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Lott's tribute to Thurmond seen as racist
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| Saturday, December 7, 2002
| Thomas B. Edsall
Posted on 12/08/2002 11:24:14 PM PST by Michael2001
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Washington -- Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has provoked criticism by saying the United States would have been better off if then- segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948.
Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Thurmond, the retiring Republican senator from South Carolina, Lott said, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either. "
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To: zarf
>>I think he just presented Jesse Jerkson with a large strap - on.<<
That's the best anal-ysis I've read on this all day!
LOL
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To: jennyp
The mods can edit a thread starter instead of just deleting it? Cool!
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12/09/2002 5:10:10 PM PST
by
jennyp
To: Michael2001
I hate to say it, but Tom Daschle made the most gracious apology for Lott that I ever saw tonight.
He said he was sure Lott didn't mean it the way it sounded and brushed it off.
He exhibited more understanding and common sense (whatever his motives for doing so) than Britt Hume's entire panel.
Good job Mr Daschle, thanks for doing the right thing.
(Did I really say that? I can't believe I said that..)
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12/09/2002 5:14:28 PM PST
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Jhoffa_
To: A.J.Armitage
in Mississippi, that was the choice, Truman (Democrat) or Thurmond (Dixiecrat). The republicans couldnt get up a ball game back then. Oh what a wonderful world we live in, by comparison.
Truman went home wearing his dress blue Army Artillery uniform, and his mother said "Don't you ever come in this house with THAT uniform on again."
He grew up unreconstructed, but managed to surmount it. Darned fine piano player too!
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03/03/2003 9:06:04 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(Time is Relative, at least in my family.)
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