Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV, Dead at 92

Yeah the dems and the KKK will be mourning him. Guess which one webway, bravo, and southernman fall under.

Or maybe u mad cuz he's a traitor to the KKK?
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Let's all give a BIG round of applause for another shining display of Rightie civility and decorum!!

The body's not even cold yet, and already the vicious little barbs are flying...CONGRATS you guys...you do the country proud!
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They all got their marching orders from the likes of Breitbart.

"West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd wasn't even gone yet when posters on right-wing websites were dancing on his grave. At Andrew Breitbart's site, the nastiness was sickening. Among them (reprinted verbatim):

* Hasta la vista KKK Birdman.
* Funny how old D-rats are falling like flies this year. (Yes that WAS an insensitive statement. Deal with it!)
* oh ya let me say something *nice* about the Kleagle: . ooops - "Grand Kleagel" sorry
* will the kkk march in his funeral procession? and will they be before or after the naacp representatives? and will his headstone monument be smaller, or bigger than roland burris' here in illinois. and will they keep naming things after byrd once, or if he passes on? not that i don't wish him all the best, but he has looked and acted like the living dead for the last few years (yes, this is also a insensitive comment, bite me!)

And those are the ones that weren't "deleted by the administrator." At Michelle Malkin's site, while there were well-wishes for Dick Cheney and pleas to take down nasty posts about him at The Huffington Post, the Byrd-bashing was unabated.

* Everyone light a candle cross.
* This past week, my daughter and granddaughter moved back to the mainland. My truck had to be towed. My wife's car has a blown head gasket. My dog has pinkeye.This is the first good news I've had in a while.

Yes, it's true that Robert C. Byrd was a Klan member who said derogatory things about blacks. He was, like Strom Thurmond, a Southern Democrat, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1985.

I had the honor of interviewing Sen. Byrd in March 2005, when I asked him about his past with the Klan and his reaction to it being continually raised. He said it was in the past. "I have apologized for it. And that's all I can do. ... I was wrong, as many young men are wrong today, even when they join groups." And I asked what enabled him to change.

COLMES: What changed you? What enabled your thinking to progress? What changed you as a man?
BYRD: Time, reflection and the teachings of the Bible, the sermon on the mount. My wife and I, we're born- again Christians. That's term you hear a lot about. Well, we are indeed born-again Christians. We were baptized in the Old Church Yard at a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Baptist Church in 1946. That's 59 years ago. That changed my thinking in many ways. And as time goes on, as experience has its impact, as the years come and go, we all ripen and change, I hope for the better, and I think I have.

Byrd, unlike Thurmond, who is revered by the likes of those who wrote the posts above, changed his views over time. By the late 1970s Byrd was speaking in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. Eventually, he regarded his vote in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that led to the Vietnam War a sin. In fact, Byrd became a liberal lion who stood up to the Bush administration, invoking the rules of the Senate he knew like no one else to point out that it is illegal to fight without a declaration of war.

Robert Byrd evolved as a man. Isn't that something we all wish for ourselves? And isn't that the truly Christian way?

Those who have used his illness and now his death to renounce him for a long-ago past that he himself has renounced might pause to remember that. They might also reflect that one of the other great Christian teachings is forgiveness.

Oh, and at the end of his life, Robert Byrd, one-time Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, a man who once said he wouldn't serve in the military alongside "race mongrels," helped elect a black man president of the United States."

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/arti...d-evolved-unlike-many-of-his-critics/19534279
 
I waited a solid week before I dumped on Kennedy. It just didn't feel right right to crack jokes about him at first. It actually took a leftist friend of mine making a drunk-driving joke about the man to break the ice for me.

But Byrd is free range, as far as I'm concerned. I pittied Teddy, but I don't pity Byrdbrains...
 
Caboose said:
Let's see.... A job where I can make shit loads of money and not even show up or deliver any results what so ever? And each year my chance of losing said job diminishes exponentially? And I would want to resign, why?
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because you've already salted away more money than a thousand average people and you want to spend it in Florida before you die?.....
 
Threedee said:
I waited a solid week before I dumped on Kennedy. It just didn't feel right right to crack jokes about him at first. It actually took a leftist friend of mine making a drunk-driving joke about the man to break the ice for me.

But Byrd is free range, as far as I'm concerned. I pittied Teddy, but I don't pity Byrdbrains...
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As soon as I heard about Kennedy I pulled my car over to the side of the road and sent a text to my sister: "Ted is dead."
 
I actually think for all his imperfections that the guy had some solid over all principles and was not a total sellout.

He also helped establish Constitution Day as a national holiday to be recognized in public schools, which is a great piece of legislation.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
I actually think for all his imperfections that the guy had some solid over all principles and was not a total sellout.

He also helped establish Constitution Day as a national holiday to be recognized in public schools, which is a great piece of legislation.
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I think he was nothing more than a racist.

Just my opinion.
 
christiefan915 said:
They all got their marching orders from the likes of Breitbart.


Yes, it's true that Robert C. Byrd was a Klan member who said derogatory things about blacks. He was, like Strom Thurmond, a Southern Democrat, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Strom Thurmond, a Southern Democrat, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1985..

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/arti...d-evolved-unlike-many-of-his-critics/19534279
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Yeah...Thrumond voted WITH HIS PARTY AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS when he was a Democrat....then his changed his party...

Whats the Civil Rights Act of 1985 ??? Never heard of it...
 
Senator Byrd's ambition was legendary.

He twice read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover, from A to Z.

He was the only American to earn his law degree while serving as a member of Congress.

He could drive from Washington to West Virginia and back again, reciting classic poetry the entire time, and not repeat the same poem twice.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Let's all give a BIG round of applause for another shining display of Rightie civility and decorum!!

The body's not even cold yet, and already the vicious little barbs are flying...CONGRATS you guys...you do the country proud!
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Actually Byrd did belong to the KKK for a year and he did oppose the Civil Rights Act and the Voters Rights act and he deserves to be excoriated for that. You can also say the same thing about Strom Thurmond. Both southern men, however, embraced civil rights, integration and equality for their African American constituents after these acts became the law of the land and then both men worked hard to serve their African American constituents and both men deserve credit for that.

What's hypocritical of the wingnuts though is that they also fail to mention that their Messiah Reagan also opposed the Civil Rights Act, The Voters Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. Nor do they bring up the fact that they supported an active KKK Grand Dragon in Congress in the person of David Dukes.

Personally I think that people like Byrd and Thurmond who can admit they were wrong and embrace change deserve a certain amount of credit for that.
 
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Threedee said:
I waited a solid week before I dumped on Kennedy. It just didn't feel right right to crack jokes about him at first. It actually took a leftist friend of mine making a drunk-driving joke about the man to break the ice for me.

But Byrd is free range, as far as I'm concerned. I pittied Teddy, but I don't pity Byrdbrains...
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It's ok 3D, Have at it. He's beyond caring anyways.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Why? You moving to West "By God" Virginia and taking his place?
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That would be kind of sweet. If they're dumb enough to vote for Byrd, they're definitely dumb enough to vote for me!!

The fact is, I can accept reformed alcoholics (quitters!), addicts, criminals, misogynists, and whatnot, but not reformed politicians. If you fuck up in politics, you should be turned out and not voted back in, at least not at the same level of power. There are always plenty of people out there to replace the likes of Byrd and Thurmond. Unless there was serious risk of electing someone worse, I really can't see why they went to such lengths to keep getting re-elected...

But it will be nice to see people who condemned Trent Lott start praising the great, late Byrd for being such a great public servant...
 
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