Senate Majority Leader: I wish the segregationist had won!

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
George Bush the first said "No new taxes". He lied. Should he have been impeached?

Much as I would have liked to see that happen, he wasn't under oath when he said that.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Caligastia
I don't consider lying and cheating "trivial". Funny that.

Lying about a blowjob is trivial. Cheating on one's spouse is nobody's business but his and his spouse's.

Neither meets the Constitutional standard of impeachment. The House Republicans made a mockery of that standard.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Lying about a blowjob is trivial.

Just call it perjury and be more economical with your words.

[Boris Godunov]

Nah, it sounds much better to make fun of the Starr investigation for spending $50 million on a hummer.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Well, he was stupid to answer it then, wasn't he.

Hindsight is 20/20. At the time, Clinton had no reason to think they knew the truth about Lewinsky or that she had that damned stained dress that would prove it. So he figured the lie would go undetected. A miscalculation, yes. Stupid? Not really.

[asleepathewheel]

From the Washington Post:

Bush Denounces Lott's Remarks
Calls Comments 'Offensive' and 'Wrong'


Thursday, December 12, 2002; 1:15 PM


PHILADELPHIA - President Bush, in rare criticism of a fellow Republican, said Thursday it was offensive and wrong for Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to have said a segregationist candidate for president should have won in 1948.

"Any suggestion that a segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive and it is wrong," Bush said to loud and long applause in a speech about his faith-based agenda.

"Recent comments by Sen. Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country," Bush said.

Lott said Wednesday he made "a mistake of the head, not the heart" by saying last week the nation would have been better off if 1948 segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had been elected president.

He admitted the comment, made during a 100th birthday tribute to the South Carolina Republican senator, could be seen as offensive and asked for forgiveness.

"He (Lott) has apologized and rightly so. Every day our nation was segregated was a day that America was unfaithful to our founding ideals," Bush said. "And the founding ideals of our nation and in fact the founding ideals of the political party I represent was and remains today the equal dignity and equal rights of every American."



Seems that even he thought Lott was referring to the segregation issue. Hmm. does that change anyone's thinking? Or was this just typical WH spin?

edit: link wasn't working exactly correctly, so I pasted instead.

[DinoDoc]

that she had that damned stained dress

Has anyone ever figured out why she kept the thing?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
does that change anyone's thinking?

No.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

that she had that damned stained dress

Has anyone ever figured out why she kept the thing?

My hunch is it was because she was a stupid ho.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
No.

Ah, ok. I didn't think it would. After all, its all spin anyway.


Hey DD, how is that Trent Lott Leadership Institute coming along at Ole Miss? Wonder if they're rethinking that one. UM gets enough crap as it is, I would hate to see them get bad pub for having a school named after Lott. sigh.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
My hunch is it was because she was a stupid ho.

That's another thing I hold against him. The most powerful man on the planet should be able to find better looking women to have sex with. JFK had Monroe after all.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
That's another thing I hold against him. The most powerful man on the planet should be able to find better looking women to have sex with. JFK had Monroe after all.

I think that is the one thing you've said that's not debateable .

[Chris 62]

Boris, you just don't know what your talking about.

Originally posted by Boris Godunov Neither meets the Constitutional standard of impeachment. The House Republicans made a mockery of that standard.

"Section. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Perjury is a Misdemeanor, Clinton admited he lied under oath in his deposition, thus commited perjury, a Misdemeanor.

That's what Clinton was Impeached for, it was the Democrats who spit of the Constituition, which I quoted in part above, you can read it yourself if you like, Article II section 4 of the US Constitution.

http://www.rosanna.com/constitution/constit_.htm#con2.4

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Hey DD, how is that Trent Lott Leadership Institute coming along at Ole Miss? Wonder if they're rethinking that one.

I highly doubt that they are rethinking it. The Lott=racist accussation has been around for quite sometime. The only thing that I can think of that might derail it is if he pulls a Byrd and starts talking about n****** on the Senate floor.

[Capt Dizle]

I wonder how many people here were alive when Strom ran for President.