Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praised Former KKK Member Sen. Robert Byrd [VIDEO]

dailycaller.com ^ | 2/29/16 | Steve Guest

[cotton1706]

Despite mounting criticism for Donald Trump’s failure to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s support, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton once heaped praise for late Klan leader Sen. Robert Byrd.

In a video uploaded to the State Department’s official YouTube page on June 28, 2010, Clinton commemorated late Sen. Byrd by saying, “Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.”

When Byrd was 24-years-old, he joined the Klan because he was worried that during World War II, he might have to fight alongside “race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” Bryd wrote those words in 1944 to Sen. Theodore Bilbo, a staunch segregationist

[euram]

The dems welcome radical extremists from just about anywhere. They have run Black Panthers for office, SDS, Weather Underground, Communists, Socialists, Nation of Islam, Black Lies Matter, you name it, the dems welcome them all. They never denounce their radicals, it is only republicans who are forced to account for every single person who endorses or even says anything positive about them. Unfortunately, every republican I’ve seen cringes, grovels, and licks the boots of the media.

Trump should have said, “Duke is a private citizen, who doesn’t even live in the US and hasn’t for years. He can say what he wants, I’m not responsible for what he says.”

[GOPJ]

LOL - A splash of cold reality for nose in the air elite hypocrites.

[lee martell]

Rub her wrinkled nose into that mess!

[EnglishOnly]

Hillary : “ I took his advice..

He was the Heart and Soul of the Senate.....

He left a legacy........”

Yeah, Sounds like the two of them really hit it off!!

[ETL]

The Democrats made him leader of the Senate!
They called him the 'conscience of the Senate'

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.[8]

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 [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. 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
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "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.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
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"They [his fellow democrats] refer to the Senate's senior Democrat [Robert Byrd] as the 'conscience of the Senate.' ..."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp

[Cyclone59]

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[lee martell]

Hill and the Byrd were so sympatico, makes you wonder if maybe there’s ‘pictures’ of the two together.
Okay....Where’s the Mind Bleach?

[doug from upland]

[GOPJ]

Will Hillary totally disavow ANY group connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaeda or ISIS?

[GOPJ]

Will Hillary totally disavow ANY group connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaeda or ISIS?

[AlaskaErik]

And let's not forget that Obama made time to go to his funeral.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Clinton commemorated late Sen. Byrd by saying, “Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.”...and yet Trent Lott was virtually driven from office for daring to suggest at Jesse Helms' birthday party that the country would have been better off had Helms been elected president - it goes on and on.....

[clearcarbon]

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[MarvinStinson]

Yes, the Democrats warmly embraced a Klansman in their midst for years

[Fedora]

BTT

[Fedora]

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