Want to hear something scary?

[Stoner]

Robert "KKK" Byrd is 3rd in line to become president.

So if there's this big barbecue and the pig they're roasting explodes, killing Bush and Cheney dies of a heart attack trying to pull Bush to safety but accidentally knocks Pelosi into the pool while doing so and she drowns because she can't swim with her $1,000 shoes on...we get a former KKK member as our leader http://planetsmilies.net/shocked-smiley-9449.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

[ECW]

Scarier than the two running the show right now? I think not.

[Buck Laser]

Robert "KKK" Byrd is 3rd in line to become president.

Now there's a tired old bunch of crap if I ever heard one. Byrd's membership in the Klan is so far back in history that it's almost even before I was born.:P I'm surprised that you would even bother to bring it up. I worry a lot more about the misdeeds of the current crew in office than about what Byrd did back before the middle of the twentieth century.

It is heartening to be reminded though that there's another elected official in the line of succession before we get to the cabinet officials as successors to the presidency. I suspect that we're gonna see a lot of leaders fall in the coming months.

[BoogyMan]

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.

Stoner, I certainly hope that he has set aside his racist ideology. The quote above was written in a letter to Mississippi Senator Theodor Bilbo during the debate surrounding racial integration of the military. He wrote the above quote in regard to fighting side by side with black Americans. Byrd was 28 and the year was 1945.

A long time ago? Yes. Can men change? Yes.

He filibustered the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and was in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but he DID vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

In my view however, Byrd made changes in his views in order to appear as a more mainstream Democrat and to make a bid to be a player on a national level.

[Alonzo]

In the NAACP's [19] Congressional Report Card for the 108th Congress (spanning the 2003–2004 congressional session), Byrd was awarded with an approval rating of 100% for favoring the NAACP's position in all 33 bills presented to the United States Senate regarding issues of their concern. Only 16 other Senators of the same session matched this approval rating. In June 2005, Byrd [20] proposed an additional $10 million in federal funding for the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington, DC, remarking that "With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

[BoogyMan]

In the NAACP's [19] Congressional Report Card for the 108th Congress (spanning the 2003–2004 congressional session), Byrd was awarded with an approval rating of 100% for favoring the NAACP's position in all 33 bills presented to the United States Senate regarding issues of their concern. Only 16 other Senators of the same session matched this approval rating. In June 2005, Byrd [20] proposed an additional $10 million in federal funding for the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington, DC, remarking that "With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd


From my previous commentary:

In my view however, Byrd made changes in his views in order to appear as a more mainstream Democrat and to make a bid to be a player on a national level.

[Stoner]

Don't be fooled. The man is still a racist.

[BoogyMan]

Don't be fooled.Â*Â*The man is still a racist.


That is pretty much the point of my commentary. :D

[Stoner]

That is pretty much the point of my commentary. :D


That was actually intended to another poster who thinks Byrd is a good, decent, moral man.

[Buck Laser]

Don't be fooled. The man is still a racist.


And you're still a stoner with an interest in perpetrating lies. So what else is new?

[ECW]

Better to be a racist who has reformed than to be either of two idiots who are too stupid to reform. Harry Byrd is a better man than Chimpy and Grumpy put together. Byrd saw his mistake and corrected it. Chimpy has never made a mistake (except for lying about never having made a mistake).

Don't be fooled. The man is still a racist.

Prove it.