Ex-Klansman Blocks Condi's Confirmation

Newsmax ^ | 1/21/05 | Carl Limbacher

[Mikmur]

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 12:24 a.m. EST Ex-Klansman Blocks Condi's Confirmation A former Ku Klux Klansman who once vowed to keep the military segregated is single-handedly holding up the confirmation of Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice, the first African-American woman to be appointed to the office.

"Senator Robert Byrd, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, announced late [Wednesday] that he would not allow the Senate to approve Ms. Rice without a few days of consideration of her lengthy testimony, and at least a token debate on the floor," reports the New York Times. Sen. Byrd's maneuver came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved her nomination by a vote of 16 to 2. Story Continues Below The West Virginia Democrat, who officially left the Klan in 1943 but continued to advise the anti-black group for years afterward, said through a spokesman that he was merely assuring that the Senate fulfilled its constitutional role of advise and consent. But the decision by Democrats to make Sen. Byrd the point man in the continuing assault against such a prominent African-American is a particulary awkward one, given his long history of racial misconduct.

[Mikmur]

It is high time the escapades of wicked people like Byrd and his ilk be brought to light, brought to shame and brought down from power.

[Bikers4Bush]

I still fond it comical that the party that claims to represent minorites has a former klansman serving as a senator.

[Bikers4Bush]

find not fond

[Vaquero]

What a sweetheart this old bastard is. What keeps this old skeleton alive anyway????

[pookie18]

I still find it comical that the party that claims to represent minorites...

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[crz]

The dam ignorant voters of WV! Thats who. How can a state vote for a republican as POTUS and then vote for a criminal like this for the senate?

[Defender2]

#5. Hatred, unfortunately.

[TBall]

"Ex-Klansman" I don't know, I figure once a klansman always a klansman. I bet he is just furious that black woman has been selected for such an important position.

[astounded]

Inbreeding...

[lunarbicep]

ping

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

Very much agree with you.
In fact their downfall with the American people started with Tom Daschle and John Kerry.
Barbara Boxer, and Hitlery Clinton are on thin ice.

Byrd, unfortunately will have to die in office because the democratic party structure seems to have a strangle hold on West Virginia politics.

[TonyRo76]

Senator Byrd in his younger days, surveying the plantation...

[timtoews5292004]

What a sweetheart this old bastard is. What keeps this old skeleton alive anyway???? The dark side of the force, like the emperor in star wars. I find it an amazing coincidence that a klansman wouldn't want to appoint a black woman to a high office.

[NCC-1701]

"...continued to advise the anti-black group..."

The Klan is not ONLT anti black. They are also anti Catholic and anti Jew. If Condi falls into either of the latter two categories, that makes KKK Byrd not only a racist, but a religous bigot to boot. Being Catholic myself, I am offended by KKK Byrd for just about any reason that can be thought of. He needs to retire and STFU.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

..."he wants to discuss her merits on the floor"...

Please... Do you actually believe that?
Or are you trying to seem evenhanded?

People like robt. byrd don't "discuss" any thing.
They force their personal will and prejudices on their hapless constituents.

[gulfcoast6]

I say it once more, when he talks in the senate, watch his hand and arm movements, he is sending 'coded messages' to his Klan buddies. He has learned well from bin laden.

[NCC-1701]

ONLT = ONLY.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I'm with you on the anti-Catholic bigotry. These Democrats are going to pull enough of these stunts to thoroughly marginalize themselves. Our job is make sure everybody knows about them in excruciating detail.

As a personal aside, I attended a Catholic college in West Virginia which these days seems to be "canonizing" Ol' "Sheets" Byrd because of all the federal money he's brought in. I raised the question of his Klan past and how the Klan hated Catholics as much as they did blacks, but, of course, got no response.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

The party of the slave owner strikes again.

The Democrats, like the Taliban, want to go back to a simpler time ...

[KansasConservative1]

Why is it suprising that Senator Byrd (a former KKK member) is holding up the confirmation of a African American appointee.

