[Oceander]

What's to misconstrue? You said that you failed to fulfill your constitutional oath of office, you withheld services to a citizen because of his skin color, and you fobbed him off on a private attorney who was "one of his own kind."

You said it, Sherrod, we didn't. There's nothing to construe there, you admitted publicly, to a friendly audience, to engaging in blatantly racist behavior.

[Izzy Dunne]

There's nothing to construe there, you admitted publicly, to a friendly audience, to engaging in blatantly racist behavior.

But if the rest of the story is true, then it happened 24 years ago, and she learned to get past her own prejudice. That's something to applaud, not condemn. And it's irresponsible to not mention it.