[finnman69]

She did NOT give the right response on this question. I heard the interview and she really hemmed and hawed answering this one.

[finnman69]

Someone send this to Jesse Jackson.

[aristeides]

I wonder if she thinks the same is true of former Nazis. What about former members of al Qaeda?

[mhking]

...but Jesse, she's a Democrat -- whaddaya mean you aren't gonna challenge her on what she said!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Mayor Stapleton of Denver was once a KKK member, later quit the organization.

[dead]

Actually, I'd go even further.

I think active membership in the KKK should not disqualify a person from serving in congress if he garners enough votes in his district.

Ignorant assholes have as much a right to representation as anybody else. This is America.

[hoosierboy]

bump to read later

[SES1066]

Illinois Dem: KKK Membership OK for Congress

Ah, but the key question is what is her view on electing Republicans to Congress?

[republicman]

Why not Robert Byrd was in the KKK?

Of course most people don't know that because the mianstream media never points it out. After all if you have a D by your name, it excuses every bad deed you've ever done or ever will do.

[pulaskibush]

As I recall, Robert Byrd wasn't just in the Klan. He was a person of authority within the organization.

As I also recall, he has never publicly separated/condemned himself from this organization. Which would not make it ok even if he had.

[rohry]

"Initially Schakowski tried to defend Byrd's Klan membership by falsely claiming that Republican Senators Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms had also once belonged to the KKK.

But the ploy was short circuited when Hannity told Schakowski she was wrong."

We need to get her to come on more shows. She seems to play loose with the facts. She was on another show where she claimed that "Sadam's Bombmaker" was discredited before her House committee. She later retracted that charge.

[hattend]

Rep. Jan Schakowski, D-Ill., said Thursday that Ku Klux Klan members should be allowed to serve in Congress as long as they had resigned from the domestic terror group and had publicly renounced its beliefs.

If you did the latter (repudiate the organization) why would you be the former (a member)? Or did she mean "former" memebr?

[republicman]

To my knowlegde Byrd has never renounced his membership in the KKK.

Shakowski is a true Stalinist, as long as you are in the party, no offense is too eggregious to warrant condemnation.

[Scruffy]

While the KKK, Black Nationalists, etc., are all groups that I don't care for, the term, "domestic terror group", is something that scares me even more. Once the government can have authority over thought, speech, or association, they can control anything; thought, speech, and associations.

[hchutch]

Get this air time, and broadcast it!

[concerned about politics]

No, not if you've totally rejected it - my goodness. .........("Everybody does it" - Clinton defence)

[Man of the Right]

Byrd would argue he needs his Senate salary to pay for the linen.

[weikel]

Like Sen Byrd?

[Sonny M]

Off the bat, Senator Byrd was a grand dragon in the KKK. He also used the "N word" in an interview only a couple of years ago on TV. He meant it as a slur, but made it vague where it could also apply to white people. David Duke never actually left the klan, he was thrown out. He claims he left, they claim they tossed him. It appears that Duke was selling the roster lists to other groups who would solicit members with materials and stuff. (there's a reason they wear hoods). He got caught by the klan through, and this is funny, a jewish accountant who was helping him, who told some friends and they ratted on him. He then renounced the klan and ran for office, He is currently in a new organization he founded called NOFEAR (National Organization For European American Rights). Senator Byrd has been known to still drop racial slurs every now and then, but now he directs them, only at black conservatives (i.e. uncle tom, house ni##er). There have been rumors of Byrd having been witness to a lynching, he was at numerious cross burnings, and did take part in harassing numerious african american families with threats of violence and vandalism. He is also alleged to have been involved in worse inside the klan, to maintain disipline.

[TBP]

Note the difference between the way conservatives handle Klan members and the way liberals do.

And it really doesn't matter to lefties like Schakowsky if Thurmond and Helms were ever in the KKK or not. If you're going to point out white Sheet bobby's membership, well, then, in Liberal World, Thurmond and Helms SHOULD HAVE been in the Klan -- therefore, they were. Never mind actual facts. These are liberals we're dealing with.

[Dengar01]

Jan Schakowsky makes me sick as an Illinois resident. Too bad we have morons in the city who are illiterate and stupid and will continue to vote for her. All they know is democrat good republican bad. Or better yet Democrat = food stamps, Republican = honest work.