Bill Clinton Defends Byrd’s Ties With The KKK (video)

From the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, Bill Clinton downplayed the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s days in the KKK, chalking it up as a misguided mistake that was not representative of him as a person.

“There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers saying, and I’ve read a bunch of them, they mention he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan and what does that mean? ” I’ll tell you what that means. That means he was a country boy from the hills and hollow of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected and maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, 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 certainly are no perfect politicians”, Clinton said to applause.

So let me get this straight; Robert Byrd joined the KKK to get elected, and he spent the rest of his life “trying to make it up?”

When Robert Byrd first joined the KKK when he was 24 years old. Democrats who are trying to rewrite his legacy act as if he was a 5- year old who made a simple mistake of stealing a bag of chips from a convenience store. Robert Byrd did not spend the rest of his life “trying to make it up.”

He became a member of the Klan in 1942 and was the leader of his chapter. In 1944 he wrote a letter to Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo saying..

It’s not a coincidence they got Bill Clinton, the biggest liar besides Obama, who got impeached for the coverup and lies he committed about Lewinsky, to go out and lie about Byrd.

It was NOT an accident Byrd joined the KKK. It was NOT simply to get elected. And if it was, doesn’t that tell you about the character of Byrd, who’d join such a group, just to get power in office?

Bill you can’t win, neither can Byrd. The whitewash isn’t white, and in any case, it’s not sticking. This is beyond what “is” is.

I have a different take. Namely, at a Byrd memorial service, it wasn’t required that anyone speak of his KKK associations. In fact, it is customary, especially among Dem, to ignore the seedier part of their dead hero’s background and focus only on what they an spin as positive. No one held a gun to Bill’s head and said, ‘You bring up the KKK connection or else.’ Clinton chose to bring that part of Byrd’s dark past out of the shadows and into the spotlight.

Personally I think he did it because (1) being an exalted Cyclops is one of the few sins that can’t be laid at Clinton’s door, and (2) as ‘the first black president’ he is proud of his race record, and wanted to burnish it by tarnishing someone else’s.

Bottom line: Bill Clinton’s eye is on HIS legacy, not Byrd’s. Spinning Byrd’s involvement in the KKK as anything but depraved is impossible, and BC knows it. It was just his way of placing a stinking pile of dog poop on Byrd’s grave, and then sitting back with the innocent, self-righteous air of one who ‘tried’ to do his best for a fellow Dem. It’s not his fault he let a lot of people in on the KKK angle who had never heard it before; he was just standing up for an old friend.

I have heard Bill Clinton in his explanation of Robert Byrd's belonging to the KKK. At work one day, the people around me were exclaiming with regard to the Lewinsky affair that everybody does it! I blew up! I stood up and said that is nonsense. I asked each and every one of them if they were doing it. They all responded No! The same thing is true here. Clinton is a clown. The majority of white people would no more join an organization that would burn a cross on a family front lawn and terrify the people and children inside or lynch somebody because of their race. Tells you a little about what is the Bill Clinton makeup that he would do this. Win an election at all costs. Not moral in my world, nor in the world of most of the people who will read this. Genuine people do not do this sort of thing! I never belonged to the KKK. I never joined into anything that indentured or controlled any race or people. To provide an explanation for that behavior is understandable in that these are political people.

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