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Ku Klux Klan Passing out Candy

AlabamaPaul said:
Senator Robert Byrd would have disagreed...
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Senator Byrd had a 100% voting approval record from the NAACP.
How many republicon congressmen could say that?
I'll save you from the research.
The answer is zero.
 
Buck Ewer said:
Senator Byrd had a 100% voting approval record from the NAACP.
How many republicon congressmen could say that?
I'll save you from the research.
The answer is zero.
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Are you denying he was a Klan member?
 
Buck Ewer said:
Senator Byrd had a 100% voting approval record from the NAACP.
How many republicon congressmen could say that?
I'll save you from the research.
The answer is zero.
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That's called sucking up to get votes!
 
Buck Ewer said:
Senator Byrd had a 100% voting approval record from the NAACP.
How many republicon congressmen could say that?
I'll save you from the research.
The answer is zero.
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that's funny.... the NAACP giving a Klansman 100% approval.

what a twisted world we live in...
 
Thrilla said:
that's funny.... the NAACP giving a Klansman 100% approval.

what a twisted world we live in...
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He wasn't in the Klan at any point during his tenure in the House or Senate. And he repudiated those views numerous times.

I love how any time a discussion of racism, the Klan, Jim Crow or any of the stuff that happened 50+ years ago comes up, some conservative just has to start shrieking "Robert Byrd!," whom the vast, vast majority of us never got a chance to vote for or against, as some "I win" button that settles once and for all that liberals are the Real Racists.
 
Kobie said:
He wasn't in the Klan at any point during his tenure in the House or Senate. And he repudiated those views numerous times.

I love how any time a discussion of racism, the Klan, Jim Crow or any of the stuff that happened 50+ years ago comes up, some conservative just has to start shrieking "Robert Byrd!," whom the vast, vast majority of us never got a chance to vote for or against, as some "I win" button that settles once and for all that liberals are the Real Racists.
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It's not Liberals, but rather Progressives that seek to keep pigeonholing people into groups not able to exist without government help...
 
Kobie said:
He wasn't in the Klan at any point during his tenure in the House or Senate. And he repudiated those views numerous times.

I love how any time a discussion of racism, the Klan, Jim Crow or any of the stuff that happened 50+ years ago comes up, some conservative just has to start shrieking "Robert Byrd!," whom the vast, vast majority of us never got a chance to vote for or against, as some "I win" button that settles once and for all that liberals are the Real Racists.
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wow... you took my comment waaaaay to far.

you should consider a vacation from politics... it's making you a lil loopy.
 
Thrilla said:
wow... you took my comment waaaaay to far.

you should consider a vacation from politics... it's making you a lil loopy.
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Chill your bush, dude, I wasn't necessarily referring to you.
 
Objective Voice said:
I'll just let this article from the AmericanThinker speak for itself.

Articles: The Party of Big Government



Naw...I can't let that stand on its own. You so-call limited government cooks need more convincing. So, there's this from the Cato Institute covering the early years of the GWB Administration...spending was well under control back then wasn't it? :roll:



And how about this one for those who continue to argue over federal employees in relation to the size of big federal government.

Big Government? Obama Has 273,000 Fewer Federal Employees Than Reagan | Politicus USA's Archives



Fact is the only Republicans seem to limit when in power is the ability for the other side to get anything of substance done.

Now that that's done, we can get back to talking about how irrelevant the KKK is these days. :cool:...:2wave:
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Affordable Health Care for America Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I rest my case.
 
Gringo allstar said:
That's called sucking up to get votes!
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That's called seeing the error of his youth and denouncing the Klan and everything they ever stood for and apologizing thousands of times for his involvement in the organization.
Byrd also said, in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again.
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You have it backwards ...Senator Byrd denounced the Klan in 1952 ... eleven years before the Voting Rights Act was passed. He actually lost many votes because of his stand against the KLAN.
 
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Thrilla said:
that's funny.... the NAACP giving a Klansman 100% approval.

what a twisted world we live in...
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Not at all. The approval Senator Byrd got from the NAACP was based on his civil rights voting record between 1952 and his death in 2010.
That is a pro-civil rights voting record that spanned six decades.
The twist is the common ignorance of so many republicons who have no inkling of history, and are quick and quite happy to demonstrate that ignorance at the drop of a hat.
 
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Kobie said:
He wasn't in the Klan at any point during his tenure in the House or Senate. And he repudiated those views numerous times.

I love how any time a discussion of racism, the Klan, Jim Crow or any of the stuff that happened 50+ years ago comes up, some conservative just has to start shrieking "Robert Byrd!," whom the vast, vast majority of us never got a chance to vote for or against, as some "I win" button that settles once and for all that liberals are the Real Racists.
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You gona give David Duke a pass?
 
Buck Ewer said:
Not at all. The approval Senator Byrd got from the NAACP was based on his civil rights voting record between 1952 and his death in
2010. That is a pro-civil rights voting record that spanned six decades.
The twist is the common ignorance of so many republicons who have no inkling of history.
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So you label people on here racist that you know nothing about, but the guy who was a kkk grand dragon racist by his own admission you defend? :shock:
 
apdst said:
Right, and the Libbos want smaller, less intrusive government? :roll:
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Liberals not being for small government doesn't mean conservatives are for small government.
 
Gringo allstar said:
So you label people on here racist that you know nothing about, but the guy who was a kkk grand dragon racist by his own admission you defend? :shock:
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A racist kkk grand dragon who changed his ways and was more or less responsible on racial issues during his time in office. If people shouting "shoot the wetbacks" later change their ways, i'll gladly give credit for that. But not before.
 
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