Posted on 07/21/2019 8:29:46 AM PDT by mplc51
Vice President Joe Biden on Monday remembered the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) as a legend of the upper chamber and a friend who was there for him in a time of need.
Biden spoke while discussing the federal stimulus package at a General Electric plant in Louisville, Ky. Biden, who served in the Senate for 36 years, remembered how Byrd showed up to the funeral of his wife and one-year-old daughter after they were killed in a car crash weeks following his 1972 election.
The vice president called Byrd "a guy who was there when I was a 29-year-old kid being sworn into the United States Senate shortly thereafter; a guy who stood in the rain, in a pouring rain, freezing rain outside a church as I buried my daughter and my wife before I got sworn in, Robert C. Byrd," adding that "we lost the dean of the United States Senate, but also the state of West Virginia lost its most fierce advocate and, as I said, I lost a dear friend."
Biden also memorialized Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. lawmaker ever, as an institution, and said that "the Senate is a lesser place for his going.
"He may have spent half a century in Washington. But theres a guy if anybody wondered he never, never, never, never took his eye off his beloved mountain state," Biden said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Confirmation that Creepy Joe is being shown the door. They want him gone!
Wait till Biden calls Trump a racist, This is Trump ACE in the hole.
Now we are up to 6 white supremacists praised by Biden
Eastland (D)
Talmadge (D)
Hollings (D)
Davis (D)
Wallace (D)
Byrd (D)
All Democrats
Byrd a leader? In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia
There’s a worse quote than this one - where Biden says he was ‘on the South’s side’ in the Civil War... I’ll see if I can find the links..
Dude is trying to lose or is light in the upstairs.
There is just NO WAY he is this oblivious or handlers this careless.
“The vice president called Byrd “a guy who was there when I was a 29-year-old kid being sworn into the United States Senate “
So Biden admits he violated the Constitution. Either he didn’t know it or just simply didn’t care that it says a Senator must be 30.
Joe Biden in 1987: We (Delawareans) Were on the Souths Side in the Civil War
On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Bidens surfaced ...
MORE AT LINK:
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3765305/posts
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-delaware-civil-war-860886/
Joe Biden in 1987: We (Delawareans) Were on the Souths Side in the Civil War
On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Bidens surfaced ...
MORE AT LINK:
J
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3765305/posts
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-delaware-civil-war-860886/
Joe Biden on Robert Byrd's death: "We lost the dean of the United States Senate and, as I said, I lost a dear friend."
U.S. Constitution
The Constitution sets three qualifications for service in the U.S. Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents at time of election. The details of these qualifications were hammered out by the Constitution’s framers during the Constitutional Convention in 1787
When elected, he was 29. When sworn in, he was 30.
November 20 birthday.
"...America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd..."
Sources say they burned crosses together. You know...”sources”...
It’s too bad Al Gore’s Father isn’t considered; he was for anything that kept blacks out of schools, restaurants, and in the public.
Looks like the Democrats are cleaning out the old guard. Oh wait. That would be the old traitors. And now theyre installing even worse ones.
And Byrd was there when Biden went to the Klan tailor to be fitted for his first robe.
For Joe Biden that's NOT true... IT'S OVER JOE!
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