Wow…just wow!

So many things to pick apart. Bill Clinton excuses Robert (KKK) Byrd’s more than “fleeting” involvement with the KKK by saying he did so to get elected.

I guess David Duke can now take heart.

According to Bubba a person can do ANYTHING to get elected. Rob a bank, hang a black man, so long as your just a poor “Boy from West Virginia” and you’re trying to get elected. Heck, come to think about it that just about excuses all of Clinton’s indiscretions before and after becoming president eh?

By the way, I wonder with the coming midterms I wonder how West Virginians feels about being referred to -in an indirect way – as racist?

By the way, David Frum, whom you’ll know I have no love loss with nails the media hypocrisy on Byrd with a chronology of his racist past.

Highlights of Robert Byrd’s history of race relations include:

– 1942: Joins the KKK; eventually rises to the rank of “Exalted Cyclops.”

– 1945: Writes “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.”

– 1947: Says in a letter that the Klan is needed “like never before” and declares that he is “anxious to see its rebirth.”

– 1964: Attempts to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn’t out of principled libertarian support for property rights. Cites a racist study claiming that black people’s brains are statistically smaller than white people’s.

– 1967: Votes against Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court nomination. Went to J. Edgar Hoover to see if Marshall had any Communist ties that could ruin his nomination.

– 1968: Tells the FBI that it’s time that Martin Luther King, Jr., “met his Waterloo.” FBI ignores him.

– 1991: Votes Against Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination. Becomes the only senator in the body to have voted against both black Supreme Court nominees.

– 2001: Refers to what he called “white niggers” on national television. Try to imagine, say, Haley Barbour being given a pass after calling someone a “white nigger.”

Yeah, anything it takes.