[arielb]

are you saying that Strom Thurmond is a racist?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Here is a link that works:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/07/MN176462.DTL

All Lott said is that Thurmond would have been a good president. BFD. Then-president Truman was KKK. And if any current senators need to be looked at, what about KKK Byrd and his 'white ni**er' remarks? Byrd also made a marathon filibuster against a key human rights vote in the 60s. It's just liberal desperation and hypocracy, as usual.

[A.J.Armitage]

He was a racist in 1948.

[goldstategop]

He isn't now but he was back then. I have no interest in dredging over this country's ugly past but I felt the need to put in perspective and state I vigorously disagreed with what Trent Lott said.