[BibChr]

While Bob Livingston resigned from Congress, though he had violated no Congressional rule, all that Senator Lott would need to do to spare his party would be to step aside from the role of Majority Leader in the Senate

See, I have a problem with that. Think it through with me.

Either Lott was expressing his support of legalized, institutionalized segregation, or he was not.

1. If he was not, then what is the big fuss? The best you can say is that he's got a tin ear and a stupid mouth, and for that reason should resign leadership and can stay in the Senate. (This probably is my position.)
2. If he was expressing support for legalized, institutionalized segregation, then he should resign from the Senate.

Dan

[Protagoras]

Either Lott was expressing his support of legalized, institutionalized segregation, or he was not.

How will you be able to ascertain the truth about what he meant? He says he didn't, many others say he did.

And Sowell made precisely the same point as you did, so I'm wondering what part you have a problem with.

[Dataman]

If he was not, then what is the big fuss? The best you can say is that he's got a tin ear and a stupid mouth, and for that reason should resign leadership and can stay in the Senate. (This probably is my position.)

Right again, Dan. I have been wondering how this thing could be such a big deal as well. Though I'd shed no tears if Lott stepped down, I stand, no- I sit in utter amazement at the hypocrisy shown by his critics.

It is also beyond comprehension how a man's words mean what his critics say they mean, not actually what he says they mean. That is, of course, a phenomenon that only exists from Left to Right and never the reverse. Completely incomprehensible!

If the government schools had not abandoned the task of education 40 years ago, we might have witnessed a little more intellectual analysis of the situation. As it is, all you need are a couple of functioning glands to be a pundit.