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You say psycho like it is a bad thing.

  ~~I will be nice to people.~~
  ~~I will try to be more patient with the incompetent people around me.~~
  I will not slap any idiots before 10 AM.

Rush Limbaugh, 17 August 2000

Here's yet another thing that's bugging me about the Democrat's convention. It's that the Democrats think that they're the only ones that stand for or believe in civil rights.
The claim has always bothered me. In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican president, used his federal power to integrate the Little Rock school system. He stood up to a Democratic Governor, Orville Faubus, who, incidentally, Clinton befriended early in his political career.
Democrats claim that The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is their act. It isn't. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed with an over-whelming majority of Republican votes in the Senate. A greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the bill.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which the Democrats claim as their monopoly, was opposed by southern Democrat senators, several of whom were outspoken segregationists, and one of them was Al Gore's father.
Lyndon Johnson, who was president, had to rely on Everett Dirkson, the great Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Civil Rights Act passed just like Clinton had to rely on Republicans to get NAFTA passed. It was the Democrats back in 1964 who were at war with themselves and conflicted over civil rights.
The idea that the Democrats are responsible for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a myth that has been given life by the Democrats and the media for 36 years now. It's hokum. It's grating on me as much as the idea that the Republicans want dirty water and dirty air.
The liberals are living a lie. They're telling themselves these lies in order to make themselves feel good at their convention, but it isn't flying and the poll numbers show it.