Posted on 06/25/2005 9:02:08 PM PDT by incredulous joe
By the way, there's a great cartoon that ran along with this in the WashTimes, if any of the more "techno-saavvy" would like to post it in the thread it may be found here:
http://www.gorrellart.com/index.asp?link=archive&id=350
I don't know a lot about the Scripps-Howard news service, although I will say if they are trying to become the Fox News of print, my hat's off to them
And, if that is the case, they will do well ...
I agree, good post! No such thing as a "mistaken" Klan membership, IMO.
Doesn't sound that "white" for that era.
This is an interesting sentence. Why didn't he write the complete story leaving out nothing?
If Byrd in his autobiography had just let it all hang out, it would have been so much better for him. Americans love candor in general, and the honestly candid sincere penitent sinner in particular. For some reason, politicians as a generality tend to be constricted in their moral imagination. That lack of imagination sometimes bites them in the ass. I wish that happened more often.
Robert Byrd could probably write a 700 page tome a month, the old blow hard.
Doesn't sound that "white" for that era.
Does anyone know why he changed his name? There could be an interesting story there.
I'll tell you one thing.
If I wasn't a Freeper, I wouldn't know a thing about Byrd's past.
It is not in the public conscience.
His father died, he was farmed out to relatives, and adopted the name of his caretakers. Something like that.
Thanks, I was hoping it was something a little more "juicy" than that.
Byrd is a dirt bag. I remember driving through oregon on a rainy
dark night and listening to Byrd on the radio pontificate on how the Senator
from oregon had dishonored the senate by his past conduct and how
he had to resign from the senate to preserve the honor of that
august chamber. I kept thinking to myself......you dirt bag....
you were a leader of the KKK....how could you even talk about
another senator stepping down to preserve the honor of the senate!!!!
Like Willisam Jefferson Clinton, Byrd can't hide the cynicism behind his politics. Had things been different, Byrd would have joined the Communist Party USA if it brought him closer to those "leading persons" belonged. Everything for Byrd and Clinton was about maintaining political "viability".
Bob Packwood....that was his name. Byrd lectured the nation on the
floor of the senate for an hour at least on how his past conduct
was a "stain" on the reputation of the senate....how Packwood had
to resign to save the reputation of the senate!!!! The Democrats
call him the "conscience of the senate" and he is a former leader
in the Klan......unbelievable.....and the media grovel at his feet
for decades!
Agreed and disagree,...
Yeah, Byrd should have let it hang out. He should have "mea culpa'd" and been done with it forever.
I remember hearing some of George Wallace's quotes, upon his death a few years ago regarding his mistakes. His sense of repentence was very sincere,...really it was very moving. In his quotes later in his life he was basically asking for forgiveness.
As stark as this image is - and you're right, I believe Americans are very forgiving - I don't believe this is the image that the liberal media is going allow to be burned on our nation's collective cortex.
"If I wasn't a Freeper, I wouldn't know a thing about Byrd's past."
You'd have heard it from Rush Limbaugh. He refers to Byrd as "Sheets" Byrd and talks about his KKK background occasionally.
And I believe the only thing the former Oregon senator was guilty of was the "old Packwood clutch and thrust". Minor leaugue stuff compared to the Perjurer-in-Chief.
Byrd's still alive. Why the hell aren't the same MSM going after him? Because he's a democrat. That's why.
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