Nope. You'll here more from these bastards. They will say anything to further their marxist ideals. Doesn't matter who did what or who is saying what or who won't release records or who will lie or who will compromise or who will spend your money or who will kill capitalism through their spending or who will take your money or who will just piss up your leg, and tell you it's raining. You ain't seen nothing, yet.
Thanks for your Secret Service, shipmate. I was Aviation Navy on Gator flight decks. I was asked to do sub duty, but I couldn't do it. You have my undying gratitude. Attack or Boomer? Either way, I'm impressed.
Maybe Bubba really did have a stroke. Of course, fantastic lies are one of his specialties.
Billy, Billy, Billy... Hitler was just trying to get elected too...
Young Bill probably went to a few rallies himself during his days in Hot Springs ARK
You have to love Bubba...
Betcha Byrd has saved a nice warm seat for Bubba ... between him and Teddy Kennedy.
Compare that with the “Shameful” treatment at Sen. Strom Thurmond's Funeral. Most of his Senate colleagues, save a couple of them showed up, certainly President Bush did not go to the funeral although Dick Cheney was there.
I do not know whether Byrd tried to make amends during the latter part of his career but I do know that Thurmond did and gave a lot of opportunities to Blacks when he could.
Clinton's remarks on their face are ridiculous, naive and certainly disingenuous. Byrd was a an embarrassment and given that Fox interview he did several years ago I doubt he really had changed that much.
Clinton and the rest of Democrats showed their Hypocrisy and the Stench of Mendacity was God Awful at that Funeral.
“And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up.”
“Making it up” alright.
Byrd joined the KKK in 1942. His first elective office was a seat in the WV House of Delegates, which he won in '46, 4 years later. In fact, it wasn't until AFTER Byrd was in the KKK that politics dawned on him. From Wiki: According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "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."
And as for Clinton's claim that Byrd's participation in the Klan was "fleeting", or Byrd's own statement that he became disinterested in the Klan after about a year, this is what Byrd wrote 4 or 5 years after he joined (again from Wiki): In 1946 or 1947 Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."
It’s pretty amazing that being in an organization whose members wear pointy white sheets over their heads, burn crosses, give each other weird and ridiculous titles like “Exalted Cyclops,” and after all that still think that they are superior to everyone else, would make a person more electable.
Whenever BJ starts something with, “I’ll tell you...”, you know that BS will follow.
“Byrd vigorously opposed the integration of the military, and wrote in 1946 that the KKK was “needed today as never before.”
So he spent the rest of his life, after about four years of virulent racism during a war against a virulently racist lunatic and his army of virulent racists, making up for his “fleeting association” with the KKK? Clinton reveals more about himself than he intended to.
And Byrd quit the klan to get RE-elected.
...but he stayed in for what the chicks? The top quality dental plan?
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.