...but if that's the case, It makes you wonder how someone can have a political life for some 25 years and never be caught with a more overt racist statement.

By now wouldn't there be folks tripping over themselves with stories about how Trent had said "that filthy n-!" or how terrible he treated so-n-so?

If the sum of his racism is embodied in the acts of his college days, or in saying aloud that he wished Thurmond had won the Presidency - he's a lot less racist than a whole heck of alot of folks I have stumbled across in my travels.

Not having grown in up in the south I probably don't have quite the same perspective on it.

I would feel a lot more comfortable if someone DID come up with a line or an incident of discrimination after his college days, besides the MLK holiday issue.

This type of canvassing the old video archives for utterances will open a whole new era in political witchhunts. The Senator's staffers will be busy getting the goods on any enemies who might try to "Trent" them out.

That's politics...a bloodsport.

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