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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (130218)	3/4/2001 6:31:21 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Ish, you mean the same Senator Byrd who belonged to the Klu Klux Klan during his twenties and referred to the KKK as "an effective force in the struggle against communism and in the promotion of traditional American values." The same Senator Byrd who in 1964, demonstrated his mastery of procedure by filibustering the Civil Rights Act for more than 14 hours, one of the longest such delays in Senate history. The same Senator Byrd who voted against the Supreme Court nominations of Thurgood Marshall, and Clarence Thomas. The same Senator Byrd who said he would never fight in an integrated armed forces. "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," Someone should call the 911 hotline of political ambulance chaser Jesse Jackson? Ooops, I forgot, he's a Democratic politician isn't he?

To: Ish who wrote (130218)	3/4/2001 8:00:52 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I grew up with a black kid who was my best friend in Boy Scouts and the only other of our troop who went on campouts. I knew of the term Byrd used, but it is still offensive to me and I never utter it even in the context he used. Byrd should have had better sense. I do not think we will see anything like this out of the Bush camp.