[Bluntpoint]

"under our judicial system one is innocent until proven guilty. "

Well, politics is not a court of law. If I had been Lott's attorney, and the party would have been a criminal trial, I would have informed him not to testify in his own behalf. Once the defendant testifies on his own behalf, the floodgates have been opened. The prosecutor can practically bring anything into evidence to impeach the defendant's veracity.

[Ken in Eastman]

Just in case you missed it:

Your interpretation of Lott's remarks leaves much to be desired. Lott has not stated he endorsed the Dixiecrat platform. You keep saying that he has done so and that is false.

To state a Strom Thurmond administration would have been better than a Harry Truman administration is not the same as an endorsement of the Dixiecrat platform. You can twist it, stretch it and torture it, but you cannot make it the same.

Good night.