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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (86719)	6/28/2010 2:37:13 PM
From: MJ	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Senator Byrd's knowledge of history is not uncommon in West Virginia. Rather it was the norm in West Virginia. When Obama referred to West Virginians as ignorant Bible carrying, gun toting people West Virginians were highly insulted as were others in the USA. The education that Byrd evidenced is the classical education that many West Virginians of his era and later learned and knew-------Latin, historical books, encyclopedias stood beside those Bibles as they developed West Virginia. Sure they liked and still like their guns. Who wouldn't like their guns if you lived in rattlesnake territory in the hills and valleys of West Virginia. And, yes the Christian religions were and are a part of the heritage of that state settled by the Europeans-----England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France primarily with Germans coming later. It's unfortunate that Senator Byrd was not successful in getting his message across to Obama as we are now faced with a man without experience wielding his own power as he wishes. If there is one regret that Byrd could express in death my own feeling is that Byrd would express regret for having failed in getting Obama to put the nation first by not running for POTUS in 2007 through 2008. mj