[Sub-Driver]

Now I've heard everything........

[AuH2ORepublican]

I think Clinton confused Robert Byrd with Justice Hugo Black, who joined the Klan in 1920s Alabama in an (ultimately successful) attempt to get elected to the U.S. Senate (but resigned from the Klan soon afterwards). Byrd was not from a time or place in which joining the Klan was helpful, much less a prerequisite, for a political career. And Byrd was a Klan leader for years, being named first a Kleagle (recruiter) and later being given the honorific title of Exalted Cyclops.

[SunkenCiv]

Former President Bill Clinton... Speaking at Byrd's funeral in Charleston today... seemed to criticize newspaper eulogies that dwelled on Byrd's association with the Klan... 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."

Clinton apologized for things we as a nation didn't do wrong, and has never apologized for (or even admitted) his various crime, infidelities, and baldfaced lies -- so it's no surprise that he didn't point out that Byrd never apologized for having belonged to the KKK. Funny that he never apologized. Gosh, it's almost as if he never resigned his membership. Thanks Sub-Driver.

[ichabod1]

Bull. He was a Grand Dragon or Grand Vizier or whatever in the West Virginia Klavern.

[cruise_missile]

Hitler got the National Socialist party going to get elected.

[Biblebelter]

Clinton is a SOCIOPATH. He not only perfected what we call on this forum Arkancide, he was a serial rapist.

A SOCIOPATH can justify any pathology, and defending the racism of Bobby Byrd came very easily.

[NonValueAdded]

So in other words, Byrd was so driven to seek power that he compromised any principles he might have had and did something reprehensible? That is Clinton’s defense of the man?

[FreeReign]

Byrd vigorously opposed the integration of the military, and wrote in 1946 that the KKK was "needed today as never before."

Byrd was a Jackass.

[JimSEA]

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.

[plain talk]

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 “

[kennyboy509]

works for me.

[Darkwolf377]

How much did Michael Steele pay Clinton to say that?

[Principle Over Politics]

A simple case of politics over principle. Nothing to see here folks, move along. Everybody does it. /s

[Hoodat]

That’s like saying Hitler demonized the Jews to help him get elected.

[grey_whiskers]

Yep. As the longest-serving Democrat Senator.

Meanwhile, the GOP threw David Duke *OUT* before he got elected dogcatcher.

Cheers!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Clinton says Byrd joined KKK to help him get elected

Oh good! I joined the Mormon Church to quit drinking!

[VideoDoctor]

And Hitler killed Jews so he could get his name in the paper. /s

[Cheerio]

Clinton says Byrd joined KKK to help him get elected

Once again, proof positive the RATS will do anything to win an election - NO MORALS WHATSOEVER. But boy oh boy, when a GOP Congressman sends nasty emails to his adult page, he must resign. When Trent Lott makes a tasteless funny, he must resign. When America voters turn off the 19" peephole into paradise and become educated on the differences between the parties, then and only then the GOP might stand a chance of taking back Congress.

[Liberty Valance]

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[A Navy Vet]

So I guess billy-boy would be okay when Lynard Skynard drops the rebel flag in their concerts? After all, they are just good ole boys. Actually, they are, or were now that there is little left of them.

[A Navy Vet]

As I point my finger at you and sing-song my way out of the impeachment mess, along with entire Demorat party standing behind them. I still hate that man. He will be forever remembered for staining an intern's dress while on the phone to a world leader.

Here's my list of oval office squatters: 1. obambi 2. carter 3. clinton 4. FDR 5. Wilson