Well now, THAT changes everything!
Is this some kind of joke?
It won’t endanger his standing back home, though.........
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.
Ex-Klansman endorses Barack Hussein Obama for President of the United States. Political expediency at its finest.
“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).
So only 40% of his state supports Obama but “Sheets” Byrd endorses anyway ?
“Huh? Barry Obama? Y’want me to endorse him? I dunno the guy but sure, whatever, let me get back to my nap. Zzzzzz”
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.
An aged KKK Wizard endorses a socialist-communist for president!
Who would have thought it?
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
Barack Obama:
The Klan’s favorite balck.
However, you can't fool St. Peter, Senator. Lying and hypocracy will be higher on your heavenly rap sheet than being a Kleagle.
Pack your asbestos suit for your inevitable trip down to the liberals' Club Red Resort.....and keep a seat warm for the Massachusetts swimmer when you get there.
Leni
If so, then Obama has just been officially endorsed by the Klan.
How is the Onion going to top this?
He would look the racist if he didn’t.