation illegal?
Or was Jesse Jackson "busy" at the time?
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12-12-2002, 08:41 AM
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Shahani, Personally you know how I feel about GWB.
He is not perfect. But I do believe him to be a patriot and a person who does things he thinks are in the interest of america.
Has he made mistakes? yep!
Do I believe him to be an evil single minded bussiness man out to increase his fortune at the expense of all the little people's deaths. NO.
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12-12-2002, 08:45 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Epidemic
Do I believe him to be an evil single minded bussiness man out to increase his fortune at the expense of all the little people's deaths. NO. | I agree. He has political cronies and billionaire contributors who fulfill that function.  | |
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12-12-2002, 10:04 AM
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| Osprey 4, I didn't say Thurmond hadn't changed. Thurmond eventually came around to supporting a National holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King, for example. Fulbright also grew with time. A lot of people regret things they stood for in their past, and change.
My point is that Trent Lott hasn't changed.
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