[Bar-Face]

Don't be too hard on old Sheets. Sheets and friends really do miss the days of Bilbo, Conner, Faubus, Eastland, Mattux and sooo many others. Why, back then they were able to keep them uppity N****** in their place. Now which Republican will have the nerve to call the B******* on this? IMHO, none! They will just sit there and let that racist bunch trash Ms Rice. Their silence will again in my opinion, make them willing accomplices.

[massgopguy]

Condi Rice's schoolmates and neighbors included two of the four girls who were killed in the bombing of the 13th Street Church in Birmingham AL. I wonder if anyone who joined the KKK because they were recruited by Byrd had a hand in it?

[NCC-1701]

"... but, of course, got no response...."

What did you expect from the sheeple in WV? With Sheets as their sinator, wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. They are living a denial in WV.

[massgopguy]

I always could feel the love when we would travel to Morgantown. That's one Big East rival I won't miss.

[KansasConservative1]

I wrote every news organization and hammered them on their silence. This is pure racism...

[Fresh Wind]

Byrd was re-elected in 2000 by a margin of 78% to 20%. He will never be voted out of office.

[Let's Roll]

If, instead of quickly confirming her which is gonna happen anyway, they prefer letting the world and their constituents see them hassle and diss a black woman, we should spend the next week pointing out their racism and misogyny at every opportunity.

You can't pay for this kind of opportunity. Sunday talk shows should be wall to wall with our disapproval and tsk-tsking.

[OldFriend]

Clearly Byrd speaks for the democrat party on this matter.

Call the US Capitol and let them know what you think.....1-800-839-5276

[AmishDude]

If the Dems take control of the Senate, Byrd becomes president pro tempore.

[Defender2]

#23. I did not know that info, before. Good question.

Best Freegards,

D2

[GeekDejure]

ONLT = ONLY.

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[lucysmom]

If, instead of quickly confirming her which is gonna happen anyway, they prefer letting the world and their constituents see them hassle and diss a black woman, we should spend the next week pointing out their racism and misogyny at every opportunity.

Attributing opposition to racism is, itself, racist.

[shellshocked]

"a former klansman serving as a senator.
"

"former"?

[1903A3]

FORMER ???
Don't bet the farm on that

[sandbar]

>the democratic party structure seems to have a strangle >hold on West Virginia politics.

That's the way it was in Georgia for years. Thank Goodness that stranglehold has finally broken years. Although I don't mind the southern democrat party, Zell Miller was the best governor we ever had.

[shubi]

Did he wear his Grand Dragon outfit when he delayed Condi's confirmation?

[TomGuy]

Well, after the '06 elections, the Pubbies might have a majority and then they'll show'em!!!


[end sarcasm]

[danno3150]

Robert Byrd - Muslin Terrorist

[JennysCool]

It's good to recall this little item, reported by Michelle Malkin:

Meanwhile, author Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed forces. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "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."

[NCC-1701]

Ha Ha!

[JennysCool]

Not a pretty pretty pretty situation.

[cubreporter]

It's ALWAYS about the money.

[bert]

mostly, he's a lost old man. In his confused state he can do nothing but lash out in vindicative hate, hoping his blind flailing will do some harm.

He will not last long. His life is closing and death will be a soothing action.

[cubreporter]

Byrd thinks he's still living in the times when he thought he was better. He's an uppity stale old man and should be brought on the carpet for this act against a dignified, intelligent fresh young woman such as Condi Rice. He's nothing.

[AmishDude]

Uh, I think you misspelled it. He says "prettty, prettty, prettty". Just trying to help.

[bray]

Ol Grand Wizard Byrdbrain hasn't hanged a Black since that uppity one in Giny 30 yrs ago who looked at a White Woman. Now he has another uppity one he gets to lynch today!! Any Blacks out their paying attention to the DemocRats version of Advancement, NAACP???? Oh yeah, it only is a tool of the Rats.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[NCC-1701]

"..."a former Klansman serving as a senator.
"

"former"?..."

a former Klansman MASQUERADING as a senator.