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Is Dick Durbin a Racist?
Holder, Clyburn, and Sharpton silent at double-standard for Clinton and Burris.
Let’s take Attorney General Holder up on his advice. No cowards needed in discussing race.
Got it.
So. The Democrats’ Illinois Senator Dick Durbin refused to vote to oust a white president from office when, as the whole world knew, said president had lied about his role in the federal crime of sexual harassment. Yet when a black U.S. Senator, Durbin’s Illinois colleague Roland Burris, is accused — with as yet unproven allegations — of lying to the Illinois House of Representatives, Durbin wants said black Senator’s resignation post-haste.
Well now. Isn’t that white of him.
And where, pray tell, is the ever vigilant Reverend Al Sharpton? Last seen protesting as racist a New York Post cartoon that portrayed the writer of the stimulus bill (that would be a white woman by the name of Nancy Pelosi) as the now infamous Travis the Chimp, Sharpton is curiously silent on the Durbin double standard.
So too is South Carolina Congressman and House Majority Whip James Clyburn silent about the stand taken by Durbin, Clymer’s Whip counterpart over in the Senate. Clymer, a former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, has only days ago made accusations that the Republican governors of Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana (the latter, Governor Bobby Jindal, is a son of Indian immigrants and thus a “person of color” as the liberal phrase goes) are racist. Why? Because they are considering refusing stimulus money and their states have a considerable number of African-American citizens. Notably, he ignored the same stance when it turned out to be taken by Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin. In the world of racial bean counting, apparently Eskimos aren’t worth the rhetorical effort.
Last but certainly not least, where is Eric Holder himself, the first African-American Attorney General of the United States?
What, specifically, is the Durbin standard on lying if you are a public official?
Back in the paleo-era known as the Clinton administration (for late comers Mr. Clinton is the spouse of the current Secretary of State), the President was on trial in the U.S. Senate after having received a vote to impeach him in the House. The charges against President Clinton in 1999 said, among other things, that he had “engaged personally, and through his subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or scheme designed to delay, impede, cover up, and conceal the existence of evidence and testimony related to a Federal civil rights action brought against him in a duly instituted judicial proceeding.”
This was a charge that, in his own fashion, Clinton had confessed to when he had taken to the TV airwaves in August of 1998 (pre-YouTube) and confessed that yes, indeed, he had spent months lying about his relationship with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. He had also be en, ah, less than truthful on the subject of his relationship as Governor of Arkansas with a young state employee named Paula Jones. Ms. Jones had sued in federal court for sexual harassment. All this, at the time of the Senate vote as to whether Clinton should be forced from office, was very much public knowledge. Indeed, in April of 1999, a mere two months after Durbin voted against taking any action that would remove Clinton, and opposing a resignation or even censure, a federal district judge cited Clinton for contempt of court for what the judge called a “willful failure” to testify truthfully in her courtroom on the Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Said the judge of Clinton:
Simply put, the president’s deposition testimony regarding whether he had ever been alone with Ms. [Monica] Lewinsky was intentionally false, and his statements regarding whether he had ever engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky likewise were intentionally false.…
Clinton’s actions were so egregious that he was ordered to pay a $90,000 fine and his Arkansas law license was suspended for five years. The suspension automatically triggered a similar suspension from the bar of the United States Supreme Court, an action that caused Clinton to resign from the high court’s bar altogether.
Now.
Senator Burris, a black man and the only black in the U.S. Senate, stands accused of changing his story about how he came to be appointed to the Senate by the disgraced and now impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Testifying to the Illinois House of Representatives committee that recommended the governor’s impeachment, Burris claimed he had no contact with the Governor’s aides nor had he offered anything to the governor’s camp in return for the appointment. Like Clinton, however, Burris eventually changed his story, admitting in an affidavit that yes, indeed, he had not only spoken to several of the governor’s aides he had also spoken to the governor’s brother Robert in response to three contacts concerning fundraising. Whether Burris, like Clinton, did anything legally wrong — whether he lied under oath as did Clinton — is yet to be determined. A lawyer and former state attorney general (as was Bill Clinton), Burris, unlike Clinton, has not had his Illinois law license suspended nor has his ability to practice in front of the U.S. Supreme Court been questioned.
