Robert Byrd Sponsors Martin Luther King Tribute

NewsMax ^ | 7/28/05 | Limbacher

[vox humana]

I didn't know that old Byrd was still alive.

[Venerable Bede]

He's up for re-election next year. I hope he loses, but it'll be fun to see how far he goes to make himself look good to the public. This smells of political posturing as bad as Hillary's "move" to the right.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I like that

[FrankR]

SYMBOLISM OVER SUBSTANCE...

[Old Professer]

So now he wants to join the King Klux Klan...

[tessalu]

The FBI should release the files on MLK, so we can take a good look.

[kalee]

And Ted Kennedy is going to oversee the installation of higher guard rails on all bridges in the USA.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

state Republicans promising to make Byrd's Klan past an issue.

Finally.

[DoctorMichael]

C'mon now! He's "growing in office".

[Bar-Face]

"Using other peoples money for forgiveness is not a path to salvation."

Maybe not, but it sure as hell is the path to reelection. Taxpayer money spent on memorials and highways and locks and dams and on and on buy lots of votes. And usually forgiveness from the aggrieved.

[absolootezer0]

Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
long name, takes three signs on the sign posts to fit it all in.

[pankot]

This is about as ironic as Ted Kennedy speaking at a temperance meeting!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Thanks for the assist. I believe you're correct.

I just remembered on a lot of the articles he wrote in the '60's, he signed them Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

[uncitizen]

That reminds me of something funny on the Daily Show after President Reagan died and people were considering renaming things after him.

This guy suggested renaming the Ronald Reagan International Airport the Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan International Airport.

Maybe you had to be there. But it was hilarious.

[katieanna]

Byrd ought to leave well enough alone. Just ride off into the sunset.

[hispanarepublicana]

Isn't this like Ted Kennedy holding swimming lessons?

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

It's to bad that (Republican) Johnny Ramone is no longer with us. I bet he would have given permission to use the Ramone's song "The KKK Took My Baby Away" in an anti-Byrd commercial...

Seriously, I think that the way to use this issue against Byrd is not just to say, "Byrd was in the Klan" but to juxtapose his current Martin Luther King eulogizing persona against his Klan past and ask the questions, who is the real Robert Byrd? Is there a real Robert Byrd? Make him out to be a flip flopper, like Kerry. He'll have a hard time wriggling out of that one.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Ted worships the Mayas

I have Ramone's stuff, it will never die. Imagine what Sheets has planned for himself when he croaks

[Zack Nguyen]

Byrd uses your money to repair his reputation.

Yes, and I resent it. It's not his to give.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I read that the Ramones make more money now than they ever did. I used to teach high school a couple of years ago and was struck by how many of the kids there were Ramones fans.