[MEG33]

Kerry sounded so bad calling Pickering a supporter of cross burners or some such complete distortion of the facts.

[summer]

I know what you are saying. Here these Dem candidates were actually getting some momentum in their 4-way tie, and they made all these stupid statements about Pickering. The candidates seem not to have enough time to investigate facts on their own. But, they should.

[summer]

RE your post #5 - It's interesting to me that local residents remember something very different than what Kerry said:

But they [local residents] do remember that in 1967, Judge Pickering testified against Sam Bowers, a Ku Klux Klan leader based in Laurel who was on trial for the firebombing death of a black civil rights worker. Several said that just as the judge broke with prevailing white opinion in the state to do so, they have no trouble differing with black opinion.

[summer]

I meant to say: and THEN they made all these stupid statements about Pickering...