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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St. Thor| 2.26.09 @ 7:06AM
Is Dick Durbin a racist? Of course, he is. He's a Liberal isn't he?
stu.b.con| 2.26.09 @ 7:38AM
The record is clear and yet the conventional wisdom is the opposite...what a propaganda machine!
How are they going to maintain their power base if they don't keep them in their place?
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Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 9:47AM
This piece is at written at something like the seventh grade level.
Perhaps Americans are not cowards when it comes to discussing race. (I thought that remark was a little overheated.) But certainly some are ridiculously immature.
Does Durbin show "racism" by urging Burris to resign, even though he did not vote (along with the majority of the Senate) to convict Bill Clinton?
Great. A fresh victory for sophistry. The most complex, tragic, and darkest strand in our history reduced to a single spurious comparison.
Comments in the thread are -- not surprisingly -- even more juvenile.
Is Durbin a racist? "Of course," we're told, "He's a liberal."
Yes, indeed. Remember all those other liberal racists, like Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Conservatives rightly warn against the dangers of historical revisionism. It turns out they're guilty of it quite often.
Mike M| 2.26.09 @ 10:01AM
While everything Mr. Lord writes is correct. (ex. The Democtats and the KKK- see Robery Byrd) The reason Burris is expendable is he is not liberal enough, or gay enough. Whatever tribute to Obama is desired, Burris apparently isn't giving it.
Hence, he must be destroyed.
Gill O’Teen| 2.26.09 @ 10:04AM
For the bullfrog’s benefit, I looked up the definition of ‘racist’. My computer’s copy of The Merriam-Webster Dictionary does not have a distinct definition for ‘racist’, but defines ‘racism’ as “A belief that some races are by nature superior to others; also: discrimination based on such belief”. It does include ‘racist’ at the end of the ‘racism’ definition implying that a ‘racist’ is anyone who believes that some races are by nature superior to others or discriminates based on such belief. (Sorry for the redundancy, I’m trying to help out the bullfrogs.)
Personally, I base my definition on ‘racism’ on these words spoken by Martin Luther King Jr.: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Wow! What an archaic concept. We should judge people on what they say or do, not on epidermal pigmentation. So my simpler definition of racist is anyone who makes a decision or takes an action based on another’s hue.
In practice, anyone who voted against obumah because his father’s family passed him a set of dark-skinned genes is a racist. However, I also consider anyone who voted for him because his father’s family passed him a set of dark-skinned genes a racist (drat, another redundancy).
I did not vote for obumah, but that does not make me a racist, since his communist sympathies (praising the Chinese Communist government, his spread-the-wealth mentality, and his birds-of-a-feather buddies), and lack of constitutional knowledge as evidenced by his votes in the illinois senate to allow newborn U.S. citizens to die and his silence on the attempts to suppress The First Amendment committed by his supporters more than disqualifies him to occupy the oval office. I could go on, but as I’m simply rehashing what is common knowledge to anyone with a clue (which probably excludes bullfrogs), I won’t.
Consider these words from the true Messiah taken from The Gospel According to Mark:
“7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
As I ‘commented’ yesterday, “I don't get it. Burris, allegedly, is simply another corrupt American with African Ancestors from the cesspool of Chicago politics. Exactly what in my preceding sentence disqualifies him from the U.S. Senate or even the U.S. Presidency?”
No one replied. Maybe Holder is right.
Let's have a Tea Party!
Vietnam Vet in Communist MA| 2.26.09 @ 10:06AM
Jeremiah: Martin Luther King Jr. -- a liberal? I thought he was a Republican!!!!!
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Havoc| 2.26.09 @ 10:28AM
Lying democrats is not news. It's a given.
Alan Brooks| 2.26.09 @ 11:22AM
race has become so boring. race, sex, it is all so empty now. life doesn't go out with a whimper, it goes out with a yawn.
naturally, dopemiah uses LBJ as some sort of role model, or perhaps not, it is hard to tell with the dope. sure, LBJ was no racist, but that was his only redeeming trait.
