Bless Senator Robert Byrd

[Paranoid Pessimist]

I don't care if he was a KuKlux Klansman in his youth or whatever the knock on him is. Throughout this whole misbegotten war his has been a voice of passionate reason. His speeches will someday be in the Great American Speeches book. Here he goes again.

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0111-24.htm

[liberalnurse]

1. Now what possessed you to

make the bulk of your post the focus of the KKK? Tell me! I really fucking want to know. I believe you wanted to insult him.......

[Paranoid Pessimist]

4. No insult intended. Sorry you took it that way. It's just

one of those things that gets mentioned when his name comes up.

[liberalnurse]

7. No it isn't.

I think you are being coy....."Not".

I think you did that deliberately and with malice, inflammatory intent. I just like to put the facts out on the Board.

Nothing in the common dreams article mentions his past as you have done....That was your choice.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

11. OK, you can believe I'm being malicious. I don't mind.

[FiveGoodMen]

15. No, I've seen many on this board remind us all that some

of Senator Byrd's past isn't peachy.

I think the OP was honestly trying to fend off that attack.

[Atman]

2. The Pope was a Hitler Youth...I think Byrd deserves a pass on his past

He's redeemed himself many times over since then.

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[demosincebirth]

3. Its the wing-nuts that keep on bringing up his youth in the KKK.

The very same who would be in the KKK, if it was 50 years ago.

[liberalnurse]

9. Now you are an insightful DU'er!!!!!!!!!

I :loveya:

[Paranoid Pessimist]

5. Indeed he has. But I don't believe it should never be mentioned.

[liberalnurse]

8. Where can one buy that

"Great Americans Speeches Book" you so passionately identify as "the text"? You obviously place it in very high regard.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

10. I don't know if it exists in harcover book form. Here's a link

I was using it figuratively. I read about it here:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0109-31.htm

and read some of the speeches here:

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

[liberalnurse]

12. Where is the book?

You said in the thread post there was a book.....

If there is not a book, then why mention it? :shrug:

Oh, I get it...if you didn't create a "book figuratively", then you might not get away with a lame attempt to trash the Great Senator Byrd....

I see now. :smoke:

[Paranoid Pessimist]

13. Boy, you're feisty. All I know about the book is the

Common Dreams article I cited here:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0109-31.htm

It says it was a Library of America "package." Maybe it was a CD ROM. It says 1500 pages. Don't know.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

14. Actually, here it is and priced quite reasonably.

It's a real book and I just ordered it. Whatever you wish to think about my motives for my post, Senator Byrd's speeches against the Iraq war are as noble and well phrased as, probably, anything in the book and, if it is ever updated, I hope some or all of them would be included.


http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931082979/thelibraryofamerA

[FiveGoodMen]

16. Ratzinger, though...not so much.

[PATRICK]

6. 400 billion dollars

that could have been used for education. It struck me that it was an education expenditure. A course which Bush/Cheney flunked- but they demand another extension, a make-up and no blemish on their student record. There ARE some children who should be left behind who are too much with us. Our whole income tax is a part of neocon education about reality and it isn't working.

Reality paints the wall large in blood. Why can't Georgie read?