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Biden remembers Byrd as a great KKK leader, 'dear friend'
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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 there’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Delaware; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: biden; byrd; clowncar; delaware; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; kkk; racist; robertbyrd; virginia; westvirginia
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1 posted on 07/21/2019 8:29:46 AM PDT by mplc51
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Confirmation that Creepy Joe is being shown the door. They want him gone!


2 posted on 07/21/2019 8:32:33 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Wait till Biden calls Trump a racist, This is Trump ACE in the hole.


3 posted on 07/21/2019 8:34:01 AM PDT by mplc51
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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


4 posted on 07/21/2019 8:41:02 AM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: mplc51

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


5 posted on 07/21/2019 8:43:18 AM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: mplc51

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..


6 posted on 07/21/2019 8:47:12 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: mplc51

Dude is trying to lose or is light in the upstairs.

There is just NO WAY he is this oblivious or handlers this careless.


7 posted on 07/21/2019 8:51:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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“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.


8 posted on 07/21/2019 9:10:48 AM PDT by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: mplc51; Menehune56; Rocko Jack; Rapscallion; VanDeKoik; DaiHuy; x

Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’

On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s 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/


9 posted on 07/21/2019 9:18:07 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: mplc51; Menehune56; Rocko Jack; Rapscallion; VanDeKoik; DaiHuy; x

Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’

On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s 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/


10 posted on 07/21/2019 9:18:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Joe Biden in 1987: ‘We (Delawareans) Were on the South’s Side in the Civil War’)
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Robert Byrd: "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

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."

11 posted on 07/21/2019 9:23:51 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: DaiHuy

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


12 posted on 07/21/2019 9:48:22 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: DaiHuy

When elected, he was 29. When sworn in, he was 30.

November 20 birthday.


13 posted on 07/21/2019 9:52:26 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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,,,,,,,,,,What the hell; look what 0bummah said:

"...America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd..."

14 posted on 07/21/2019 9:53:24 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: mplc51

Sources say they burned crosses together. You know...”sources”...


15 posted on 07/21/2019 10:03:48 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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I hate it that the KKK co-opted the US Flag, the Cross, and the Confederate Battle Flag for their symbols. The Confederate Battle Flag was the low hanging fruit and the liberals and ignorant made it the scapegoat. They have been so successful that the CBF is outlawed in areas of the country and vilified at much every turn. The truth is that the flag was only used by the Confederate troops in the field and never adopted by the Confederate government.
16 posted on 07/21/2019 10:04:54 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Rocko Jack

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.


17 posted on 07/21/2019 10:07:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Looks like the Democrats are cleaning out the old guard. Oh wait. That would be the old traitors. And now they’re installing even worse ones.


18 posted on 07/21/2019 10:43:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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And Byrd was there when Biden went to the Klan tailor to be fitted for his first robe.


19 posted on 07/21/2019 10:44:03 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: mplc51
Yogi Berra once said "it ain't over 'til it's over."

For Joe Biden that's NOT true... IT'S OVER JOE!

20 posted on 07/21/2019 11:32:50 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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