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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: American Spirit who wrote (63446)6/19/2005 4:17:50 PM
From: longnshortRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Byrd the Butcher

I have often read that Tom DeLay was a former exterminator and that Dennis Hastert was a former wrestling coach. These characterizations have been a way to disparage these Republican leaders.

Why is Senator Robert Byrd never mentioned as having been a former butcher? If he were a Republican, wouldn't many in the press gleefully call him, "former butcher and KKK leader"? Instead they reverently call him a "Constitutional Scholar" which, judging by his educational credentials, he is not.