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Rewind to Summer '02 -

From The Other White Meat To The Other White Sheet

Along with his penchant for pork spending, Byrd has also gotten attention in the past overall for civil rights issues and race relations - especially in the spring of 2001 when he made a rare appearance on a weekend show (Fox News Sunday) only to find himself under fire for having casually dropped the term "white niggers" during his appearance.

"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country..." said Byrd in his remarks on Fox News Sunday. Of course, during that same appearance Byrd recalled how his mother had once told him "you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody."

The remarks predictably generated a quick firestorm of controversy - or at least they did for a couple of weeks. At the end of the day, Byrd was basically shielded by the capital "D" (for Democrat, of course) next to his name, and possibly to a lesser extent, his age. Republicans were quick to point out that if one of their own had made a similar transgression or even committed some lesser offense, they would have been swamped with angry calls for resignation and harsh criticism from Democratic civil rights activists.

One reason Byrd's comments didn't generate much of a long-term backlash was that his background as a member of the KKK was already fairly well known and something he has apologized for in the past. In fact, one detail that critics often cite is that instead of just being a casual member, Byrd was a "Kleagle" who got $10 a head for recruiting new members.

And let us not forget, Lincoln was a Republican!

Sausalito is a ritzy, suburb of San Francisco and Marin County most recently made headlines as the home of American Taliban John Walker Lindh.

According to the Marin (California) Times, Alex Sanders appeared at the ‘Taj Mahal’ houseboat of John Luongo to charm about 30 influential Democratic donors “eager to make a suggested donation of $10,000 apiece” to Sanders campaign.

At the event, Luongo called South Carolina’s senior Senator, “a political troglodyte.”

According to dictionary.com, troglodyte is, “a member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens or holes.” It also means, “a person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.”