Where did all of the segregationalists go a generation ago when the Dems endorsed civil rights? That’s right, Republican Party.
Where do you find there organizations? Red States.
It’s a natural coupling. Embrace it. Your party has since the Southern Stratedy of 1968.

You are the party of racists and bigots, not the GOP.

Uh, no, I just think “liberal freakshow” when I read the remainder of the adjectives. It’s telling what you think it means, though.

Remember the RNC ad two years ago against Howard Dean? This old couple told him to take his ‘tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte drinking, sushi eating, Volvo-driving, NY Times-reading, body-piercing hollywood-loving leftwing freakshow back to VT, where it belongs’

The first two are definitly aimed at real conservatives but, the rest rely on what ignorant folks beleive to be stereotypical of liberal, jews and gays.

They do it over and over again and never have to be called to the mat therefore never having to apologize but, still reap in the bigot vote with it.

Oooh, an ad hominem attack! I must’ve really pushed a button here. Earth to DJZ, you might want to look up at the length and detail of your own posts in this very comment section before you accuse someone else of obsessing about a campaign issue.

Again, which office is Trent Lott running for in Minnesota this year? I must’ve missed that in the Strib. Along with a whole bunch else.

Lott said all of those things WHILE in office. I’d hate to see what he said and thought as a student in Mississippi during the wonderful 50′s and 60′s or as an aide to a Democrat Congressman who was a segregationalist and switched to the more welcoming Republican Party.

You see, as a legislator, Keith has been great. Lott has not. As a student, Keith had some questionable associations, Lott is unknown but, did go off and work for a racist before succeeding to his seat.

Keith seemed to have drifted away from any inclings of those groups long before he had a spotlight on him. Lott got caught, and then refused to apologize and was forced to.

Jackson- leader during the civil rights movement, successful rescuer of captured and kidnapped Americans, lifetime fighter for equality- made a comment and then immediatly apologized. It was immediatly accepted and understood. Hymie is not K***. So stop trying to equalize the two.

Northsider, you obsess over Keith so much, are you happy in your marriage?

You spend an awful lot of effort dredging up quotes/incidents from the background of Trent Lott (who is not running for office in Minnesota), but you are not concerned at all about the decade-long (at least) association between Keith Ellison and the separatist, virulently anti-Semetic Nation of Islam.

So if Lott is so bad, why are you then supporting Ellison?

Maybe because you’re a hypocrite who only cares about winning elections and doesn’t care at all about being consistent. Please, look at yourself in the mirror!!

God help us all if you ever get any meaningful political power in your life.

From a guy whose side had to go back 22 years to dredge up an old statement to use against Jesse Jackson, I find this charge laugable.

The fact that you don’t see the differences is shocking.

Our friend from the NYT is a Major League A$$ Hole regardless of his faith or ethnicity.

The Rev. and his pal Keith have a spotted history of hatred towards Jews regardless of their ethnicity.

And MN05 is getting ready to elect this clown.

The difference between Jackson’s apology and Lott’s is that Jackson was sincere with a 25 year history to back it up(for you folks that don’t know shit. Jews were on the frontlines and presenting legal help en mass during the civil rights movement).

Lott has a history that lines up with his statements. You want him to get the same slack that a Jesse Jackson gets? Get real and check out Lott’s history:

* In 1978, after his election to the US House, Lott led a successful campaign to have the US citizenship of Jefferson Davis restored. Davis lost his citizenship when he became president of the Confederate States of America when southern states were in open revolt against the US government.

* During the 1980 campaign, after Thurmond spoke at a Mississippi rally for Ronald Reagan, Lott said of the old Dixiecrat: “You know, if we had elected that man 30 years ago, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.”

* In 1981, when he was lending his prestige as a member of the US Congress to an effort to preserve the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University — the notorious South Carolina college that was under fire for prohibiting interracial dating — Lott insisted that, “Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.”

* Despite the fact that he represents the state with the largest percentage of African-American citizens in the US, Lott has throughout his career been an active supporter of the Sons of the Confederacy, a group that celebrates the soldiers who fought to defend the “right” of Mississippians to own African-Americans as slaves.” Lott even appears in recruitment videos for the group.

* Speaking at a 1984 convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Lott declared that “the spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.” Asked to explain his statement in an interview with the extreme rightwing publication Southern Partisan, Lott said, “I think that a lot of the fundamental principles that Jefferson Davis believed in are very important to people across the country, and they apply to the Republican Party… and more of The South’s sons, Jefferson Davis’ descendants, direct or indirect, are becoming involved with the Republican party.”

* Lott gave the keynote address at a 1992 national executive board meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a successor organization to the old white Citizens Councils, segregation-era groups the Southern Poverty Law Center refers to as “the white-collar Ku Klux Klan. The C of CC may have changed its name, but it remains a passionate “white racialist” group that condemns intermarriage, integration and immigration by non-whites. As Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson, who has researched the group, argues, “There is no question of the resegregationist agenda of the Council of Conservative Citizens when four of the seven links listed on the home page for former Klan leader David Duke link back to the Council of Conservative Citizens.” Other links, Jackson has noted, “deny the Holocaust and sell T-shirts with swastikas and Nazi stormtrooper symbols.” But when Lott appeared at that Greenwood, Mississippi, meeting of C of CC leaders, he did not address his disdain for racism or anti-Semitism. Rather, he discussed his concerns about “the dark forces” that he said were overwhelming America and said, “We need more meetings like this across the nation… The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let’s take it in the right direction and our children will be the beneficiaries.”

