[rabidralph]

Does he really need to keep dragging this out?

He's not the one dragging this out. A-holes in Congress and the media keep badgering him about it. if the first heart-felt apology wasn't good enough for them, he should tell them to all go ef themselves. Maybe he should tell them that if Clinton didn't have to resign for misconduct in the Oval Office, then he sure as heck wouldn't resign his post for having his words misinterpreted.

I've not heard what "all these problems" means, but a go slow approach to segregation/integration might have prevented "all these problems" we have with the welfare state. Maybe if the races were kept separate for a little while longer, the black middle class might have had a chance to flourish and families could have passed the work ethic and a respect for education on to the next generation. Instead we have problems with people who don't want to work and expect the government to provide their every need. That's what I think "all these problems" means.

[dix]

Having been raised in the South I have had those same thoughts, but if you even hinted at something like that you would be labeled a bigot. Integration was rammed down out throats. People are good, and if given enough time to resolve a problem whose time had come it would have been fine. The Northern liberals leadership were nothing but a bunch of commies who simply saw integration as another way to divide us to make us weak. The proof is look at the plight of the black man in this country forty years later. True it is mostly their fault for being so stupid as to let the government provide everything for them, where before there was a relatively thriving black middle class in the South