Posted on 12/12/2002 4:05:38 PM PST by ewing
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Wolf Blitzer said word has come down from the White House that Trent Lott should not resign as Senate Majority Leader and that his apologies are good enough.
Nothing on what the Republican National Committee might say tomorrow..
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Nope, this is the senate version of "Borking" it is a tried and true tactic that has been used against any republican or conswervative to get rid of judicial nominees, and congressional leaders. It is past time that the republicans take on the present day racism and not stand for it any longer.
Do I think Lott's comments were ill advised? Well truth is, the democrats saluted Strom a few months back. Their comments were as stupid as Lott's. Who's taking them to task?
Although Lott is a jack-s-, I do not like to see people drumed out of service on bogus comments. Lott isn't my idea of a Conservative, but I don't think he should be run on the charge of him being a racist either. His whole political life in service to the Senate would be boiled down to him being guilty of being a despicable racist. That strikes me as unacceptable. It's as morally reprehensible as supporting a racist simply to thwart the democrats initiative.
I'm not sure if you remember the Dodger's executive Al Campanas, at least I believe it was him. Al made a comment to the effect that Blacks were physically superior because they had been bread for physical strength and stamina when they went through slavery. Here was a guy that did not condone what had been perpetrated on Blacks. He simply made what he thought was a factual observation regarding their abuse. For this Al was targeted by the media and drumed out of his livelihood as if he were the ultimate racist.
On the face of it any rational person would realize that every teacher in America that recounted a factual abuse against Blacks should have been dismissed just like Al was. After all, they recount abuses of Blacks. And like Al, they don't condone that abuse.
Neither Al or Trent should have to face illegitimate charges over things either Democrats or teachers are on the record for having done, with no penalty or criticism whatsoever.
Lott said nothing racist except to those that view all southerners as racist. I am really angry at Bush for not stepping up and telling the new racists to shove it.
He said that America would be a better place if Strom Thurmond had been elected President in 1948, when Mr. Thurmond ran on a segregationist platform.
Maybe that isn't a racist statement in your book, but it sure is a dumb one.
Damn it, Tex! I MUST be losing it. I actually agree wholeheartedly with what you post here!
Southerner FRegards!
Bump!
Yes. And I absolutely LOATHE Drudge for his KEY role in stirring the pot on this issue!
Right, and those same Senators have to replace him ASAP.
Poohbah look at reality. Yes in 1948 there was segregation in this country and it was a very tough time for blacks. That was a bad thing. Then in the '50s schools were desegregated and equal but separate was done away with. Then in the '60s the Great Society was born and since that time, we have spent 6 trillion dollars, affirmative action, and blacks vote in record numbers and wield political clout far beyond their representative numbers. That should also be a good thing but what is the result? We are even more segregated than we were in 1948, blacks are just as poor as they were in 1948, blacks vote 97% democrat, blacks have the poorest test scores in the nation and 13% of the population is responsible for over 50% of the crime. Now you tell me, what possible good has come from all of this and when do the democrats and Blacks finally stop blaming someone else for these failures?
Actually, it has to come from the voters. To do that, you have to give the voters a choice. The choice we tried to give them was of a party that takes the High Road or a party that takes the Low Road. Finally, the public is taking the High Road again. However, you don't have to woo the voters solely by taking the High Road -- you can also point out those who are on the Low Road, and the Low things that they do there.
The Democrats didn't dig up dirt on Lott until he handed them the shovel.
We don't know that. A lot of stories are popping up quite rapidly. I'm guessing that they're getting a wee bit of help. Also, I wouldn't characterize Lott's gaffe as a shovelful, more like a spoonful. The Democrats are making hay with it. They run the risk of over-reaching.
-PJ
Right. Simple reporting. That's all that Drudge did.
If Drudge just "reported" every story the way he pushed this one, he would have large print and sirens all the way down the page.
Incidentally, however, you DO raise a good point: Where are the media when the likes of Sen Byrd or CBS's Mike Wallace make egregiously racially-tinged comments?
I mean, since I infer you to mean that the media are actually doing their job on this matter -- evenhandedly and dispassionately, and all.
No, YOU look at reality, pal. You can't defend Lott's statement, unless you honestly think that government-enforced racial segregation is an absolute good.
Yes in 1948 there was segregation in this country and it was a very tough time for blacks. That was a bad thing.
I'd believe these two sentences
Then in the '50s schools were desegregated and equal but separate was done away with.
And Lott expressed a wish for Strom to have been President at that time. Great idea.
Then in the '60s the Great Society was born and since that time, we have spent 6 trillion dollars, affirmative action, and blacks vote in record numbers and wield political clout far beyond their representative numbers.
You're starting to wander off into the realm of silliness here. The 1960s were not a natural outgrowth of the 1950s civil rights movement.
That should also be a good thing but what is the result? We are even more segregated than we were in 1948, blacks are just as poor as they were in 1948, blacks vote 97% democrat, blacks have the poorest test scores in the nation and 13% of the population is responsible for over 50% of the crime.
And electing Strom Thurmond would have done exactly what to prevent all this?
Sheesh, you'd have a Vietnam-style guerrilla war in Mississippi through the 1960s that we'd STILL be recovering from.
Now you tell me, what possible good has come from all of this and when do the democrats and Blacks finally stop blaming someone else for these failures?
And this is where you went into abject stupidity.
There is but one person responsible for this mess, and you're very busy supporting him.
Get a frickin' clue, most of America that can remember the Dixiecrats and the dog-and-firehose phase of the civil rights movement supported the civil rights movement, and they think that the result, as a whole, was favorable. There's something about watching peaceful marchers getting the living crap beaten out of them on the evening news that kinda takes the bloom off the rose of segregation, pal.
The media's failure to do their job in these cases does not make Drudge's doing his fundamentally evil.
Time Out! If effective leadership is now the standard, 96% of the democRAT Senators must resign also.
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