Reply #117: Yes, it is.

[Alexander]

"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed with a majority Dem congress and a democrat in the White House - but it passed with considerably wider margins by Republicans than Democrats in both the House and the Senate."

Guess what happened to Democrats who were against this? They fled the party and became Republicans. :eyes:

"And it was Robert F Kennedy, as attorney general, who directed the FBI to track MLK, Jr., and the wiretapping of him went on with JFK's knowledge and approval."

And it was JFK who bailed Dr. King out of jail in October 1960, and King who declared he was changing his vote from Nixon to Kennedy.

"So you need to adjust that 60 year estimate down a bit, and we'll just disregard the erroneous statement that it covers the time she's been alive."

No I don't. You need a history lesson.

Hubert Humphrey's speech endorsing a civil rights plank was in 1948. When did the Democratic Party first adopt a platform of civil rights? 1948.

2007 - 1948 = 59 years.

Cindy Sheehan is 50.

You are wrong.