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A panel discussion on CNN’s The Lead examined the impact that Wednesday’s speeches and celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement’s march on Washington D.C. When asked why so few Republicans attended the rally and none spoke, the panel displayed a surprising lack of knowledge as to why that was the case. When asked why Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only sitting African-American U.S. Senator, was not invited to speak, one guest displayed a measure of disdain for the “appointed” Senator. A discussion about the impact of the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech...

<p>DeWayne Wickham echoed a concern of many in the anti-Bush media community when he presented events in US history as support for the suspicion that, all administration promises to the contrary, we really do intend to use post-war Iraq as a Mid-East foothold. Oh, he wasn't the raving maniac Maureen Dowd has been, Her Dowdiness tagging the "Bushies" with the word "imperialist" at least three times in her last column, bringing back 40-year-old memories of the commie phrase "imperialist dogs" that was spat at America in those days. The commies, of course, never expressed an imperialist ideology by conquering anyone...did they? Well, while DeWayne didn't use the word "imperialist", the inferrence was there. But at least he backed his theory with a little history, selective though it may have been.</p>