* In 1997, Lott was photographed meeting with national leaders of the C of CC in his Washington office. At his side were two prominent C of CC leaders: Gordon Baum, a former field organizer for the Citizens Councils in the days when they were referred to as the “uptown Klan,” and William Lord, who has acknowledged using the mailing lists of the Citizens Councils to build the C of CC in the 1980s and 1990s. That same year, the C of CC used an endorsement quote from Lott in recruitment literature.

* When the Washington Post began to detail Lott’s ties to the C of CC, his office announced that he had “no firsthand knowledge of the group’s views.” But when The New York Times asked Lott’s uncle, former Mississippi state Sen. Arnie Watson, a member of the C of CC executive board, about ties between the senator and the organization, Watson said, “Trent is an honorary member.” When a reporter for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger showed up at a 1998 C of CC meeting in Mississippi, he was told by those in attendance that Lott was a member. Lott’s office never challenged the report when it appeared in his homestate’s largest newspaper. But a year later, when the Washington Post took the issue up, Lott said, “I have made my condemnation of the white supremacist and racist view of this group, or any group, clear.”

* Yet, a column written by Lott still appeared on a regular basis in the Citizens Informer, the group’s publication, alongside articles thick with statements like: “Western civilization, with all its might and glory, would never have achieved its greatness without the directing hand of God and the creative genius of the white race. Any effort to destroy the race by a mixture of black blood is an effort to destroy Western civilization itself.”

So did Trent Lott but that got him nothing. What’s good for the goose…

“So, George Bush and Dick Cheney, who called Jewish New York Times reporter Adam Clymer a “Major A-Hole” are acceptable”

So that’s your best defense of Jackson being a bigot? C’mon, you can do better than this weak attempt. Calling a single jerk a name (that’s not a racial remark, but likely accurate) is not the same as calling all Jews a name. Very disappointing attempt.

Jackson’s nothing but a shakedown artist, a con man how has used his former affiliation with MLK to milk the system using race for just one purpose – his own bank account and power. It amazed me that any black person still sees any credibility in this guy.

The president has yet to apologize to the Jewish community for his comments. I think this is a sign that he is anti-semetic, and we all know that makes Mark Kennedy 93 percent anti-semetic.

Even for those who hate him- there are a couple of things on that list that are impressive.

* March 2005
The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the parents of the dying Terri Schiavo outside her hospice Tuesday, rekindling the hopes of those who believe she should be kept alive and bridging the political gap in the dispute over her manner of death.

Why would they forgive him so fast? Well, look at his history and see if any of you critics can come close to half of his service:

* October 8, 1941
Jesse Louis Burns born.

* 1956
Takes his stepfather’s name. Becomes Jesse Louis Jackson.

* Spring 1959
Graduates from Sterling High School in Greenville, South Carolina.

* Fall 1959-Spring 1960
Attends University of Illinois.

* Fall 1961
Transfers to North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College.

* December 31, 1962
Marries Jacqueline Lavinia Brown.

* April/May/June 1963
Becomes a leader of civil rights demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina.

* June 6, 1963
Arrested in Greensboro for “inciting to riot and disturbing the peace and dignity of the state.”

* May 1964
Graduates from North Carolina A & T.

* September 1964
Enters the Chicago Theological Seminary.

* March 1965
After watching ‘Bloody Sunday’ on television, Jackson is among thousands who head to Selma, Alabama. Meets Dr. King; asks him for a job.

* Spring 1966
Becomes head of Chicago chapter of SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket. Launches first economic boycott.

* Summer 1966
Jackson among the leaders of King’s open housing marches in Chicago.

* Summer of 1967
Becomes the national director of Operation Breadbasket.

* April 4, 1968
King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while there to support striking garbage workers.

* June 30, 1968
Jackson becomes an ordained minister.

* December 1971
Resigns from SCLC and starts Operation PUSH.

* Summer 1972
Jackson and William Singer unseat the Mayor Daley delegate slate at the Democratic convention in Miami.

* 1977
Founds PUSH/Excel, a program to encourage inner-city kids in their schoolwork.

* 1979
Makes controversial visit to Middle East.

* October 1983
Enters the 1984 Democratic presidential race.

* December 1983
In Syria, frees downed U.S. pilot Robert Goodman.

* February 1984
‘Hymietown’ comments reported; he apologizes.

* 1984
Founds the National Rainbow Coalition.

* March 1988
With his victory in Michigan, Jackson takes the lead in popular votes and delegates in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary. Eventually loses to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

* 1989
Moves to Washington, D.C.

* September 1991
Wins the release of hundreds of foreign nationals being held in Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.

* Fall 1991
Announces he will not run for President in 1992.

* 1996
Returns to Operation PUSH in Chicago.

* February 1997
Jackson proposes an initiative to help close the learning gap between black and white children in part by emphasizing the role of parents. He seeks pledges from approximately 40,000 black parents to become more involved with their children’s education and plans meetings with school officials from 45 cities.

* December 1997
Jackson visits Kenya as President Clinton’s “special envoy for democracy” and speaks with Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi to promote peaceful national elections.

* February 1998
Jackson returns to Kenya to help defuse ethnic tensions and keep Kenya’s democratic reforms on track.

* April 29, 1999
During the Kosovo war, Jackson leaves for Belgrade to negotiate the release of three U.S. POW’s captured on the Macedonia border while patrolling with a UN peacekeeping unit.

* May 1999
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic releases the three POW’s. After his meeting with Milosevic, Jackson urges NATO officials and Milosevic to “choose the bargaining table over the battlefield.”

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His ability to negotiate and free captured Americans from Mid-East dictators puts him heads and shoulders of this current administration.