Posted on 07/02/2010 12:51:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton says Byrd joined KKK to help him get elected By Eric Zimmermann - 07/02/10 02:58 PM ET
Former President Bill Clinton explained the late Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-W.V.) membership in the Ku Klux Klan Friday by claiming Byrd was simply trying to get elected.
Speaking at Byrd's funeral in Charleston today, Clinton seemed to criticize newspaper eulogies that dwelled on Byrd's association with the Klan.
"They mention that he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, and what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means," Clinton said. "He was a country boy from the hills and hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, 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 certainly are no perfect politicians."
Byrd joined the KKK in 1942 and was elected leader of his local chapter. Byrd later claimed to have become "disinterested" after about a year.
Byrd vigorously opposed the integration of the military, and wrote in 1946 that the KKK was "needed today as never before."
Byrd’s letters to Sen. Bilbo pretty much puts the lie to Slicks assertion. I think the KKK was one of the few sincere acts of the old fraud’s life.
Clinton used to be slicker than this - he is losing it. All Clinton had to say as a typical dem line was
“... yes, he made mistakes, but then all of us have made mistakes and fallen short of great expectations but what is most important is what a politician does for the rest of us especially for workign people etc etc “
works for me.
That's gotta be big. Really really BIG!
Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops.[10]
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He should have been locked up in a padded cell with a straight jacket...
Not elected to congress...
Kreagle ?? Who would take something that sounds so dumb, serious ???
Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do
Messin' around, every guy in town Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new
Always the same, playin' your game Drive me insane, trouble's gonna come to you
One of these days, and it won't be long You'll look for me, but, baby, I'll be gone
This is all I gotta say to ya, woman
Your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come Your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come
How much did Michael Steele pay Clinton to say that?
A simple case of politics over principle. Nothing to see here folks, move along. Everybody does it. /s
That’s like saying Hitler demonized the Jews to help him get elected.
>And Obama denied being a Muslim and a I hate whitey dude to get elected.<
But his policy and actions are speaking volumes that these were both lies.
Meanwhile, the GOP threw David Duke *OUT* before he got elected dogcatcher.
Cheers!
For some reason, the American people like for him to lecture them on “virtue”.
As Duncan Hunter so eloquently pointed out during the 2008 debates, participation in nefarious activities are considered a CAREER ENHANCEMENT in the DUmocrat party. After all, the jackass party is just being true to the nature of their founding.
Ya got that right.
Oh good! I joined the Mormon Church to quit drinking!
Same excuse many German civil servants used for joining the NAZI Party...what an amoral and idiotic statement.
And Hitler killed Jews so he could get his name in the paper. /s
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