Martin Luther King was a philanderer, but that is okay by Libs because you can be a little wild unless you are Larry Craig in a men's room and then you are called a freak.
you can do anything you like now as long as it is PC.
JeffW| 2.26.09 @ 11:36AM
Durbin may or may not be a racist but he is egotistical, the reason he spoke out against Burris and not Clinton is due to theegg on his face. Durbin spoke up for Burris before the confirmation and believed what Burris told him. Now the story has changed and Durbin is left looking foolish and out of touch with his local politics. Durbin is nothing if not a Chicago political crony which means it's payback time. It really is that simple.
Jeffrey Lord| 2.26.09 @ 11:46AM
Jeremiah...
Ahhhh...not to put to fine a point on it, but the reason Martin Luther King had to do what he did is because, yes, Eleanor Roosevelt (who's husband quite eagerly served under segregationist Woodrow Wilson) and LBJ (himself a segregationist Congressman and Senator) spent the bulk of their careers (along with many, many other Dems) turning a blind eye to segregation, lynching etc etc in return for the ability to wield political power....The historical revisionism here is yours....
Son of Sam | 2.26.09 @ 11:56AM
Eric Holder claims we are cowards because we are afraid to discuss race. OK, here's my nickel's worth:
The ObamaNazis are the MOST RACIST administration in our history
This regime and it's amen chorus in the lapdog media have been telling us since day one that no criticism of this administration can be tolerated because of the "historic" nature of the Obama Presidency. Well, we've had Democrat Presidents before, and we've had liberals from both parties occupy the White House. We've even had fellers from the Midwest before. The only thing that's "historic" about this foreign demagogue masquerading as President is the color of his skin. In other words, "don't talk back, because he's black". Sounds like they're strangling free speech even before the "fairness" doctrine is rammed right through the First Amendment.
Racist. Plain and simple
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S.O.S.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 12:08PM
There you are, Mr. Lord. "Son of Sam" backs you up and goes you one more: now we learn that the "nazis" in the Obama administration are the "most racist in our history!"
FDR (but not his wife) and Johnson were not born desegregationists, to be sure. However, both came to see the general tide of American history as moving toward desegregation, political equality, and so on. Johnson signed the civil rights act of '64 into law, taking some political risk to do so (although admittedly not as much as is often claimed).
Now, your much-cited and harped upon observation that the Democrats in the old south supported segregation while the Republicans (IN THE NORTH) opposed it is certainly true.
You'll be wise to observe the so-called "southern strategy" as another historical fact not to be revised out of existence, whereby the Republicans significantly changed their tune on the topic of segregation and absorbed the southern Democrats who had fled the increasingly desegregationist party.
In essence, the constituencies of the parties changed enormously in the 60s, and those who were once bigoted Democrats found themselves more comfortable among the Republicans.
It's an ugly part of the past for BOTH parties, I'm afraid. You brought it up.
Trotter| 2.26.09 @ 12:08PM
"The most complex, tragic, and darkest strand in our history"
Wow, hyperbole much?
BTW, if you don't have a clue about LBJ's background, you might not want to use him in the context that you have.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 12:14PM
I guess I would do what most here would not and hurry in to say that I do NOT believe that the current Republican party (or Democratic party) is "racist," although both certainly do give aid and comfort to racists.
I think some posters here are racist, but they find no support by the major figures in the Republican party or conservative movement, as far as I can tell. Rush Limbaugh, George W Bush, and Bobby Jindal hardly seem like spokespersons for racism to me.
I say this, but I also remember how easy it was for Sarah Palin to be tone deaf on this issue, as when she visited the sparsely populated "white" regions of Virginia and called them "real" America, as opposed to the densely populated and racially diverse parts of the state where she and McCain were significantly behind. Whatever. It's not that big of a deal to me, and a black man won the election by 6 or so million votes.
I'd say from now on Jackson, Sharpton, J. Wright, and others will not find the same audience or hold the same authority they once did. As ugly as racism is and was, the issue is permanently changed because of Obama -- but also because of Colin Powell, Rice, Steele and others.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 12:17PM
Trotter --
Anyone who knows anything about American history would describe my figuration as litotes, not hyperbole.
