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Sen. Robert Byrd endorses Obama
Politico ^ | May 19 08 | Ben Smith

Posted on 05/19/2008 10:35:40 AM PDT by camerakid400

May 19, 2008 Categories: Barack Obama

Sen. Robert Byrd endorses Obama

The Charleston Gazette reports an endorsement deep with symbolism: West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd is endorsing Barack Obama.

"Barack Obama is a noble-hearted patriot and humble Christian, and he has my full faith and support," Byrd says.

He said he has "no intention of involving myself in the Democratic campaign for President in the midst of West Virginia's primary election. But the stakes this November could not be higher."

Byrd, 91, a master of Senate rules and Iraq war foe, has spent much of his political career repenting the racism of his youth. He's acknolwedged having joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1942, and campaigned against civil rights legislation in the 1960s.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amerikkka; byrd; cultureofcorruption; klansman; osama; robertbyrd
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1 posted on 05/19/2008 10:38:07 AM PDT by camerakid400
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To: camerakid400

Well now, THAT changes everything!


2 posted on 05/19/2008 10:39:14 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: camerakid400
U. S. of KKK A.

3 posted on 05/19/2008 10:40:24 AM PDT by evets (I have a crush on Hillary.)
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To: camerakid400

Is this some kind of joke?


4 posted on 05/19/2008 10:40:28 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: camerakid400

It won’t endanger his standing back home, though.........


5 posted on 05/19/2008 10:40:33 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: camerakid400

Can you imagine if a Republican senator had Klan membership and opposition to the civil rights legislation of the ‘60s in his background? Would such a senator be accorded such respect for knowledge of the Constitution, etc. that Robert Byrd is accorded?

I have to conclude that if one has a “D” next to one’s name, all faults or past problems are excused. If one has an “R” next to one’s name, then one can never ever atone for his sins of not backing civil rights.


6 posted on 05/19/2008 10:41:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well imagine that, from the Grand Kleagle himself!


7 posted on 05/19/2008 10:43:22 AM PDT by yorkie01
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To: evets

Byrd has the distinction of being the only Senator to vote against both black nominees to the Supreme Court.


8 posted on 05/19/2008 10:44:31 AM PDT by Credo
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To: evets

Who’s holding his hood for him?


9 posted on 05/19/2008 10:44:36 AM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: camerakid400

Ex-Klansman endorses Barack Hussein Obama for President of the United States. Political expediency at its finest.


10 posted on 05/19/2008 10:45:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: camerakid400

“Barack Obama is a noble-hearted patriot and humble Christian”

Senator Sheets must be off his meds again.

Obama is neither noble-hearted, nor a patriot, nor humble, and only God knows if he is really a Christian (but I have my doubts).


11 posted on 05/19/2008 10:47:29 AM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: camerakid400
Oh yea, this guy should make headway with the Black Muslins:-)

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12 posted on 05/19/2008 10:47:29 AM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: camerakid400

So only 40% of his state supports Obama but “Sheets” Byrd endorses anyway ?


13 posted on 05/19/2008 10:51:23 AM PDT by nicola_tesla ("Life is Tough... It's Worse When You're Stupid".... John Wayne)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You’ve got it!!


14 posted on 05/19/2008 10:51:23 AM PDT by WayneS (The Mask that Evil Wears May Change, but the Face of Evil Remains Constant.)
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To: camerakid400

“Huh? Barry Obama? Y’want me to endorse him? I dunno the guy but sure, whatever, let me get back to my nap. Zzzzzz”


15 posted on 05/19/2008 10:51:25 AM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama distanced himself from Farrakhan’s endorsement. Wonder if he'll do the same here. Waiting...
16 posted on 05/19/2008 10:52:45 AM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: camerakid400

There’s a certain appropriateness. Byrd was a former Grand Kleagle in the KKK, with slaveowning ancestors, and Obama’s ancestors were Muslim slave traders.


17 posted on 05/19/2008 10:52:52 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Well! That settles that!

An aged KKK Wizard endorses a socialist-communist for president!

Who would have thought it?

18 posted on 05/19/2008 10:54:01 AM PDT by ajodl (If a taxpayer is alive, he's kicking!)
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To: camerakid400; All

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[4]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0

19 posted on 05/19/2008 10:58:49 AM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: camerakid400

Barack Obama:
The Klan’s favorite balck.


20 posted on 05/19/2008 11:00:54 AM PDT by TBP
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