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In reply to the discussion: What did Hillary think after Senator Byrd gave this speech? [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)73. Byrd? BYRD? Are you kidding? I see you a Byrd and raise you a KKK recruiter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics
If you can forgive Byrd for having been a KKK member and organizer then I can forgive Clinton for Iraq vote.
I have to assume that this thread was meant to be satirical. As far as I know, Byrd is the ONLY ex-KKKer to vote against the war resolution.
If you can forgive Byrd for having been a KKK member and organizer then I can forgive Clinton for Iraq vote.
West Virginia's Democratic United States Senator Robert C. Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[9]
Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake." The NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues during the 108th Congress.[10] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase "white niggers" on a national television broadcast.[1
I have to assume that this thread was meant to be satirical. As far as I know, Byrd is the ONLY ex-KKKer to vote against the war resolution.
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From day 2 after my shock wore off and I learned my family members were safe, I knew..
AuntPatsy
May 2015
#4
I think they all knew, which is horrible, but if they didn't, they still get no slack from me.
winter is coming
May 2015
#81
Half the New York Congressional delegation voted against the infernal thing
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#27
You can find many articles quoting Hillary and Obama on this topic. Were you asleep 2007-08?
merrily
May 2015
#88
Your claim is false. Give it a rest already. Some of us actually remember the 2008 primary.
merrily
May 2015
#99
The most charitable thing one can say about Hillary is that she is the biggest chump in
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#112
Trying to conflate 9/11 with the Iraq war is the domain of lying and/or stupid Republicans.
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2015
#119
Really? You don't think the speech is by definition intended to encourage people to vote with her?
Bonobo
May 2015
#90
I already responded to your "point." See Reply 56. Rephrasing it doesn't help you.
merrily
May 2015
#64
Yawn. Pardon me. Make that alert if you think a well documented post violates ANY board rule.
merrily
May 2015
#76
Byrd? BYRD? Are you kidding? I see you a Byrd and raise you a KKK recruiter...
McCamy Taylor
May 2015
#73
Who am I to "forgive" a war vote? Is Byrd even running for President this season?
merrily
May 2015
#83
You are using one politician with a sketchy past to attack another's past record
BainsBane
May 2015
#113
Byrd's past has nothing at all to do with Hillary Clinton and she is the subject of this criticism
Bonobo
May 2015
#114
Yeah Byrd, who Clinton called “friend and mentor”+“a man of unsurpassing eloquence and nobility.”
PoliticAverse
May 2015
#118