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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (520593)	1/6/2004 9:07:08 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Was or was not Byrd a member of the KKK? Was the KKK a racist organization? Did the KKK promote cross burning? Another democratic ahole.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (520593)	1/6/2004 9:11:51 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Robert Byrd Sounds like a Pete Rose style apology, though it's no apology at all.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (520593)	1/6/2004 9:12:32 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

I am sure he hasn't burnt a cross or hanged a black man in years.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (520593)	1/6/2004 9:12:46 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Associated Press WASHINGTON - Questioning the motives of a "desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior," Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd on Tuesday reproached President Bush for flying onto an aircraft carrier last week to declare an end of major fighting in Iraq. bayarea.com Now, if it was a cross burning, Knight Byrd would have been there in a minute! Perhaps Byrd can explain why he attended all those KKK meetings. Here is what Byrd had to say about the integration of the US military – A year later, in 1948, Byrd opposed President Truman's initiative to integrate the Armed Forces - and he did so using the language of a very much active Klansman. The powerful Senate Democrat vowed then that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. 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." newsmax.com I think I prefer our President and his approach to defending America.