Dan Rather unloads on racist trump : "this is the president"?

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9. Lee Atwater supposedly saw the light just before his went out

He died young, and this is probably his most famous deathbed quote:

"My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul....I was wrong to follow the meanness of Conservatism. I should have been trying to help people instead of taking advantage of them. I don't hate anyone anymore. For the first time in my life I don't hate somebody..."

The rest was religious malarkey about having found Jesus, etc., but he finally came clean about realizing what he had been doing all this time. Ironically, this was probably the only time the Republicans thought he had lost his mind, instead of being the only time he found it.