But there's no arguing for taste.
Truth to Power| 2.26.09 @ 12:21PM
The left uses race as a weapon against their Republican neighbors. They didn't care about Obama's racist church and never cared about the various antics of Sharpton, Jackson or for that matter the KKK like beliefs of Black Muslims. Like most of their core principles, they are just ways to power.
tonypal| 2.26.09 @ 12:21PM
Jeremiah:
I think the point of the article is that liberals will use this type of double standard, as applied by Durbin, to paint conservatives as racist. There are liberals all over this website who accuse people like me of racism simply because I stand in opposition to the policies of Obama.
Texas Male | 2.26.09 @ 12:26PM
Our government here in the U.S. has become completely unraveled. We should all (dems and repubs) be horrified at what we are seeing.
We need a Tineman style revolt where we REFUSE to be governed in the manner we are now. I believe the distinct divisions we have politically could be an intentional ploy to keep us divided in order to prevent the united rising up that is needed for REAL change.
If we do nothing and continue to let the status quo exist, we are absolutely doomed. Maybe when the working class , you know the people who actually pay their bills and DO NOT want welfare or a nanny state, become unemployed and facing bread lines, we will see some action.
The end to the world's longest surviving democracy is coming fast.
Dustoff| 2.26.09 @ 1:00PM
Well one thing is for sure FDR had no-love for the Japanese Americans during WWII.
John Thacker| 2.26.09 @ 1:05PM
John Kass from the Chicago Tribune addressed the idea of a double standard for white and black Chicago politicians here. It's certainly true that Burris is corrupt, but so's everybody else there.
Alan Brooks| 2.26.09 @ 1:10PM
racist? who is racist anymore. even David duke can't exactly say he is racist.
in 2009 you can say "I'm a child molester", but not "I'm a racist"
that is how much things have changed.
Tim| 2.26.09 @ 1:27PM
Dick Durbin is not a racist. I seriousely doubt it.
He is an old style Chicago corrupt Hack, that is smart enough to know that you need to flush the toilet if it has fecal stuff in it because if you don't it will smell up the whole house in short order.
That is why Blago had to go ASAP.
Dick Durbin is smart enough to know that three months is a lifetime in politics and while the Obama and company Dog and Pony show is riding tall in the saddle now....things can turn on a dime by September..2009....and by then blaming Bush will have become obsolete.
What will be worse for the Dems and Obama is if the economy is still tanking this fall and if you still have Burris in there with his baggage and then if you have Franken join the circus to really stir the crap up for the Dems you then begin to get an idea of just how bad it could get for the Dems in 2010.
I would just keep running an add over and over of Pelosi jumping up and down like a yoyo during the state of the Union speech.
You can't buy political adds that good if you tried.
Heck she was a distraction for Obama.....and that is the point that Durbin is making with Burris......but I think he is the last of the political smart hacks that really understands how corrupt politics and governing supposed to work.
So the good news for the Reps is that they will regain control in 2010 primarely because the Dems in charge of the circus are two bit Clowns running a trillion dollar Dog and Pony show.
Let's not forget Biden and his gaffs as time rolls on.
The key for conservatives is to stop the Fairness Doctrine and the Union Card check legislation.
and keep reporting the facts.......
All these other Trillion money deals will blow up in the Dems face.....it's a no brainer.
That's all the Reps have to really do to insure total victory in 2010 and 2012.
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Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 1:45PM
It's necessary to temper your view of these issues with a historical perspective.
True, in an ideal universe, abstracted from everything, racism would simply be any judgment of any individual based on their skin color or other "racial" characteristics.
(We now know, of course, because of genetics, that there is no such thing as "race" per se: George W Bush and Barack Obama of genetically so similar that it no longer makes any sense to speak of them as different "races.")
However, considering the history of this country, that ENSLAVED blacks for three hundred years, and compelled them to live as second class -- third class -- citizens for another one hundred years, the word "racism" means something quite different for blacks than it does for whites.
Again, you have to engage in daring and sophistical acrobatics to escape this idea.
