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Lott's attitude and record on civil rights became a burning issue last week because of what he said at a 100th-birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond. Former majority leader Bob Dole had set the stage nicely with a tribute to the wizened, wheelchair-bound Thurmond, a South Carolinian born when "America had yet to honor the promise of equal opportunity for all our citizens." A fiery segregationist for most of his career, Thurmond eventually embraced the extension of the Voting Rights Act and the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and thus came to symbolize, Dole said...
...didn't mean it." And surely he didn't mean it, at least consciously. Even if he is a racist, he had no reason to want to say so. Lott must sincerely and understandably feel blindsided. Since when are the fawning remarks of some politician at another politician's birthday party taken seriously? That's cheating! An editorial in the Washington Post asks, If he didn't mean what he said, what did he mean? The answer is, he meant nothing at all. Lott, as a Senator whose intellectual integrity may fall only slightly below the median, does not place...
Trent Lott is not having a very happy holiday season. With leading Republicans lining up to denounce his comments at a Strom Thurmond birthday event, the beleaguered Mississippi Senator is facing an uncertain political future. Will he stay on as Senate Majority Leader, as he has repeatedly vowed? Or will his detractors get their...
...Houston Astros at my 21st birthday party, with Brad Ausmus jumping out of the cake. And while we’re on the subject, why not let Brad work his catching magic with some quality pitching besides Wade Miller and future Cy Young winner Roy Oswalt? Though he just resigned for another year, the Shaner’s back is iffy, so it can’t hurt to pick up another veteran...
...Boyle and Seidman, who celebrated their 21st birthday last Saturday, the fellowship came as a welcome birthday surprise...