"...can hardly complain about similarly demeaning terms now."

Wanna bet?

In a 1947 letter, after Mr. Byrd had been elected to the state senate, he wrote that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

The New York Times reported in 1971 on a letter Mr. Byrd wrote in 1946, after leaving the Klan. Writing to the Klan's Imperial Wizard, Mr. Byrd identified himself as a former Kleagle and recommended a person to serve as state Klan coordinator. He wrote, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. . . . It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W.Va?"

So I guess Byrd, as one of the most "respected" democrats (as per Mr. Dowd), is certainly qualified to lead the Democratic effort against Rice.

And the NY Times and Democrats in general had taken "serious issue" with Lott's comments. Jeeze.

We're not angry, you crappy little Walmart-shopping redneck Jesuslanders.

NOT FUNNY, I DON'T GET IT.

Before someone starts to cry, re-read the link below. :)

http://www.ledgeofliberty.com/2004/07/usa_today_rejec.html

bsp --you forgot this gem:

"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."

Byrd interview with Tony Snow, 2001.

"The Left is angry; in fact, it's addled."

Now, now, Ace. That's just your 'cognitive dissonance' talking.

Mwaaa haa haa

Reinforces my theory that liberalism / leftism is more a mental disorder than an ideology.

/Happy Left

That was the reaction I was going for. :)

"The study (link in PDF) finds that the two counties with the lowest "mental health scores" are Alameda, which includes Berkeley, and San Francisco, which is coterminous with the city."

This is news?

Must be something in the water.

Over a million two hundred thousand hits. Geez...

Lefty's mental state certainly would explain their amazing ability to ignore logic and/or reasoning. And of course their ability to analogize completely unrelated things.

Um, be careful not to paint with a wide brush. I live in San Francisco and, I'm being totally serious here, I think the question of mental health is a loaded one. On one hand we have one of the largest homeless populations in the country who are laying in their own shit and eating garbage, then you have quiet, close nit Chinese (Not Chinatown) neighborhoods where the people are functioning very well. Then, we have our hippy, communist sections in contrast to the 3rd largest financial center in the US. I think this study may be a victim of outliers more than a study of who voted for who.

On the other hand, those people in Berkeley are just frickin' nuts...

Yeah, but consider WHY you have all of those insane derelicts. Because they've been chased out of more sensible communitites that won't tolerate their behavior and won't operate containment facilites for them when San Francisco will do it for the price of a bus ticket.

"HR 30221 is proceding directly to conference, no time to waste", a staffer to a House of Representatives member said earlier. Known as the Shrinks for Deranged Democrats Bill, the effort would boost medical benefits for phyciatric services for a number of current and former Government employees.

"How can anybody argue with it..." he went on to say. "Look at Kennedy, Gore, Mathews, Dean, Boxer
not mention Air America. You could lose half the party to Bellview, then who would we have to beat?"