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Date Posted: 06:02:47 12/23/02 Mon
Author: bfny
Subject: your entire post was wasted energy
In reply to: Gee I wonder why anybody would have resigned 's message, "BFIH" on 22:41:31 12/20/02 Fri

I expect more from you, BFIH, than knee-jerk assumptions and accusations rooted in the past. The Democrats did not bring Trent Lott down, nor did the "liberal media" which initially gave the entire story a free pass. It was the Republicans themselves and the conservative pundits who were responsible for Lott's demise. Most of it was orchestrated by the White House (very deftly I must add). Trent Lott had to go not because Jesse and Al said he had to go (that probably helped him) but because George Bush, Colin Powell, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News Channel and the New York Post, among many, said he had to go. And you know as well as I do that there was nothing that compelled those people/media outlets to speak out. No one expected, assumed or even hinted that it was Powell's duty to speak out on the issue. He had to go because he was distracting from the White House's agenda. He had to go because he was the second ranking Republican and he was projecting an image at odds with the whole compassionate conservative ethos. Such a political philosophy doesn't really work when one of your leaders is pining for the days of "separate but equal."

I also expect more from you (and LS) than trotting out Byrd when one of your guys is in trouble. That's no way to defend somebody -- by saying, well your guys do it too. Byrd was not a leader of his party. And please cut the PBhead/CaB crap of pretending that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the designated spokespeople for the Democratic party. They most certainly are not. You don't see me quoting your most outspoken, publicity-hungry, far-right personalities every time a Democrat is in hot water. It's distasteful, I tell you.

And the double-standard stuff is bullsh!t. Look at the crap Clinton was put through throughout his entire Presidency. Whitewater. Travelgate. The entire Starr inquiry. There was a nonstop witch hunt on and the bounty was his and his wife's head. Washington is a low-down, savage place. No side is immune from having their mistakes blown out of proporation or from having the media cover their troubles 24/7. Get over it, man

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