Robert C Byrd "God's Gift to West Virginia" {Who is writing all his senate bills?

byrd.senate.gov ^ | as of 3/11/10 | Byrd's-Eye View

[Tigen]

This year, 2010, is the fortieth anniversary of the premier of John Denver's musical tribute to West Virginia as "almost heaven."

When I think of Denver's classic song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads",

[Tigen]

http://byrd.senate.gov/mediacenter/index.cfm?ID=24

Byrd Announces $1.9 Million For Charleston Kanawha Housing Authority - 03/09/2010

Senators Applaud Announcement of $4.4 Million For Transit Projects - 03/05/2010

Byrd Receives Animal Welfare Leadership Award From Humane Society - 03/04/2010

$14.5 Million In Stimulus Funding Heading To West Virginia University - 03/04/2010

Byrd Applauds Approval of Federal Snow Disaster Declaration for West Virginia - 03/02/2010

Senators Applaud Obama’s Nominations of U.S. Marshals for West Virginia - 02/25/2010

Senators Pursue Allegations of Currency Manipulation by China - 02/25/2010

Byrd’s-Eye View: “Pet Adoption” - 02/24/2010

Byrd Announces A New First For West Virginia’s National Guard - 02/23/2010

Byrd Announces Funding For Town of Rowlesburg - 02/19/2010

Byrd Hails Release of Funding for Dunloup Creek Residents - 02/18/2010

Byrd: $4.4 Million Initiative To House Computers At Fire and Rescue Squads Will Help Build Stronger Communities - 02/18/2010

Federal Legislators Announce Funding For North Central West Virginia Airport - 02/18/2010

Byrd, Rockefeller Announce Fire Department Grants In 5 Counties - 02/17/2010

Byrd’s-Eye View: “February is African-American History Month: Part II. West Virginian Making History” - 02/17/2010

[FlingWingFlyer]

Byrd always reminds me of that Dion Dimucci song, “Abraham, Martin and John”. Or maybe a few scenes out of “Blazing Saddles”.

[Tigen]

WHO IS VOTING FOR BYRD? BYRD WATCH?

[Da Coyote]

Only the dim-bulb-crats can get away with Byrd, the Klan-enator.

Prejudiced, stupid, and repugnant.

Heck, only dead Ted exceeded Byrd in sheer awfulness.

[alancarp]

I’m a little surprised that West Virginia hasn’t been renamed ‘Byrdland’.

[ksm1]

If anyone ever says anything positive about Robert Byrd, send them this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU

[ETL]

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

[ETL]

Thanks for that YouTube video. If only he was 1/100th as harsh in his criticism of monster Saddam Husein. The guy is clearly nuts. Here is the text from the person who posted the video:

“The training of these poor creatures...
to turn themselves into fighting machines is simply barbaric. Barbaric. Barbaric!

...Barbaric!

Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, valley to valley across this broad land!

Barbaric, barbaric.

May God help (all squinty eyed)those poor souls. Who’d be so cruel, BARBARIC!

Hear me! (shaking piece of paper uncontrollably)
Barbaric!

(shaking paper thinking here take this, no wait I need it there are words here written in huge font that I need to repeat three or four times.)”

Robert Byrd - Barbaric:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU

[mendedheart]

I think Byrdland would be a great name for WV, I lived my first twenty five years born & raised in WV. I go back East every fall & every highway,bridge,school,Byrd pie at a restaurant even a church name after that old Byrd. I have subscription to the home town paper only takes a minute to read. If its not on front page thsts it but Byrd always has an article every week. Some one is writing for him & he still staffs several offices in the state & DC.My parents knew him when he was member of KKK & burned crosses in my home town.He has been around a long time- use to play a good fiddle in past years.

[mendedheart]

I think Byrdland would be a great name for WV, I lived my first twenty five years born & raised in WV. I go back East every fall & every highway,bridge,school,Byrd pie at a restaurant even a church name after that old Byrd. I have subscription to the home town paper only takes a minute to read. If its not on front page thsts it but Byrd always has an article every week. Some one is writing for him & he still staffs several offices in the state & DC.My parents knew him when he was member of KKK & burned crosses in my home town.He has been around a long time- use to play a good fiddle in past years.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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TERM!

LIMITS!

[BigEdLB]

He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops...

[SuziQ]

I’m sure his staff is writing everything, as it probably has for years.