>2 democratic senators present took nothing of coment. This gets little or no press.

With far too few exceptions, the Democraps are a bunch of spineless weasels. Just because that pair didn't say anything doesn't diminish the ignorance and hatred in Lott's statement.

>This is politics pure and simple

Yes, it is. Bush knows he needs a tad more than the 5% of the minority vote he got last go-round or there's no way (short of a completely corrupt vote count in a major electorate state plus an illegal decision by the Supreme Court) that he'll be re-elected. So Lott has become the sacrificial lamb in an effort to show how intolerant Shrub is of racial insensitivity.

And rid yourself of that "media bias" excuse. Appealing to the masses no longer involves the print media, because most Americans are semi-illiterate lazy fools that have forgotten everything they ever learned in civics class. The RepubliKlans use talk radio to rabble rouse the masses, and the only major network that is completely and unabashedly sided with a particular political party is Fox.