Touchez, though, on FDR's racism when it comes to Japanese. There's no disputing it. Nor is their disputing the fact that we eagerly dropped atomic bombs on Japanese people we probably would have hesitated to drop in Europe. But who knows.
Old Guy| 2.26.09 @ 2:03PM
I don't think race has anything to do with it. Durbin probably knows that, if the situation goes on too long, an Obama connection will sure pop up.
Gill O’Teen| 2.26.09 @ 3:07PM
bullfrog,
My trusty Merriam-Webster again:
1) hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech.
2) litotes: understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in not a bad singer” or “not unhappy”).
Methinks Trotter has you pegged.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he’s no friend of mine.
I never understood a single word he blogged,
and I hate to read his whine.
He always wrote a mighty dumb whine
Sing it:
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now.
Joy to the lemmings in the deep blue sea.
obumah’s joy to you and me.
Invest in precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and lead.
Let's have a Tea Party!
Dustoff| 2.26.09 @ 3:28PM
Jere
Nor is their disputing the fact that we eagerly dropped atomic
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O-brother.
Get your facts right would ya. After island hopping and losing many men as we did. The last thing our gererals and the W/H wanted to do was go into mainland Japan. The proof is their if you wish to look it up. Japan was not going to let us walk into Japan without a huge cost in American lives. I just love it when fools like you and others use this stupid canard.
Tim| 2.26.09 @ 4:48PM
In a straight up senate ammendment vote to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine" held today the vote was I believe 87-11 not to bring it back. WoW
And in a Dick Durbin ammendment to "Encourage Fairness" (back door attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine) it only passed 57-41 which is not filibuster proof.
I am encouraged that in a straight up black and white vote battle over this issue the people that want to limit speech don't have the votes and don't have them by a country mile.
And if they don't have the votes now.....they will never have the votes.....because as Obama's charm starts to erode, politicians won't touch this issue with a ten foot pole.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 4:51PM
Gill --
Probably want to consider holding onto your day job. But if poetry's your thing, keep at it!
However, when it comes to weilding terms from ancient rhetoric, take heed of the master, and Trotter by no means had him pegged. Depend upon it.
I do commend you for looking up the term, however.
Dustoff --
My only point (and here perhaps I was engaging with hyperbole) was that in comparison with the extent to which we would have considered dropping the bomb in Europe, the celerity with which we decided to drop it on Japan was "eager."
I think many people were horrified by the bomb; sad to say, Truman was rather uncircumspect about it.
You should listen to MacNamara's reminiscences in Fog of War. The people planning all the bombings were incredibly callous about Japanese civilian death tolls.
I do understand your point, and I do know that an invasion of Japan may have been extremely destructive to US forces. That idea has been debated by historians, but I think we can agree that's what most people at the time believed, which is the important thing.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 4:54PM
Gill --
Litotes more generally means "understatement," which includes affirmation by negating negation but other figurations as well.
Here is an example of litotes you've heard before: "One atom bomb can ruin your whole day."
ruth| 2.26.09 @ 5:06PM
Mr. Smug, liberal Bill Moyers the special assistant to LBJ, requested an FBI dirt digging investigation of Martin Luther King in the 1960's. Big time racist.
Dustoff| 2.26.09 @ 5:11PM
Jere
You should listen to MacNamara's reminiscences in Fog of War.
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Ahhhhhh no. As someone who went thru Nam and because of his dumb ideas cost many lives. He's the last person I would take info from. I'm not 18 there bud.
Jeremiah| 2.26.09 @ 5:41PM
Dustuff --
Thank you for your service. I was in the Army, but it was during peace time.
MacNamara's advice to Johnson was horrendous, as you know well.
In Fog of War, he is responding to a pretty tough interviewer, and he pretty much admits that the policy governing how that war was fought was terrible.
During WWII MacNamara worked for the Air Corps as a bean-counter who basically tried to make bombing runs of Japan more deadly. It is hair-raising to listen to him tallying how many dead they thought they could get per gallon of fuel, and that's part of the interest of the documentary. It's definitely not a celebration of MacNamara.
