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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re not talking about him smoking a joint 30 years ago Or some other such youthful indiscretion.[b]I am his age and it would have been inconceivable to me to put on blackface for any occasion. And I don’t know anyone else who would’ve thought that acceptable in 1984.[/b] We’re not talking about the 1960s.

I was watching his press conference live and he said two things that I can’t get past. 1) he claimed it wasn’t him in the photo after saying just yesterday that it WAS him in the photo.  Which is it?   On this point alone I find him untruthfull. 2) In an obvious ploy to get ahead of future criticism, he did admit during his press conference to having dressed up like Michael Jackson for a dance competition, including putting on black face. Ummmm....How is that more acceptable than the thing you were accused of?

He’s got to go. He’s a relic of the old Virginia and we (I live in VA) need to move forward into the future.[/quote]

[b]All of this. It says something about him as a person, not a youthful indiscretion. He needs to go.[/quote][/b]

Even if he was a racist 35 years, there is nothing from his political record to indicate that he hold the same views.   Are people not allowed to evolve and move on?  One mistake and that's it, even decades later?  [/quote]

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