[witnesstothefall]

Defending Lott on this is a mistake politically, and it's just wrong. If the quote I read is accurate, they are the words of an unreconstructed segregationist. If Lott spoke them, the words are his undoing. They should not be the Party's, however. /$.02

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

What did Lott say? I read a hundred posts like that this morning. The only actual quote I found was simply that Thurmond would have been a good president in '48. And that is correct. He would have, IMHO. I say that shamelessly, but it doesn't have a darn thing to do with segregation. Civil Rights would ultimately have been won, regardless.

With all due respect to Truman's cousin, Truman made a mess of things. He created the UN, designing it with complete naivitee. He got us in the Korea quagmire and put MacArthur on such a short leash MacArthur could not conceive of how to win the war and follow Truman's directives at the same time, he proliferated nuclear weapons with his silly 'atoms for peace' project, and he allowed actual, official socialists to be hired in the executive branch by the thousands. Yes, he dropped the bomb on Japan and ended the war. Yes, he bailed out the rest of the world with the Marshall Plan. Both achievements are constroversial, but well, I'm trying to say something nice here.