Just for Fun

[petermarcus]

Just for fun, let's start a pool. What is the date and time that Senator Trent Lott will resign the Senate majority leadership?

No prizes, but the closest will be admired for political astuteness.

(put your guesses in the comments)

Comments

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Thursday, December 19th, 4:30pm (EST)

[canuckgirl.livejournal.com]

Friday, December 20th, at 1pm (EST).

[espositarita.livejournal.com]

Dang girl, looks like you were only off by a few hours!

[macaholic.livejournal.com]

12/16/02 5 pm

[circlek.livejournal.com]

What exactly happened with this? I have been out of the loop. What did he say?

[canuckgirl.livejournal.com]

Excerpted from here.

The comment in question was delivered last week ago during a 100th birthday party for the retiring Thurmond -- a party that often resembled a roast of the South Carolina Republican, who later in his career rejected segregation and supported civil rights.

Lott noted that in Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, whose centerpiece was opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four states Thurmond carried.

"We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said.

That line initially drew little fire, but the criticism grew this week and intensified with a report of a similar comment he made at a 1980 campaign rally for Ronald Reagan in Mississippi. His comments followed a speech by Thurmond, who praised the platform that would soon put Reagan in the White House.

"You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today," Lott was quoted as saying of Thurmond in a November 3, 1980, article in The Clarion-Ledger, a Jackson newspaper.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, Friday called the Lott comments "a salute to bigotry."

Re:

[circlek.livejournal.com]

thanks

[dotmeister.livejournal.com]

12/27/02 Noon

Take Out the Trash...

[espositarita.livejournal.com]

December 27th, 3:30ish (EST)

What better time to announce a resignation (other than election night, thank you Harvey Pitt) than on the Friday immediately following Christmas, and before New Year's, when just about no one in the US is watching TV?

[nbbmom.livejournal.com]

This Wednesday (12/18/02). It will be announced around 3:30p.m. in a press conference not attended by Trent. What a dumbass.

[blacknihil.livejournal.com]

December 26, 2002. This kind of thing always gets pulled when nobody's looking.

[indighost.livejournal.com]

i'm going to go out on a limb and predict he will keep his office until reelection time...

[interimlover.livejournal.com]

please join us:

genepool

[wbahner.livejournal.com]

Thursday, December 19, 5:30 pm Eastern time.