"The thing I find funny is that people think the "macaca" comment was racist."

Are you really THAT ill-informed? You haven't heard what "macacca" means? That it's a real word? A word commonly used as a racial slur where his mother is from? People like you show why it's so important to keep harping on this story--because so many people STILL don't know the truth. Christ, you conservatives are thick!!!

Did you sleep through history, reichboy? After the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of 1964 and 1965, there was a massive migration of white southerners from the Democratic Party to the republikan partie. This reversed the trend, true since Reconstruction, of the solid south being Democratic. Now, it's the cornerstone of crackers like Gee Dubya, Georgie Allen, and you. As far as Byrd is concerned: he quit and renounced the Klan sixty years ago, and has been voting in the Senate exactly as he would if he were a black woman. In many American communities, sad to say, membership in the Klan in the 20's and 30's was like being in the Moose Lodge or the Chamber of Commerce. All the people who still hold those reprehensible racist beliefs are now pride-bloated members of the Gee Oh Pee. Strom, Trent, Newt, Barr, Helms, et al., still fellate the renamed but not reformed White Citizens Council for votes. You, too, Nabisco?

These aren't the only allegations about Allen. There are many, many others. What about the macaca incident? What about the deer head? What about the confederate flag in his law office. His worship of the confederacy throughout his life? This isn't about Robert Byrd. I hate how you conservative always have some red herring ready to go off point with. Tell me something good about Allen? And that's fine that you are at work. So am I. You just shouldn't have accused us of ignoring something that hadn't been ignored. Even if it deserved to be ignored!

Thanks for reminding me that, as I've always said, the left is more intolerant than the worst liberal caricature of the right wing. "Cracker." Nice. Later folks.

As far as Byrd is concerned: he quit and renounced the Klan sixty years ago, and has been voting in the Senate exactly as he would if he were a black woman.

Tom Payne, you are such a liar! Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1965, including Tennessee senator Albert Gore Sr., Arkansas senator J. William Fulbright, and West Virginia senator Robert Byrd. Byrd conducted one of the longest fillibusters in Senate history in an effort to stop the bill--83 days!

That, of course, should have been the Civil Rights Act of 1964, not 1965.

I don't live in Virginia so I can't give you a recitation of his curriculum vitae, but he's been elected and re-elected to office numerous times over the last two decades, so the people of Virginia must like something about him. From my perspective, he has a 100% ACU rating, which makes him cool in my book.

back in '72, "nigger" didn't carry with it the "damned for all time" penalty. yes, it could be used in anger toward a black person, but as kids we would as often use it, and its caucasion counterpart, "honky", when we were horsing around.

fights would start, but fights started pretty much all the time. that's one of the other things kids on Long Island did.

maybe Allen is a racist. he's almost certainly an asshole. but I really, really cringe at the whole Orwellian "n-word" thing.

None of your racist blather changes the central fact of my previous post: that the sea change in 1964 and 1965 over the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, have been used, since the Tricky Dick '68 campaign, to solidify the confederacy as the key to republikan power. Without the south, you don't have shit. No, wait. You'd still be shit, but you just wouldn't have national power. Sorry, Manhattan, to underestimate a man like you; you're obviously a ritz cracker. It is not my intent to deify Robert Byrd. I'd go with Robert Kennedy or Paul Wellstone. You reichwingers have the Dick 'n Bush show, and the results are as disgusting as they are deadly. Snack time? Have a cracker.

Sorry, bub, but you obviously haven't looked at the electoral map lately. Not just the south, but the entire midsection of the country is Red, not Blue. Even in so-called "Blue States" like California you'll see that the majority of the state is red with just blobs of blue here and there.

You're lying blather and racist rants prove you to be the hater, tom payne.

And you haven't responded to the outrageous lie I caught you in with regard to Robert Byrd.n

Yes, it's mostly red because physical geography doesn't reflect populations. 1 tiny New York being blue has more people in it than half of the states between Illinois and California. The population is half/half blue/red.

So he used the N-word in college. He probably also skipped church, skipped classes, got drunk, drank while underaged, drove while drunk, threw up on the sidewalk, exceeded the speed limit on more than one occasion, had sex while unmarried, smoked pot, and goodness knows what else in college.

None of this is relevant to this ability to stand for office for the simple reason that these things occurred, if they did occur, in--to paraphrase Shakespeare-- his salad days when he was green in judgement.

What is much more relevant is that in hight school he started to chew tobacco--AND HE STILL DOES.

I recently had the displeasure of having a houseguest for several weeks who chewed tobacco. This is one of the most disgusting habits known to man, because the chewer has to sit all evening holding a bottle full of foul-smelling brown-stained sputum, which occasionally gets knocked over.

If this tobacco-chomper is elected to high office, he can only bring shame, disgrace and embarrassment to the United States. Now, if he ever gets to run for national office, lets have some Swift Boat style commercials about the Masticator-in-Chief.