Posted on 06/28/2019 5:24:02 PM PDT by SJackson
This morning the President issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Robert Byrd:
I was saddened to hear this morning that the people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United States Senate has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd.
Senator Byrd’s story was uniquely American. He was born into wrenching poverty, but educated himself to become an authoritative scholar, respected leader, and unparalleled champion of our Constitution. He scaled the summit of power, but his mind never strayed from the people of his beloved West Virginia. He had the courage to stand firm in his principles, but also the courage to change over time.
He was as much a part of the Senate as the marble busts that line its chamber and its corridors. His profound passion for that body and its role and responsibilities was as evident behind closed doors as it was in the stemwinders he peppered with history. He held the deepest respect of members of both parties, and he was generous with his time and advice, something I appreciated greatly as a young senator.
We take solace in the fact that he is reunited with his wife of nearly 69 years, Erma; and our thoughts and prayers are with their daughters, their grandchildren and great grandchildren, and all the people of West Virginia who loved Robert C. Byrd.
Vice President Biden also took a moment today to speak on the loss of his friend:
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: "As we used to say in my years in the Senate, if you’ll excuse a point of personal privilege here for a moment, a very close friend of mine, one of my mentors -- a guy who was there when I was a 29-year-old kid being sworn into the United States Senate shortly thereafter; a guy who stood in the rain, in a pouring rain, freezing rain outside a church as I buried my daughter and my wife before I got sworn in, Robert C. Byrd. He passed away today. He was the -- we lost the dean of the United States Senate, but also the state of West Virginia lost its most fierce advocate and, as I said, I lost a dear friend.
“Throughout his 51 years, the longest tenure of any member in Congress in the history of the United States, Robert C. Byrd was a tough, compassionate, and outspoken leader and dedicated above all else to making life better for the people of the mountain state -- his state, the state of West Virginia. He never lost sight of home. He may have spent half a century in Washington. But there’s a guy -- if anybody wondered -- he never, never, never, never took his eye of his beloved mountain state. And we shall not -- to paraphrase the poet -- we shall not see his like again. And the Senate is a lesser place for his going."
Bill Clinton told an audience that you had to belong to the Klan back then to get elected
Biden is a mush head, he doesn’t have the quick comeback anymore, not that his comeback was witty and to the point. He was un prepared, knowing he would be attacked from all angles he had no comeback to any of them he just stood their like a sad sack
Hillary said she admired Sanger
Not sure they’re getting away with much, they have to live with their own hypocrisy. If there’s a problem, it’s the hypocrisy of the media, in search of power. Like politicians. But that’s been with us since our founding.
My first reaction she would have been a bit old to interest Bill, but then that South American mummy was a bit young.
And the comeback was so easy, he could note the necessity of working with those you disagree with, the ability of humans to progress(ive), and end with the Byrd example of his boss, President Barak Hussein Obama. If Kamla wanted to attack Barak, go for it.
In the south, perhaps it was an asset. At least being sympathetic. Bill was probably telling the truth.
WV not really the south.
Hard to imagine the Klan being much of a political asset 1940s to 1960s WV. WV had less the 3% black population, even smaller Jewish & small Catholic population. Unless Byrd needed its organizational thuggery for “get-out-the-vote” reasons & implied intimidation. Why would he when he had the UMWA & other unions to do it.
WV is long north to south. Lots of southern sympathy in there southern rural areas. Outside of Oceana was the Smith Plantation which had slaves all during the war. not much interest in the union army attacking Wyoming County. My sister’s house was dup the hill where the slave quarters were on the Smith place.
It seems the Democrat party has a monopoly on retards
I was raised in Kanawha County (Born in 1955), my father’s family is from Raleigh County, mother’s family is from Putnam. Never heard of the Klan, until the 1960s, never heard anyone express sympathy for it. For that matter even from the “old people” I never heard any expressed hostility toward blacks, just a vague notional feeling that people should stick to their own “natural groups” (An expression I heard used.). From the my Baptist fundamentalist oldsters I heard more negative statements about Catholics then blacks. Even that wasn’t that egregious. I am very aware & knowledgeable on WV history ( Even though I have been gone almost 40 years. - back now!)
I have always viewed Byrd as fundamentally a fraud. Al Capp surely based Senator Jack S. Fogbound on Byrd. Used WV’ians for nothing more then staying in office & enriching himself, cohorts & family. Senate Constitution & tradition expert Ha! Kept a pocket US Constitution in his coat pocket! Probably only took it out for PR photo ops. Certain he never read it, given some of the political positions he took.
I was born in Logan lived there for 12 years We were too poor to buy the sheets.
Well, no. Given their origin as the anti-secessionist part of Virginia, no part at all. And Delaware, home of VP Biden was a slave state. Sorry, border state. Impacted not at all by the Emancipation Proclamation. If we speak of slave state Democrats rather than Southern Democrats, Biden was one of them. Facts are so confusing, which is why so many leftists ignore them.
Agree!
You and Faubus seem to have forgotten the 14 Amendment
And Faubus was a leftist extremist who stood with Adlai Stevenson
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