<Your analogy equating a black voter and a white segregationist with preschoolers, one a bedwetter and the other a bully, and the Democratic party with the adult authority figure in the room says more about your opinion of black voters and white segregationists than I ever could.

But it was a good analogy and brought the point home pretty well didn't it?

Patronization of African Americans is exactly the point.

In my analogy the bully was just a bully - and the kid who was called names wasn't a bed wetter or wore a diaper, but the bully liked to tease him and the others laughed and smirked when he did.

If one is an African American just imagine how it feels to wake up to the old segregation bit on the news in the morning? Just as soon as you feel normal, your kids have always felt normal and suddenly someone reminds you that in some folks mind you are subhuman - or worse are somehow, still today, needing protection from some 100 year old guy's political views?

I do praise Daschle. He knows Trent and knows that he probably wasn't thinking much about the segregation aspects of Strom's politics at all. After all for over thirty years Strom pioneered the way by hiring African American aides, assistants, etc. to work for him.

No one but Lott knows whether he was specifically referring to segregation conflicts.

The line would be equally applicable to the Korean disaster, MacArthur fiasco and the Rosenbergs and others stealing our atomic secrets causing untold tension. I myself would rather have had Dewey elected, than Truman as did most conscientious folks at the time also believe. But Truman was chosen by Roosevelt because he was the "Dan Quayle" of the 1940's - no threat - and he was a lightweight. Roosevelt kept Truman completely out of the loop during the war. Truman was a do-nothing VP in the most honorable tradition.

Yes Strom Thurmond was a segregationist in an era when every magazine still sold whiskey by showing it presented by a black servant, when Aunt Jemima still looked like she was on the plantation, and folks like Al Jolson were still applying blackface to entertain.

It would be more bizarre to find a southern politician who was not a segregationist. After all the politicians represent to a large degree their constituents - and in 1948 in the south nearly everyone was completely racist.

However, again - Strom's 100th birthday has been hijacked. He's been cast in amber in 1948 and some folks don't want 2002 politics. The democrats would be much happier if they could all run against 1948 politicians.

Do you really think Trent would be so dumb as to go before PBS and the media - in front of Clarence Thomas - and spout a pro-segregationist line?!

He would have to be an absolute moron. And Trent is clearly not an absolute moron.

Innocent until proven guilty. Daschle knows it. Gore does not. Gore is grabbing at straws like the other parasites - he couldn't give a rat's rump about any African American who might have happened to be watching PBS and offended by Trent's comments, you know it, I know it and he knows it.

For some folks:

Patronizing = empowerment

Well, I gotta roll...

Good morning Mary Anne!

SDAI-Tech1

PS
I am not about party advantage...and you know that as well.