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“Sheets” Byrd.
Good thing she didn’t say something nice about him on his birthday. That might have cost her seat. /s
IIRC, when Slick Willie gave the eulogy he stated “Sheets” was forced to join the KKK if he was running as a Demoncrat.
He was adopted but was still related to the Byrd’s of Virginia. They were a very distinguished family.
He used to really make me mad at times but he sometimes would do the right thing. Hillary never does the right thing.
It would be a shame if Cankles has to make a similar speech about Harry Reid soon.
“a man of surpassing eloquence and nobility”
Hillary’s speechwriter sure can ladle the s***.
Eventhough Robert Byrd was a member of KKK, I will give him this credit. He was the first to go on the floor and warned Obama that he was overstepping his presidential powers boundary. I believe Obama was in his first or second year of his first term.
I remember him as a KKK Grand Dragon. Most people tend to forget that.
The KKK guy and given a pass. Not so with Trent Lott and the Strom Thurmond caper. Reverse the roles and you know where the ‘outrage’ from the Left would be.
Robert Byrd[edit]
oooooooops! they left this out!
Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s.
West Virginia’s Democratic United States Senator Robert C. Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[9]
Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his “greatest mistake.” The NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues during the 108th Congress.[10] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase “white niggers” on a national television broadcast.[11]