Posted on 11/20/2004 10:25:17 AM PST by mountaineer
In his own humble words (which, curiously, omit the KKK sojourn):
Born: November 20, 1917, in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina ...
Robert C. Byrd's story is a classic American saga of hard work, success, and achievement...
At war's end, [No mention of why he didn't serve in the military in WWII, by the way] he returned to West Virginia with a new vision of what his home state and his country could be. In 1946, he made his first run for political office, and was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates.
After two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates, Byrd was elected to the West Virginia Senate; then to the United States House of Representatives for three terms; and finally, in 1958, to the United States Senate, where he has represented West Virginia continuously since, winning re-election again and again by record margins in statewide elections. He has served longer in the United States Senate than has anyone else in West Virginia's history, an indication of the confidence, faith, and trust that the people of his home state have regarding him. In fact, in the history of the Republic, only two other Members of Congress have had a longer tenure than Senator Byrd's Congressional career of more than 50 years. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at byrd.senate.gov ...
One year closer to the grave.
Celebrate!
Never laugh when you see a hearse go by, etc etc....
Wrong!
Happy Birthday you old KKKoot.
Best wishes on your birthday,Robert.
87? That is alot of crosses to blow out.
Be it the KKK or Jihadist... you got to watch our for guy's that wear sheets on there heads
Damn that was funny!
Beware the Sheetheads
LMAO!
Daughter Mona and son-in-law Mohammed Fatema... ouch! As a former KKK perhaps his sympathies have changed!
The problem is that Sheets could win reelection from the grave, and probably will.
That's our seat when he vacates.
Did Sly Sylvester make it to the birthday party?
He ought to vacate in 2006. The man will be 89 y/o.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech." So charged Robert C. Byrd, the so-called "Dean of the Congress," referring to President George W. Bush's historic visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1 as it was making its way home after 10 months at sea.
Byrd, who in his salad days spent more time in white sheets than in camouflage uniforms, just doesn't get it. He doesn't understand that the respect and admiration America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have for this president is deep. He's grown too cold and cynical after 50 years in Washington to realize that the affection this commander in chief has for his troops is genuine. It's a welcome change from a previous occupant of the Oval Office, who "loathed" the dedicated young men and women of the armed forces. ...
And yet Robert Byrd has the nerve to dismiss the president's tribute to the troops as that of "a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech."
What Byrd derides as "flamboyant showmanship" was the kind of leadership the people of West Virginia -- the state with the highest per capita service in the armed forces -- appreciate. Actions speak louder than words, and the president's "self-congratulatory gestures" are exactly the kinds of actions which endear this president to the troops he commands.
Truth be told, "flamboyant showmanship" far better describes Byrd's half-century career. For all his oratorical pretensions to Roman senatorial dignity, in actuality Byrd is the Don King of the Senate. With a safe seat in West Virginia and a singular mission to direct federal largesse back to the Mountain State, Byrd has used taxpayer's money to put his name on more buildings than Ronald McDonald. ... Link to full article
Kerry was in Vietnam, but Sheets was a Gettysburg.
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