[sweetliberty]

"but it matters not one whit what Ann says but rather this entire thing is about what Trent said."

I beg to differ with you. It had to do with what some people THOUGHT he said, or how some people INTERPRETED what he said, or what some people assumed he was THINKING when he said it, or how some people wanted other people to interpret what they SAID he said. It had very little to do with what he actually said or indeed even with what he might have meant or not meant by it. Both sides saw it as a political opportunity. Nothing more.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president (on a segregationist platform), we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead (voted for the segregationist candidate in the presidential race of 1948) we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either (what problems would those be that someone against desegregation would have solved?)."---Senator Trent Lott, Dec 2002

[deport]

Differ all you want.. but the truth is if Lott had not opened his mouth then this would have occurred.....

So like it or not it is what Lott said.....