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."
OH Geeez, Clinton says??? ...... Consider the source. What is Clinton best known for? Rhet.
This is the same game the democratic party and liberal media plays all the time. If a republican had been a memnber of the KKK and apologized for it the media would never let that repuiblican live it down (i.e., Jerry Falwell’s 9/11 comments that he apologized for but the liberals would let let it go). However, if a democrat has a racist past they always excuse that. They’ll say he had political pressure (i.e., Al Gore dad who vote against cilil rights act). As long as that person bows at the alter of liberalism and repents of not being a liberal and becomes a liberal then all will be forgiven. It’s important to remember that it is foolish to the core to desire or seek their approval.
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