WASHINGTON (CNN) --President Bush sharply rebuked incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for comments that some have called racist, saying any suggestion that segregation was acceptable is "offensive and it is wrong."
hahahaha
WASHINGTON (CNN) --President Bush sharply rebuked incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for comments that some have called racist, saying any suggestion that segregation was acceptable is "offensive and it is wrong."
hahahaha
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he is not up to Bush's compassionism.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Dec10.html
then of course there is the video of strom back in da day:Twenty-two years ago, Trent Lott, then a House member from Mississippi, told a home state political gathering that if the country had elected segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond to the presidency "30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today." The phrasing is very similar to incoming Senate Majority Leader Lott's controversial remarks at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond last week.
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damn, he was old even back then
(above links stolen from Fark.com
Yeah...I don't think he can apologize his way out of this one at all. He's made similiar comments before so I'd say he's pretty much through. Someone stick a fork in him...he's done.
i hope he's done.Originally posted by mcs328
Someone stick a fork in him...he's done.
i've cut trent lott a lot of slack (no pun intended). through all the crap about him speaking to supposed white power groups and all that stuff, i maintained that it was just "innocent".
he was ignorant of the group's objective and he wasn't really racist or anything like that.
but this does it for me, especially with the revelation that he said THE SAME THING 20 years ago. even saying it once is inexcusable, imo. but you don't just innocently slip up without thinking about what your words really mean TWICE. you'd say something different each time.
but no, in 1980 and in 2002, trent lott seems to believe that if we had elected a segregationist and unabashed racist to the presidency, we would have eliminated "a lot of problems". WTF kind of problems do you eliminate by electing a racist?
and i hope no one pipes up with the argument that strom's campaign was all about states' rights. all you have to do is look at his campaign statements and it's obvious that it was a campaign for racism, by racism, and about racism. and if trent lott can't see that, he has more problems then just being a closet racist.
I'm probably about the most hard-core Republican here and I think it's time for him to fade away. At first I thought it was stupid that the Democrats were trying to make hay out of his dumb comment, but a lot of racist crap is starting to float to the top of Lot's political septic tank. His true colors are starting to show, and we don't need that in the Republican party.
The republican party? We don't need that in America.
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The Republican party is America, baby!Originally posted by TofuNinja
The republican party? We don't need that in America.
Not here in California, it's a Democratic stronghold... even though I hate Gray Davis. Bush doesn't have a shot in hell to win the Golden State. And California is America baby. We have the Three Time Champion Lakers (yes they are in a slump) the Team of the 80's the 49ers, the Baseball Champs The Angels, We have Disney, Magic Mountain, beaches, Ski slops, Hollywood, The Gay Bay, The WNBA champion the Sparks, the Missions, Yosemite, the UC System, and many other wonderful things. What do you have?
Oh yeah you have Jesse the Body VenturaHe rules
Cali baby!!
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it looks like most of the important cities are blue ;POriginally posted by kb0wwp
The Republican party is America, baby!
*snip*
L.A. is blue who would have thought.
it's those damn people away from the cities, and in damn flyover country that screw it up for everyone else
Looking at the map again... I think some preschool kid colored that it doesn't look right. Gore carried California... if Bush carried the Golden state then why did Florida matter....Long live those hanging Chads.
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i would contend that map is a rather poor way to give a measure of america.Originally posted by kb0wwp
The Republican party is America, baby!
*img snipped*
land area is not everything.
damn. i'm from california, and that even sounds wrong.Originally posted by TofuNinja
And California is America baby.
edit: nevermind
bleh. two sides to every story.
Last edited by Nija; 12-12-2002 at 02:47 PM.
But it sure looks cool!Originally posted by whitak24
i would contend that map is a rather poor way to give a measure of america.
land area is not everything.
More bad news about Lott:
LinkySenate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old.
The guy has got to go...
wowOriginally posted by kb0wwp
The guy has got to go...
the guy's history is like a volcano. it keeps spewing up more dirt about his past. it's unfortunate, really.
"In 1997, Lott told TIME: "Yes, you could say I favored segregation then. I don't now. … The main thing was, I felt the federal government had no business sending in troops to tell the state what to do."
Huh. Trent Lott like segregation as a way to rebel against the federal government.... this guy is nuts....
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Some mandate.
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Common sense is what tells you the Earth is flat.
LOL
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Its just him showing how loyal he is to his Republican roots. I didn't even know the guy was still alive, dang.Originally posted by TofuNinja
"In 1997, Lott told TIME: "Yes, you could say I favored segregation then. I don't now. … The main thing was, I felt the federal government had no business sending in troops to tell the state what to do."
Huh. Trent Lott like segregation as a way to rebel against the federal government.... this guy is nuts....
http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0212/12/m02b.html
nice little article about a closet racist
As others have said, if this was a one time occurence, it might be thought of a "what the hell were you thinking" moment. Even after the initial apology, {tepid & half assed}, then everyone would move eventually on. But since its happened repeatly, time for Lout to step down. Even Thurmond decades ago discarded the discredited policies the Dixiecrats stood for.
editorial Apology not good enough
Its up to Mississippians in 2006 to dump the Lout.
Never did like that guy, too much of a slickster.
We need to move on, but I didn't believe Sen. Lott's apology...
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Because the parts of California that Bush carried are all desert. If you look at the map, LA and the Bay area and I think SD were all carried by the Dems. The only thing left is grape vines and desert.Originally posted by TofuNinja
Looking at the map again... I think some preschool kid colored that it doesn't look right. Gore carried California... if Bush carried the Golden state then why did Florida matter....Long live those hanging Chads.
Disclaimer - The above opinion should not be taken as medical advise. My only advise is to talk to your doctor. If you are stupid enough to take anything I say seriously, you have nobody to blame for your cranio-anal inversion but your stupid self.
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