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  • Caption Obama, Biden & Clinton at Byrds Memorial Service

    07/02/2010 11:18:17 AM PDT · by Lucky9teen · 61 replies
    U.S. President Barack Obama attends the memorial service for U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd on the steps of the state capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, July 2, 2010. From L-R are: West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, Obama, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton
  • Clinton Defends Byrd's KKK Ties: "He Was Trying To Get Elected"

    07/02/2010 10:49:09 AM PDT · by i88schwartz · 74 replies · 1+ views
    RealClearPolitics ^ | July 2, 2010 | RealClearPolitics
    He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians," he added.
  • Byrd Brain: The Democrats’ Own Klansman

    05/23/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT · by Nasty McPhilthy · 12 replies · 1,925+ views
    MND ^ | May 23, 2005 | by Bob Newman
    Note that a murderer or rapist is never called a former murderer or former rapist. That’s because once you have committed such a heinous crime, you are properly branded for life with the moniker. Some odors, once attached to one’s epidermis, just can’t be lost. Such is the case with the Democrats’ own Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd. Once a Klansman, always a Klansman. Byrd’s own words should have seen to his political demise decades ago, but because he is a Democrat rather than a Republican, liberals look the other way and give this card-carrying racist a pass regardless...