Byrd Endorses Obama
By California Yankee Posted in 2008 | Byrd. | KKK | Obama — Comments (13) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
West Virginia Democrat, Senator Robert C. Byrd, announced he supports Obama for president, even though his state voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary.
I never thought I'd see the day when a former KKK official -- Byrd served as both a Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops (leader of his local KKK chapter) -- would support a black man for president. Maybe the Democrats are progressive after all.
Picture courtesy of Byrd's Senate biography
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Byrd needs to go home or check into one. He hurts the Democratic party. Bloviating, political "finger in the wind" pork/panderer. I know you might say that about all our guys but please cut me some slack on this piece of work. Who wouldn't switch off CSPAN when he has the floor.
Is it just me or as any Senator approaches 90, does his similarity in appearance to Strom Thurmond begin to approach 1?
Anyway, despite the repeating snickering about our resident Kleagle in the Senate, the fact this guy can endorse a black man for president does say something rather good about this country. Even if his motivation is expediency (which, given WV vote, it might not even be that).
The Exalted Cyclopse? these people thought they'd be taken seriously?
Have your chickens come home to roost lately?
Conservatives
Be hopeful and sure that just as we have lost members the dems will losing many more over the next couple of years as well.....
"The Senator Robert C. Byrd Staff endorses Barack Obama"
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion
I was going to ask if he knew he had done so.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
What really would have been interesting is if Obama had been a Republican. I mean, it's historically interesting that Byrd is endorsing him in one sense, but in another it isn't -- particularly given how much so many people in the Democratic Party want to get rid of the Clintons, who are becoming entirely too nettlesome in this campaign and obviously must be stopped before they've really lost.
It would have been much more interesting to see whether or not Byrd would have supported him if he was a Republican running as the first serious Black Presidential candidate.
C'mon. Byrd endorsed the only guy he could in this election. And everyone knows why; it wasn't a tough decision.
As well as about 68% of his constituents. Still counts for something, although the comment above about his staffers is relevant.
I try to take all Byrd bashing with a grain of salt, since I certainly used to use Strom Thurmond as the poster child for racist Democrat turned Republican and most of my Republican friends were unamused. Good for the goose, good for the gander, I suppose.
I will not miss Senator Byrd when he retires.
What I think the real kicker is here is that this comes at a time when Obama is trying to convince Democrats that he can win the support of whites living in fly-over country. I'll go out on a limb here and say that Obama probably thinks that the former KKK member who just a few years ago used the term "white nigger" in an interview is representative of such people.
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