THE DEFINITION OF 'ALL THESE PROBLEMS' IS...

We have finally discovered what Trent Lott meant when he said "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years". According to pollster Frank Luntz, what did Lott mean by "all these problems"?

You guessed it: Bill Clinton.

Chris Matthews: What do you believe [Lott] thinks those problems are that we've avoided or that we've incurred because we didn't vote racist back in '48?
Luntz: It has to do with problems that we've had over the last eight or nine years. I don't want to speak...
Matthews: He said we wouldn't have these problems if we had voted for Strom Thurmond in '48 for president, a segregationist who ran against Harry Truman. What is he talking about there?
Luntz: I think that some of the issues that he's talking about, quite frankly, and I don't know if he would agree or disagree, but I think some of it has to do with Bill Clinton and the things that happened in the 1990s, the moral decay of the country. The acceptance of certain types of behavior. If ...

Hmm, well they do say Clinton was "the first black president," so maybe Trent had a problem with that. Still, no matter how you slice Luntz's statement, it's absolutely preposterous. And Bush was getting DUI's and snorting coke long before the "moral decay" of Bill Clinton, just for the record.