Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd

[joeydb]

Interesting that our first half-Kenyan president did such a moving tribute for the KKK member in the Senate, who actually tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Will the hypocrisy never cease...?

[dellinger63]

It's all in the Hope and Change

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Interesting that our first half-Kenyan president did such a moving tribute for the KKK member in the Senate, who actually tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Will the hypocrisy never cease...?

You mean like the hypocrisy of calling the President half-Kenyan for the sole purpose of trying to degrade the man, then in the same sentence dissing another regarding civil rights?

Byrd disavowed his KKK past a long time ago, and has spent the subsequent years doing a great deal of good for society through his position as a way of atonement.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

You mean like the hypocrisy of calling the President half-Kenyan for the sole purpose of trying to degrade the man, then in the same sentence dissing another regarding civil rights?

Byrd disavowed his KKK past a long time ago, and has spent the subsequent years doing a great deal of good for society through his position as a way of atonement.

Like an atoned pedophilic, homosexual priest?

[Danzig]

he did filibuster, and vote against the civil rights act. he also voted against both thurgood marshall and clarence thomas when they were nominated to the supreme court...and he may have said the kkk was a wrong, but it wasn't long ago that he was trying to atone for using the 'n' word...i read some of his bio today. i found it...

well, they say don't speak ill of the dead, so i'll just say my condolences to his family.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

well, they say don't speak ill of the dead, so i'll just say my condolences to his family.

Joey says you can't do that. Hypocrisy.

Some others call it manners, though

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Riot

Joey says you can't do that. Hypocrisy.

Some others call it manners, though

It is hypocrisy to extoll the virtues of someone who is now dead, when they were the opposite of everything you supposedly believe when they were alive.

If a Republican had either been a member of the KKK OR voted against the Civil Rights Act, we'd never hear the end of it. But Byrd does both, and pretty much embarassed himself on every occasion where he was near a microphone, and somehow he's another "Lion of the Senate"? Yeah, OK.

Look at what the press did to Senator Trent Lott when he said some very broad and sweeping flattery for 100 year old Senator Strom Thurmond. Lott never said he supported the Dixiecrat agenda, but he said of the former presidential candidate Thurmond something along the lines of "Maybe things would have been better had Thurmond won." That wasn't a racial statement, but don't try to tell the Left that one. Everything is racial when it suits them. But when Byrd, one of their own legislators, has speeches about "white n-words", and writings I won't repeat mentioned here (fourth paragraph, inset):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicalju...lf?ft=1&f=1014

everythings just great. That is the definition of hypocrisy, his death notwithstanding.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Like an atoned pedophilic, homosexual priest?

there you go again.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Interesting that our first half-Kenyan president did such a moving tribute for the KKK member in the Senate, who actually tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Why should Obama care about what Byrd was up to in '64?


All successful politicians pander to their peeps. I've been to West Virginia and I can only imagine what it must have been like almost 40 years ago.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Why should Obama care about what Byrd was up to in '64?


All successful politicians pander to their peeps. I've been to West Virginia and I can only imagine what it must have been like almost 40 years ago.

you mean back before everyone edifice had the name 'byrd' on the front, in some form or fashion? surprised they didn't just rename the whole state.
west byrdginia

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Politics - like it or not - is about steering resources to your peeps. These old fogies are like experts at it.

What he did was no different than what Cheney did as President of the US when Bush was serving under him ... he basically directed boatloads of resources to his peeps.

[dellinger63]

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