Alan Brooks| 2.26.09 @ 6:52PM
as long as long as someone isn't racist, they can get a pass.
my parents thought OJ deserved to be acquitted in '95 because he was black, and also because Nicole nagged him.
Alan Brooks| 2.26.09 @ 7:03PM
today if you go to a big eight campus and say
"i smoke dope and have herpes"
they'll say "oh how nice".
if you say you are a racist they look at you as if you were Dracula.
TJK| 2.26.09 @ 10:39PM
No, Durbin's not a racist. He's just a moron. He's good at talking out of both sides of his mouth, and he's the quintessential windsock. Although he is right about one thing, Burris must go, especially in light of the latest revelation that Ro Burris II was given a job by Blago. Clearly now there is proof that Burris lied in his testimony before the Impeachment Committee, and in his attempt to "clean up" his testimony in the affidavit that the Dems tried to bury. What a tangled web they have woven. Burris needs to go, and Durbin should be next. And while we're at it, Daley, Stroger and many of the hacks in the IL legislature who stood by Blago in his re-election campaign, and that sadly includes Quinn. Where was he when there was proof that Blago had already been under investigation by the US Attorney before the 2006 election?
Don| 2.27.09 @ 7:12AM
Clinton and Burris are apples and oranges. Clinton was hounded by people that hated him. His enemies hated him so much that they used everything even a sexual indiscretion to get him into court. Durbin like other democrats at that time thought (rightly) that he should not ever had been brought into court.
The black community which supported Clinton thought the same as Durbin that politcal hacks used bogus laws and tactics to lynch Clinton.
Many blacks and whites thought right wingers like yourself when they could not beat Clinton at the polls tried to do it through the courts.
Sen. Burris on the other hand got into his mess on his on volition. No one drug him into court. No special prosecuter was sent after him. He wanted the position so much he left out, omitted or lied about all he knew.
To go back and try to link racist history to one party and to accuse people like Durbin to Bull Connors is just plain crazy.
Don| 2.27.09 @ 7:24AM
Jeff Lord, is now an activist against racisim. LOL!
Jeffrey Lord| 2.27.09 @ 10:30AM
Don....
Eh? You're suggesting I write in favor of racism? Where would that be? Please cite.
Dave Lincoln| 2.27.09 @ 12:43PM
Jeremiah, I enjoy your posts even though I disagree with you about 1/3 of the time. Maybe I don't understand exactly what you're saying about the use of the Atomic bomb during WWII, but you should know that the bomb was just finished after the war in Europe was over. That was May, 1945 as opposed to August 1945 when the two bombs were dropped over Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
BTW, development time was a whole lot quicker back then, due to lack of lawyers and environmental impact statements. I am sure you have read about the Manhattan Project, as you seem to know a lot of history. This thing went from a pipe dream to testing in just 2 or 3 years (including building the whole Oak Ridge , Tennessee plant, Hanford, Washington, testing in Alamagordo, NM, etc.
The A-bomb was not ready in time for Germany, neither the enriched uranium type as was used to level Hiroshima nor the Plutonium type used to blast Nagasaki.
I would like to see some evidence of the generals saying they would not have dropped an A-bomb onto Berlin, if one had been ready.
Otherwise, I gotta agree that this article is kind of silly. You want to see racism, just look at every affirmative action law around, look at the speech codes in colleges, etc. It's out there, and truly not many have the courage to call it what it is. So, the A.G. Holder was right about lack of courage in the same way a broken clock is right 2 times a day (or once, if on Zulu time). He is full of crap and a socialist and knows nothing about racism - it's just that he is correct that most Americans are cowards about this. In the pundit world, some exceptions I see are Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and the folks at VDare.com
ruth| 2.27.09 @ 9:51PM
Liberals make me laugh when they judge the behavior of people from the past by today's standards. Who are we to tsk tsk that Truman and our generals were callous about Japanese casualties? How can we know the horror and fear that they faced, the fury? Seems to me liberals are blind to the horrors of abortion going on right now in our country, I guess it's easier to look back 60 years in judgement of others. Look in the mirror, hypocrites.
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Dick Turnab/ Dubin is not a racist...he's just a dick.
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Turban Durbin. LOL
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