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Clinton Defends Byrd's KKK Ties: "He Was Trying To Get Elected"
RealClearPolitics ^ | July 2, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 07/02/2010 10:49:09 AM PDT by i88schwartz

He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.

"And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians," he added.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; kkk; kleaglebyrd; liberalracism; robertbyrd; robertsheetsbyrd
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1 posted on 07/02/2010 10:49:12 AM PDT by i88schwartz
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Fleeting?

Hardly. Full-blown membership with a history of quotes that shows he truly never left the Klan.

2 posted on 07/02/2010 10:50:43 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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“He was trying to get elected,” former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.”

Slick learned at the knee of the best on how to get elected...


3 posted on 07/02/2010 10:51:08 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: i88schwartz

Yes Clinton understands being a political whore.

We have turned off the red light Bubba. No PWs need pply.


4 posted on 07/02/2010 10:51:15 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: i88schwartz

And yet Trent Lott gets run out of town just for praising Strom Thurmond on his birthday.


5 posted on 07/02/2010 10:51:51 AM PDT by FReepaholic (The problem is they do not fear us.)
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To: i88schwartz

I understand that nobody’s perfect, but Klan membership is unforgivable.


6 posted on 07/02/2010 10:52:54 AM PDT by richmwill
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To: i88schwartz

Klueless Klinton said “Klu” Klux Klan.


7 posted on 07/02/2010 10:53:04 AM PDT by rfp1234
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Typical Democrat praising a typical Democrat.


8 posted on 07/02/2010 10:53:34 AM PDT by dr_who
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Not helping Bill, not helping.


9 posted on 07/02/2010 10:53:55 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Hey, only the nation’s first black president could make such an assertion about Senator Byrd.

Nice goin’, Bubba.

Putz.


10 posted on 07/02/2010 10:54:38 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Duty is ours; consequences are God's." Thomas "Stonewall" jackson)
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To: IYAS9YAS
ummm... Byrd was a Grand Wizard --> leadership position ... decision maker

hardly a passing interest in doing damage to others...

Clinton's health problems have obviously affected his brain ... addled old man

11 posted on 07/02/2010 10:54:57 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: i88schwartz

Clinton can identify with Byrd’s racism. It was just politics. Funny how millions of southern, white boys have managed to be successful in their lives and careers without resorting to organized racism. Maybe Clinton is just thinking about his own racist tendencies.


14 posted on 07/02/2010 10:56:01 AM PDT by pallis
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Really? He worked as a recruiter for the Klan and it was just to secure votes?

How many white supremacists did he recruit who went on to terrorize and discriminate against minorities and Catholics?


15 posted on 07/02/2010 10:56:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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Giving the record of Clintoons mentor, you would expect him to say that. Sort of like the lie he told about never using the N word and never telling a racists joke. And all of those church burning in Arkansas. Old Lewinsky chaser is so yesterday!
16 posted on 07/02/2010 10:56:57 AM PDT by org.whodat
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The Byrd has flown, so, ignore the white sheets and the burning crosses because he was just trying to get elected. You can also ignore what Bill was doing because he was just trying to get screwed. Democrats, they just can’t help themselves. Put them out of their misery in Nov.


17 posted on 07/02/2010 10:57:06 AM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, or is it Mr. Stone or Mr. Woody? Whatever, you're under arrest.)
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Wipe the smirk off your face Wallace! He did not have sex with those Klansmen!


18 posted on 07/02/2010 10:57:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: richmwill

It’s unforgiveable if forgiveness wasn’t asked for. Apparently Byrd apologized on more than one occasion, but he didn’t truly repent. Staying in the Democrats’ Party and trying to turn us into a socialist nation/country-sized plantation was not the way to show true remorse.


19 posted on 07/02/2010 10:57:51 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Clinton Defends Byrd's KKK Ties: "He Was Trying To Get Elected"

And, of course, one must do WHATEVER it takes, no matter how vile or obscene it may be, to get elected...

20 posted on 07/02/2010 10:58:15 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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