The Passing of Senator Byrd (FLASHBACK)

Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.

Senator Byrd was a man of surpassing eloquence and nobility. And I will remember him for many things, but most of all for a heartfelt comment he made to me in the dark days following the attack on our country on 9/11. My state of New York was reeling and we were scrambling to provide support and relief. “Think of me as the third senator from New York,” he said. And he meant it. Thanks to the leadership of Senator Byrd, who chaired the Appropriations Committee, New Yorkers and Americans got the help we needed. I will never forget his devotion and his friendship in that critical time.

It is almost impossible to imagine the United States Senate without Robert Byrd. He was not just its longest serving member, he was its heart, its soul, and its historian. From my first day in the Senate, I sought out his guidance, and he was always generous with his time and his wisdom. I admired his tireless advocacy for his West Virginia constituents, his fierce defense of the Constitution and the traditions of the Senate, and his passion for a government that improves the lives of the people it serves.

As Secretary of State, I continued to rely on his advice and counsel. I‘ve been grateful for the support he provided as a leader of the Appropriations Committee to our diplomats and development workers as they serve our country and advance our interests all over the world.

Robert C. Byrd led by the power of his example, and he made all of us who had the honor of serving as his colleagues better public servants and better citizens. After more than five decades of service, he left an indelible imprint on the Senate, on West Virginia, and on our nation. We will not see his like again.

I am heartened to know that Senator Byrd is now reunited with his beloved Erma, the high-school sweetheart who became his wife of nearly 70 years, the love and light of his life. My thoughts and prayers are with their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Robert C. Byrd left such a legacy.

Hillary has a way of putting both feet in her big mouth in her attempt to smear others.

While Sen. Byrd was one her mentors, Sen. Fulbright (D-Ark), another anti-black racist, was the mentor of now Secy of State John F. Kerry. Fulbright hated blacks and Vietnamese and probably Jews, the Amish, and Japanese to boot.

One of FDR’s Supreme Court justices was so anti-Semitic that he wouldn’t talk to fellow Justice Brandeiss? or Cardoza? who was Jewish.

Yep. The Democrats sure are all for universal brotherhood/sisterhood/trannyhood, except when it occurs in the Moslem world. If there was no Moslem money as gifts, the Clinton Foundation and Initiative and Bordello would have collapsed years ago.

And if Hillary says that she has Jewish in-laws, which she does, she will probably conveniently omit the fact that Chelsea’s husband is a horrible hedge fund manager, his father went to jail for economic crimes, and his uncle was a well known anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist (aka anti-non-Marxist Israel) (Norton Mezvinsky).

If any Democrat leader talks about “hate”, they should look in mirror and see the “sheets” staring back at them (Little Rock, Selma, Mississippi Burning, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK, a Democrat political organization).

And just for Hillary, nobody ever called you a “damned Jew” as I was or shoot your relatives down in the streets of Lemberg/Lvov or send them to the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

If you want to know “hate”, look at the history of the Democrat Party, many of its leaders, the Eugenics of Margaret Sanger, the mass murder of tens of millions of black Africans by Rachel Carson’s false science that led to the banning of DDT to fight malaria, and the Black Lives Matters/supporters demonstrations and attacks on the police and Trump supporters.

Hate begins at home, baby, and you have “The House of Hate” of the century, the Democrat Party.

Probably one of the few times Byrd was ever associated with a legitmate reason for a White Cross on a lawn.

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