Posted on 08/11/2008 5:42:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The nation's longest-serving U.S. senator tells candidates John McCain and Barack Obama that to be the great president America needs they need to be what George W. Bush was not.
Be humble, honest and contemplative, Sen. Robert C. Byrd writes in his latest book, "Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader."
Seek dissenting opinions. Reject the politics of fear. Admit and learn from your mistakes, the 90-year-old West Virginia Democrat advises.
Byrd has long been a critic of the president, and his latest book offers a scathing assessment of Bush: a "son of privilege and dynasty who had defined himself as the president of only that fraction of the country which shared his world view."
But with Bush's departure comes opportunity, says the senator who has served under 11 presidents, including his favorite, Harry Truman. The book, released June 28 with little fanfare, is intended to be read by Bush's successor on inauguration day, Jan. 20.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
ah..go change you Depends old man.
I woulda thought he would have said Lincoln with the freeing of the slaves and all. I heard he tried to filibuster that one.
It takes one to know one.
Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)
Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.
The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.
The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[4]
Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:
"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"
He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
I don’t wish ill will on anyone... actually that’s a load of crap, but some people really just need to go ahead and die.
Did it ever occur to Robert Byrd that only a fraction share his worldview too?
The KLAN Speaketh.
LOL, that about covers it.
“go change you Depends old man”
LOL LOL
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Bush not the worst president ever; Franklin Pierce was...followed in order closely by James Buchanan, Millard Filmore, Warren G. Harding, Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, U.S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, LBJ AND THEN George W. Bush. But, then again, Byrd would have probably have put Jefferson Davis somewhere in the top for best honors and certainly backed David Duke if he ever wanted to run for the office.
Best Recruiter - 1942
R.K.K.K. Byrd was an idiot even before dementia set in.
Robert Byrd: WORST BIGOT AND RACIST EVER
...so the guy who led us through 9-11 and seen to it that we haven’t been attacked since, despite our enemies promising otherwise sucks eh?
History has proven accurate that early superlative for the man who admitted to lust in his heart.
History will prove that President Bush was one of the top presidents in terms of defending his nation. His approach to the WOT will be lauded by future generations, especially as Europe falls into Islamofascism.
On the domestic front, he was less successful, but has a few feathers in his cap (USSC appointments principally).
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What in *God's* name is a "white nigger"?
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