Posted on 07/28/2005 9:13:51 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Ku Klux Klansman-turned-Senator Robert Byrd has won passage of a bill that would fund a memorial to civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King.
Byrd, who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14-straight hours, won "a significant political victory," according to the Associated Press, by securing $10 million in funding for the King monument.
Polls show the eight-term Democrat facing a stiff re-election challenge this year if popular West Virginia Rep. Shelly Moore Capito gets into the race - with state Republicans promising to make Byrd's Klan past an issue.
Byrd "has spent years trying to rehabilitate his reputation," the AP noted - suggesting the King project was part of that effort.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, which has already raised $40 million for the memorial, would have to raise another $10 million in private funds before it could receive the Byrd grant.
The King memorial will be built on a four-acre site next to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall.
Dr. King's family has yet to comment on Byrd's attempt to use the civil rights leader's memory to repair his Klan-scarred image.
Byrd will show up in his finest whites..
> I think we're long overdue for an Abraham Lincoln tribute. He did more for Civil Rights than Martin Luther King did.
I disagree.
And his doctorate was in Theology.
Do you think that "Sheets" handlers suggested that he do something to counter his illustrious background?
Sort of like Osama Bin Laden erecting a memorial to the victims of 9/11.
Osama may have been trying to get HIS monument to 9/11 in the anti-American art exhibit at ground zero.
Byrd describing Dr King and how he must be remembered, ..."well-meaning Negro leaders who was, a coward who got other people into trouble."...
Other memorials in the pipeline:
The William Jefferson Clinton Memorial To Women Victims of Sexual Assault
The Hiliarly Rodham Clinton Memorial For F.J.B.s
The Saddam Hussein Memorial to the Memories of the Kurds
The Ayatollah Khomeini Centre for Iranian Civil Liberties
The Kim Jong Il Museum of Agricultural Innovation and Memorial to Victims of Famine
The Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Bridge, Dedicated By Senator Ted Kennedy (Fat-Scumbag-Drunken Sot-Mass)
There are my contributions!
Bring your own sheets.
Tyrd? A Racist?
Nah, couldn't be. (Dripping sarcasm)
he also sponsored james earl ray likes to hedge his bets
There are innumerable memorials to MLK. Why spend $10M on another one? Oh, that's right. . .so Byrd can do something superficial to help his image.
I hear OJ Simpson is lobbying for a monument to women's rights.
"Sheets" Byrd was up all night burning the midnight crosses to come up with this idea.
Byrd is a disgusting man, and has taught all of the other dem senators the art of pandering...
I even heard he is getting Osama Obama down to W. Virginia to campaign for him...
I am sure, if you got Obama away from ANY political influence and promised never to say anything, HE would also agree that Byrd is a despicable human being, but, for the votes he will go along to get along...
Roger Hedgecock (substitute host for Rush) made a good point about this yesterday: since MLK's activism was done while he was a minister, and we are erecting a monument to commemorate his activism, how can we justify putting this on public land? This violates the liberal idea of seperation of church and state. Where's the ACLU? Shouldn't they be filing a lawsuit to block this?
It has been so long since Teddy Kennedy took a woman's life that he has forgotten her name.
Bobby Byrd cannot remember the last time he burned a cross.
Byrd doing what he does best...spending OUR hard earned tax dollars!
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