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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Ignorant comments? This is pretty ironic coming after Reid's negro remarks. I bet you elitists got a laugh out of that at the country club. After all it's not like some "negro" will overhear.
Hey, Ronnie P., the topic here is Palin, not Harry Reid. HOWEVER, if you wish to enter some learned comments into a discussion of Reid's remarks, you might consider going to a string in the News forum--a string YOU started ("Top Dem leader defends 'negro' remark")--where I have submitted comments that put the lie to charges of raxcism against Harry Reid. My comments have been there since 9:23 this morning and thus far no one has come forth to dispute them. Heck, I will just reproduce them here for your conmvenience and enlightenment:
<<<<When Trent Lott made his birthday tribute to Strom Thurmond, the gist of his remarks was to the effect that things would have been better in this country if Thurmond had won the Presidency in 1948.
Thurmond, in 1948, campaigned on the Dixiecrat ticket and the core of his platform was maintaining racial segregation and opposing civil rights legislaton. Linkhttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dixiecrat1.html
Lott's remarks hardly could be interpreted as other than sympathetic with that which Thurmond and the Dixicrats envisioned for the nation's future in 1948, namely a continuing racially-segregated society. The Dixiecrat Party was racist. Thurmond, as its candidate, was a racist (albeit perhaps one who reformed later on). Lott, retrospectively endorsing Thurmond's candidacy, was, ipso facto, endorsing Thurmond's racism.
In the 1948 Presidential election, Thurmond ran as a segregationist on a segregationist platform. Lott said that he was proud that Mississippi went for Thurmond in that election and that the nation would now be in better shape if Thurmond had won (instead of Harry Truman). The racist core of that comment by Lott is very clear. By contrast, Harry Reid's remarks were in a wholly different context. He made those remarks while SUPPORTING the candidacy of an African-American for President. The difference between what Lott said and what Reid said is a 180-degree difference. Lott praised the candidacy of an avowed segregationist. Reid endorsed the candidacy of an African-American.
It is absurd to equate what Reid said with Lott's glowing retrospective endorsement of Thurmond and the racist Dixicrat campaign of 1948.>>>
The floor is YOURS, Ronnie P. Have at it!