But don't forget it was President John F. Kennedy who initiated the original bill and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was the only person in his cabinet who insisted that he send it to Capitol Hill.

And it was Eisenhower who sent troops to Arkansas. What's this story supposed be about?

Giblet: Hillary is another JFK in the same way that Cheney is another Jessica Alba.

I liked Cheney better when he did romantic comedies.

generaltimmy: None of these are like the others. At least JFK believed in lower taxes. I am sure that Obama and Edwards don't run trains on Hollywood actresses then have them killed.

What?

Hang On Voltaire: Dinjiin:


The article associates Goldwater with "racist white Southerners". However, was his opposition to federal civil rights legislation due to old fashioned racism or because he perceived such laws as unconstitutional?

Don't you know? If you oppose any every piece of legislation that contains the words "Civil Rights" you are a racist

FTFY

"A lot of so-called conservatives today don't know what the word means," he told the Los Angeles Times in a 1994 interview. "They think I've turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the religious right. It's not a conservative issue at all."

During the 1990s, Mr. Goldwater spoke out in favor of allowing gays to serve in the military, and he worked in Phoenix to end job discrimination against gays. In 1994, he became honorary chairman of a drive to pass a federal law preventing job discrimination against gays.

"The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay," he said. "You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it."